Chandraguptha Thenuwara Sri Lankan , b. 1960
36 1/4 x 60 1/4 in
Created in the year following the year-long lockdown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thenuwara’s exhibition was a meditation out of the artist’s studio in his home. The effects on the artist of a year spent in and out of lockdown seeps through in the particularly intimate and vulnerable quality of his work.
Through metaphors of blinds that partially obscure the view the artist probes the viewer to read between the lines and question their sociopolitical truths. In BLINDS: Chinese, the artist contemplates on the increasing Chinese influence that is permeating Sri Lankan politics and economy.
Through Thenuwara’s deft marriage of the figurative and the abstract, the painting merges the foreground and the background leaving the viewer confounded on whether the figures in the painting have become part of the abstraction or if they are merely concealed beneath it.Exhibitions
Blinds | 2021Join our mailing list
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