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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 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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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Galleries for Sanjeewa Kumara:
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Paradise Road Galleries
2 Alfred House Road, Colombo3
Sri Lanka
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