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| Sunday, 23 January 2005 |
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Samadhi Chintana - 4 Samadhi Chintana - 4, the fourth in a series of painting exhibitions by Chandana Ranaweera of Alawwa will have its inauguration at the Gallery of the Alliance Francaise de Kandy, on January 28.
Chandana has adopted mixed media, namely, brush painting, penning, patching and etching on paper. His paintings cannot be categorised as abstracts. They are neither modern nor traditional but a combination of all forms. This is the new evolution of the artistic career of Chandana, due to the constant involvement in exercise of art during the last two decades. Sanda Langa Maranaya Kaushalya Fernando's directorial debut Sanda Langa Maranaya, the Sinhala version of Blood Wedding will go on boards again on February 6 at 6.30 p.m. at the Lionel Wendt Memorial Theatre.
Sanda Langa Maranaya basically is a love story, which revolves around three youthful characters. The production style of the play is semi-musical-surrealistic-type that blends intense acting on stage with choreographed movements, music and songs, vivid lighting and costumes. The play is able to address the intellect of the audience with a strong sense of aesthetics. In short it is a meaningful entertainment for the whole family. The professional theatre group of Play House-Kotte (which was founded by Somalatha Subasinghe in 1979 to promote theatre in Sri Lanka) takes part in the leading and supporting roles in addition to veteran stage actors such as Lucien Bulathsinghala and Somalatha Subasinghe. Sanda Lanka Maranaya, was very well received by the audience when it had its premiere performance in November last year. The February 6 performance is organised courtesy Anoja Weerasinghe's Abhinaya School of Acting. Anoja's objective is to promote good theatre in Sri Lanka by way of organising performances in and around Colombo. The income generated will be utilised for the benefit of the students of her acting school. Chamila Peries, Wishvajith Gunasekera and Prasanna Mahagamage, the new generation performing artistes, who are groomed at the Play House in Kotte, give flesh and blood to the three main youthful characters that are wrapped up in the triangle of love. Other characters are played by Lucian Bulathsinghala, Somalatha Subasinghe, Nadee Kammallaweera, Suresh Fernando, Nayomi Gunasiri, Lakmini Seneviratne, Sharmaine Gunaratne, Mayura Kanchana, Sanjaya Hettiarachchi, Champika Kannangara, Ishara Wickramasena, Thilokanee Gunasekera, and a number of newcomers to the national theatre groomed at Play House, Kotte. The play is translated into Sinhala by Kaushalya Fernando and Nadee Kammellaweera. Nadeeka Guruge composes music for the play. Choreography is by Chandana Aluthge. Namal Jayasinghe creates stage sets and properties while make-up is by Sumedha Hewawitharana. Stage Management is handled by Aruna Jayasena. Art of seduction Sathsara Ilangasinghe, a third year student of the Department of Art and Sculpture, Institute of Aesthetic Studies, University of Kelaniya, will be holding an unusual exhibition, titled 'Seduction' at the Lionel Wendt from January 28 to 31.
He says anyone or anything, in any moment, can be seduced. Though in primitive society, the primeval productive acts (economical, social, psychological and artistic) all happened by force or by order or by assignment, in modern society, people are seduced into activity. Seduction, today, he says, may be very simple things like female body and points out that even an advertisement for cement needs to show female legs. 'Knowingly or unknowingly we all are seduced.' Commenting on the art, Sathsara says, 'Seduction' presents many important development. The separation in structure and also new producing system have made my artistic creations, especially the modern art. Human forms are produced with detached shapes using colourful mixed colours with quick brush work on square shaped drawing surface. The picture has been highlighted by using a broad dark back-ground. In one of my creations the Sigiri goddess bears a 'kadupul flower' or the lotus Naga, which represents the symbol of 'Seduction'. Detaching the European and Asian drawing style but with the influence of both of them, 'kadupul flower' has been used together with Sigiri goddess, which is highly artistic than the lively 'kadupul flower'. This creativity intensifies the idea of Seduction. The awakening An exhibition of photographs, paintings and drawings by Kesara Ratnavibhushana and P. T. Andrew de Silva, titled "Two Youths, Two Contexts and Their Awakening," that got under way at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery on January 21 will conclude today. The title of the exhibition refers to recent events in personal histories of the artists. Kesara has been reading Art History at the University of East London for the last two years, and Andrew is a recent degree graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Andrew, mostly brought up in the UK, is presently visiting Sri Lanka (the land of his ancestors) and expresses through photography his joyous reactions to the local surroundings. Kesara has spent many hours traversing the streets of London photographing the city's eclectic urban makeup. His intricate drawings, done mostly whilst whiling away long winterly nights, are what he calls "castles in the sky". Like his drawings, his acrylic paintings are his 'flights of fancy' into a great cosmic unknown - a science fiction universe in which cities float and the scale is immense. |
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The paintings on display are mainly based on the themes of Buddhism.
Accordingly scenes of devotees offering alms to the Buddha and his
disciples, offering flowers and incenses and burning scented oil lamps,
gods venerating the Buddha etc are depicted on those paintings. Some works
display miracles of the Buddha and his disciples.
The play is, one of the famous trilogy based upon Spanish society,
written by Federico Garcia Lorca in response to a newspaper article
concerning a local murder in rural Spain. Garcia Lorca is probably the
most celebrated dramatist in Spain and, according to theatre critiques and
academics, one of the most poetic playwrights of the 20th Century.
Though the exhibition portrays human forms, which the artist describes
an 'Special creations in modern art', the title he says refers to how
society is constantly seduced in all aspects of life.
