Chandraguptha Thenuwara Sri Lankan , b. 1960
BLINDS: PASS COUP, 2021
Mixed Media on Aluminium
153 x 275 cm
60 1/4 x 108 1/4 in
60 1/4 x 108 1/4 in
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In his characteristic style that combines text and humor in his paintings Thenuwara plays on the Sinhala word for Easter, Paasku. BLINDS: PASS COUP hints at the incidents which led...
In his characteristic style that combines text and humor in his paintings Thenuwara plays on the Sinhala word for Easter, Paasku. BLINDS: PASS COUP hints at the incidents which led to the downfall of the ruling party following the easter attacks in 2019. Through metaphors of blinds that partially obscure the view and the insistence that the painting isn’t merely an expressionistic work, the artist probes the viewer to read between the lines and question their sociopolitical truths.
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