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| Sunday, 09 April 2006 |
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Sentiments and sensations by Ranga Chandraratne An exhibition of Visual Art by Koralegedara Pushpakumara was held at Barefoot Gallery Colombo 3 from March 23 at 7.30 p.m. and will go on till April 2.
Puskpakumara is one of Sri Lanka's successful, modern young painters. In the late 1990s when Pushpa started painting his subject matter depicted political and social events, this was the time when 'freedom of - expression' had a coming out as it were, and one of the first avenues to freely embrace this, was art. He believes that some of the most exciting art was created at this time.
Making a work of art is the surest and most immediate way of registering the sentiments and sensations of an individual who is made frustrated and dismal in the face of political or personal adversities. The painting or the sculpture is the vehicle for this activity of registering or recording the pain and 'history', before it gets normalised and de radicalised. (Jagath Weerasinghe, khojworkshop. com)
Pushpakumara's art is "a visual diary of my everyday life, my experiences and existence". His focus at present now centres around his three year old son. Using tubes of colour directly on to the canvas, the paintings capture the feeling of a little child playing with paints. Consequently, the paintings are full of playfulness and spontaneity and introduce objects for the first time: Toys, a photograph, the 'things' his child picks up and explores. Father and son paint together, sometimes. |
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