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Artist Statement:
Exhibition of painting-
Sanjeewa Kumara
24 December 2008 – 14 January
2009
10 am – Midnight daily
PARADISE ROAD GALLERIES
2 Alfred House Road
Colombo 3
My art is Fun and I prefer to
call my works ‘pictures’
rather than paintings.
My pictures reveal the radical
ambiguity of fantasy. The
uncanny—the fantastic—the
marvelous—the hesitation—the
supernatural- the uncertainty
is very important to my work.
The Language of my visual
texts is where (y)our desire
is placed. Mixing various with
popular and unpopular
historical elements combining
them as visual pastiche, I
tries to synchronize them into
an own, unique visual language
which I would like called ‘Non
western-western art’.
I just wanted to be free.
Freedom is of enormous
importance to an artist as
well as to my [art] work.
Sanjeewa Kumara
16.12.2008
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Artist Exhibitions:
Projects
2004 ' Given Pepper got
Ginger ' to be completed 2008.
2004 ' Candy Cousins ' works
exhibited Den Hague,Enschede
in Netherlands and Paradise
Road Galleries, Colombo, Sri
Lanka in 2003 .
2004 ' Enjoy! Enjoy ' Mural at
the Theater Zwembad de
Regents. Den Hague. The
Netherlands.
Solo Exhibitions [selected]
2008 Paradise Road
Galleries...
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Artist Galleries:
Paradise Road Galleries
2 Alfred House Road, Colombo3
Sri Lanka...
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Artist Reviews:
Still Lives of the Imagination
The double headed hybrid
animals in strange bright
colors, a human body growing
out of a six legged elephant
which seem to be floating in
air? Or is it water? In
Sanjeewa ’s world questions
burn brighter than answers,
riddles are not there to be
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Sanjeewa Kumara Biography:
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Painting Oil
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Sanjeewa Kumara -(1971) is visiting lecturer for visual art and art history at Kelaniya University in Sri Lanka. He prefers to call his work ‘pictures’ rather than ‘paintings’. His six legged dancing elephants and other ambiguous animals and fantasy shapes appear from y(our) desire to reveal the mystery of life.
“My art is Fun. I prefer to label my art as ‘non-western western art’’, because my art world reflects trans-cultural hybrid images. ‘By mixing various popular and unpopular historical elements combining them as visual pastiche, I try to synchronize them into my own unique style".
Sanjeewa holds a arts MFA from the Netherlands and had many solo and group exhibitions, inside and outside Sri Lanka
Sanjeewa Kumara
Born 1971 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Education
2003-Masters of Fine Arts [Interdisciplinary research visual arts and media]. Dutch Art
Institute in Enschede. The Netherlands.
2001-Diploma [Painting] AKI Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede, The Netherlands.
1999-Bachelor of Fine Arts [painting], Institute of Aesthetic studies in Colombo,
University In Kalaniya, Sri Lanka.
2005 to date Visiting Lecturer, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Projects
2004 ' Given Pepper got Ginger ' to be completed 2008.
2004 ' Candy Cousins ' works exhibited Den Hague,Enschede in Netherlands and
Paradise Road Galleries, Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2003 .
2004 ' Enjoy! Enjoy ' Mural at the Theater Zwembad de Regents. Den Hague. The
Netherlands.
Solo Exhibitions [selected]
2007 Paradise Road Galleries in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2006 Paradise Road Galleries in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2005 Paradise Road Galleries in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2004 Head office in Prins Claus Fund in The Hague, Netherlands.
Villa De Bank in Enschede, The Netherlands.
2003 Paradise Road Galleries in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Gallery Art Korner in The Hague, Netherlands.
2002 Paradise Road Galleries in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2000 Galerie De Waagh in Oldenzaal, The Netherlands.
D e Tjongerschans in Heerenveen, The Netherlands.
1999 Paradise Road Galleries, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Gallery Mountcastle in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
1996 Alliance Francaise in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Group Exhibitions [selected]
2008 ‘Expressions of Independence’, The Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France
2007 ‘Where, What, Who, When and How’, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2006 'feb' Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2005 Sri Lankan and Australian artists Exhibition, The cross Art Projects,
Sydney,Australia
2004 CUT & MIX Finomenal Space ,Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2003 NOT HOME SICK Villa De Bank and Rijksmuseum in Twenthe, The
Netherlands.
2001 'Visva Karma', Head office Hivos in Den Hague, The Netherlands. Organized
by Gate Foundation in Amsterdam.
Galerie-Beeldentuin-Kunstuitleen Molenhof in Weert, The Netherlands.
De Witte Kamer Gallery in Delden, The Netherlands.
'Art Affairs' Galierie fur Internationale kunst in Starzach, Germany.
2000 Katholieke Universiteit in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
1998 'Moods and Modes', Fifty years of Sri Lanka independence, National Art
Gallery, Sri Lanka.
Second International Artist Camp, The Village Hotel in Habarana, Sri Lanka.
Work Shops and Residence
2004, Triangle Artists Workshop in NewYork, U.S A.
2003 7 th International Artist Camp, The Village Hotel in Habarana, Sri Lanka.
2002 ' Visva Karma', Kulture forum in Rheine , Germany
Grants
2001 Grant for study abroad, The President's Fund Sri Lanka
1999 Grant for travel to Netherlands, Prins Claus Fund in The Hague, Netherlands
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