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Artist Exhibitions:
2008- “DREAM FACTORY” Drawings
Exhibition at the Alliance
Françoise De Colombo – SRI
LANKA
2008- “THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF
THE PERFECTLY ORDINARY” Art
Exhibition at the Mieke
Kooistra’s Residence Place in
Colombo - SRI LANKA
2007- “THE DREAM FACTORY” Art
Exhibition at the Barefoot
Gallery in Colombo - SRI LANKA
2005- “MY ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
2008- “PANAMA” TV INTERVIEW
PROGRAMME, Young Asia
Television Network, TNL TV
2008- “THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF
THE PERFECTLY ORDINARY” Friday
Life, Page C / DAILY MIRROR
NEWS PAPER/ May 30 –MIEKE
KOOISTRA
2008- “SPRINGING OUT OF THE
ORDINARY” Art scope, Page 14 /
DAILY NEWS PAPER/June 04 –
MIEKE KOOISTRA
2008- “DREAM FACTORY” ...
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Collections:
The Paradise Road Collection,
Colombo - SRI LANKA
The Barefoot Gallery
Collection, Colombo - SRI
LANKA
The Serandib Gallery
Collection, Colombo - SRI
LANKA
Mrs. Shehara de Silva
Collection - SRI LANKA
Mr. Hans Monhemius Collection
- SRI LANKA
Mr. Ivan Robinson Collection -
SRI LANKA
Mr. / Mrs. Anneke Hihermann
Collection – SRI LANKA
Mr. Yves Alain ...
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Commissions:
2004 - Project on the
Contraction of Terra Cotta
Muriel at the BROTHERS of
CHARITY “NISANSALA” Ja-Ela,
SRI LANKA
2002 - Commissioned by the
CENTER FOR SOCIETY AND
RELIGION to Create a “MONUMENT
FOR PEACE” Fr. MAICAL RODRIGUO
MEMORIAL PLACE in Memory of
The Victims of Political
Violence and Human Rights...
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Artist Statement for Vajira Gunawardena
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By facing straight to the culture, the series of art works I have done was always connected to my “Daily Life”, which is an ultimate result of my personal feelings springs out from the social, political structure of modern life.
I use my own life and that of people around him as a point of departure to explore society’s obsession with matetarialism, instant gratification and our inability to confront the growing of human insensibility in the world that surrounds us. "My work focuses on my need to intersect body and place, memory and fact to re-examine human histories, cultural conditions, and events." I create art in order to document issues that are important to me. I respond to subject matter that range from daily occurrences in the media to more mundane aspects of life that are often taken for granted. I am interested in topical issues from the political and culture spheres, as well as social conditions that comment on human existence.
I work instinctively and intuitively. Spontaneity and experimentation play key roles in my creative process and I continuously edit my work until a unified composition and narrative emerges. Over the course of time, the pairing of disparate images and text collected from magazines, old children’s books, encyclopedias, pamphlets, brochures, flyers and other such sources of information, helps me recontextualize the ideas of various social behavioral patterns. What are seen in my creations are exceptionally disfigured human figures, heroes with exceptionally enlarged sexual organs, Sri Lankan materialistic fantasy, new individualism, market force, television, Consumer Goods and the figures of popular commodities in the urban life as chosen Signs with Text and word of commercial myth; I make an attempt to express my emotions of the contemporary social environment. The presentation is going to be as a visual diary. It depicts the external struggle of a contemporary Sri Lankan personality who was born in this culture.
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