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T.V. Santhosh — Accounts Payable II
T.V. Santhosh

Accounts Payable II

2010

Accounts Payable II by T.V. Santhosh is a large-scale diptych rendered in oil on canvas, characteristic of the Indian artist's unflinching engagement with media imagery, violence, and spectacle. Santhosh appropriates and repaints imagery sourced from news broadcasts and mass media, layering photorealistic figures with a cold, detached precision that implicates both the viewer and global systems of power. The work's divided format amplifies a sense of fragmentation and rupture, inviting reflection on complicity, consumption, and the moral debts accrued through collective indifference.

Medium
oil on canvas, in 2 parts

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

October 6, 2016

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T.V. Santhosh, Accounts Payable II, 2010

Accounts Payable II by T.V. Santhosh is a large-scale diptych rendered in oil on canvas, characteristic of the Indian artist's unflinching engagement with media imagery, violence, and spectacle. Santhosh appropriates and repaints imagery sourced from news broadcasts and mass media, layering photorealistic figures with a cold, detached precision that implicates both the viewer and global systems of power. The work's divided format amplifies a sense of fragmentation and rupture, inviting reflection on complicity, consumption, and the moral debts accrued through collective indifference.

Medium
oil on canvas, in 2 parts
Year
2010
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Dark Mood, Dark Palette, Unsettling Mood, Male Artist, Contemporary Artist, Dark Tones, Diptych, War Imagery, Political Commentary, 21st Century, Political Art, Indian Artist, Hyperrealism, Figurative, Oil on Canvas

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