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| Sunday, 12 February 2006 |
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Arts Solo exhibition of watercolour paintings A solo exhibition of watercolour paintings by Palitha Gunasinghe, the award winning artist and stamp designer, will be held at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery, Guildford Crescent, Colombo 7, from February 16-20. Palitha Gunasinghe who has already displayed an astounding mastery over the medium has won awards at many a national and international art and stamp designing competitions. Among them are the State Award for the coveted prize for the Best Watercolour Painting in Year 2003, Sri Lanka Art Society's 116th Art Exhibition - Best Watercolour Painting in 2004, and the Presidential Award for the Best Art - watercolour in SHILPA 2004. The stamp he designed for the Sarvodaya Movement in 1983 marked his initiation on stamp designing and subsequently he went to the Netherlands and Belgium to perfect his art. As of today, he has secured many awards and accolades, both local and international through submission of paintings and stamp designs. He has designed more than 80 postage stamps so far on different themes. He was the architect of the stamp designed to commemorate the Olympic games held in Seoul, South Korea in 1988. His watercolour paintings have been appreciated and highly acclaimed by many a foreign connoisseur from countries as varied as England, France, United States, Canada, Australia, Japan etc. The Fukuoka International Gift Show - 2005, in Japan was his recent participation in advertising international exhibition. The special quality underlying his work is the unusual observation of the sheer beauty in our immediate environment, and the past which is more or less elusive to the uninitiated eye of the ordinary person. Ordinary things that we see in the environment such as fauna and flora, misty mountains, when recreated through his brush evoke lovely feelings in us. We feel as if we go through the tangible perception of a cool shade of a forest grove and the scorching heat of the high noon sun. The miserable and hopeless existence of the poor folk and the vignettes of their real life always create an idolize experience in us when represented on paper in the form of watercolour paintings. Palitha's fifth solo exhibition of paintings comprising a selection of about forty titles will be held at Lionel Wendt Art Gallery from February 16-20, 2006, and will be opened for the public from 8.00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m. daily. "Dance-floor Jazz" from Goethe Institut Dance Floor Jazz will be held on Feb. 13 at 7.30pm at Goethe Institut. There will be a workshop in collaboration with H2O on Feb. 14. The tour is organised by the Goethe-Institut to promote a different kind of jazz, which in the last few years has seemingly got its label as "Dance floor-Jazz". As it appears to be a fusion type of free jazz, underground, and involving electronics and DJ-skills, the German Cultural Institute proposes two approaches: a concert in the Barefoot- garden and an interaction with Srilankan musicians and DJs - possibly with a jam session too - at the H2O- discotheque at Union Place, Colombo. The artistes are Reiner Winterschladen (trumpet), Alois kott (bass, electronics), Peter E. Eisold (drums, electronics) and Vincent Graf Schlippenbach (DJ). Tickets are available at Barefoot and at the German Cultural Institut at 39, Gregory's Road, Colombo 07. For more information, contact Goethe Institut. ISTA High School Theatre Festival The Overseas School of Colombo will host the International Schools Theatre Association's (ISTA) High School Theatre Festival for the Asian Region from February 16 to 18. The members of the OSC's International Thespian Society chose Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre from a list of topics suggested by ISTA. Boal developed Forum Theatre to discuss and resolve social and political issues within his native Brazil. We have entitled the Festival "Tsunami: The Politics of Aid" and will be exploring how best to overcome politics and bureaucracy to deliver aid quickly and efficiently to those in need. The 3-day Festival will involve high school students from International Schools in Geneva, Jerusalem, Beirut, Oman and Kuala Lumpur working on the Forum Theatre with the local Colombo school community. With the Forum Theatre, ensemble and master classes, the participants will also enjoy special performances on February 16, a Sri Lankan Dance and Drumming performance by Ravi Bandu and on Friday a Warwick University's Codpiece Theatre featuring OSC's Alumni. These performances are open to the public and tickets are for sale at Rs. 300. Saturday evening's performance will be a final piece conceived by the festival participants under the direction of the ISTA staff. Tickets to this special performance, as well as tickets to the additional ISTA events will be available to the public for Rs. 300 at OSC's Administration Office, Pelawatte, Tel: 2784920. All proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the OSC's Tsunami Relief Fund. |
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