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| Sunday, 12 March 2006 |
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Reflecting individuality Floating feminine figures... Pleasing colours to your eyes... Almost makes you feel like you're floating... Tilake Abeysinghe commenced his professional carrier as a painter and a sculpture in the sixties, following his graduation from Acdamia di Bella Arte in Milan. He studied art under Domenico Cantatore and Marino Marino in Italy. Yet, Tilake Abeysinghe's art is no understudy to any artist dead or alive. His paintings and sculptures reflect his inner creativity and individuality.
'I do not pre meditate about what I am going to paint, it just flows on to the canvas with my own feelings.' the 77 year old master artist says. With more than seventy one-man exhibitions to his credit both in Sri Lanka and abroad, Tilake has won many an award, among which the prestigious "Chevalier of the order of Merit" presented by the Government of Italy in recognition of his service to the world of Art, figures prominent. In recognition of his immense contribution to the realm of fine arts, the Government of Sri Lanka established the Tilake Abeysinghe Foundation in 2001 through a special enactment in Parliament. A fusion of eastern ethos and a western idiom characterizes the work of one of modern Asia's masters. Hailing from Karathota, in the deep south of Sri Lanka Tilake is essentially a postmodernist, who has evolved a poetic language of human form in his canvases, which takes on many aspects; the spiritual and the nude, figure prominently portraying his deep sense of appreciation to life. Today is the last day of Tilake Abeysinghe's, early and latest painting exhibiton at Finomenal Space Gallerie d'Art de Colombo. |
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