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    This exhibition combines Jagath Weerasinghe's paintings, drawings, and installations to philosophically explore the transitory nature of existence. His works combine narratives of tradition, social norms, and change. Weerasinghe contrasts his painting "Unfinished Landscape" about those crossing waters during the Sri Lankan civil war with drawings that deconstruct traditional forms, confronting his role as an archaeologist and society's resistance to change. His drawings also depict a more romantic, poetic side created during travels that represent a new stage in his life.

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    This exhibition combines Jagath Weerasinghe's paintings, drawings, and installations to philosophically explore the transitory nature of existence. His works combine narratives of tradition, social norms, and change. Weerasinghe contrasts his painting "Unfinished Landscape" about those crossing waters during the Sri Lankan civil war with drawings that deconstruct traditional forms, confronting his role as an archaeologist and society's resistance to change. His drawings also depict a more romantic, poetic side created during travels that represent a new stage in his life.

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    This exhibition combines Jagath Weerasinghe's paintings, drawings, and installations to philosophically explore the transitory nature of existence. His works combine narratives of tradition, social norms, and change. Weerasinghe contrasts his painting "Unfinished Landscape" about those crossing waters during the Sri Lankan civil war with drawings that deconstruct traditional forms, confronting his role as an archaeologist and society's resistance to change. His drawings also depict a more romantic, poetic side created during travels that represent a new stage in his life.

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    WITH OR WITHOUT ME/ANING

    JAGATH WEERASINGHE
    WITH OR WITHOUT ME/ANING

    JAGATH WEERASINGHE

    30.06.16 - 22.07.16

    With or Without Me/aning combines Jagath Weerasinghe’s painting,


    drawing and installation work as a philosophical expression of the
    transitory nature of being. In perhaps his least political works to date
    the series combines narratives of tradition, social norms and most of all
    change. The relevance of each work from their inherent meaning to their
    relation with one another presents a new dimension in Weerasinghe’s
    oeuvre. His painting Unfinished Landscape, based on the story of
    those crossing the waters in Nandikadal at the very final stages of the
    war, contrasts with his drawings of deconstructed traditional form and
    elements thereby extracting and confronting both his own role as an
    archaeologist alongside society’s resistance to change in the history of Sri
    Lanka. Weerasinghe’s drawings expose his romantic, poetic side; often
    completed during his travels, they become delicate, erotic depictions
    created in transit and coincidentally representative of a new stage in his life.

    Saskia Fernando
    Unfinished Landscape, 2015, Acrylic on Canvas, 155 x 168cm
    A Premonition of a Kind I, 2016, Acrylic Pen on Canvas, 50.5 x 50.5cm
    A Premonition of a Kind II, 2016, Acrylic Pen on Canvas, 50.5 x 50.5cm
    Untitled I, 2013, Ball Point on Paper, 25 x 25cm
    Untitled II, 2013, Ball Point on Paper, 25 x 25cm
    Untitled III, 2013, Ball Point on Paper, 25 x 25cm
    Without Me V, 2014, Acrylic Pen on Paper, 25 x 25cm
    Without Me VI, 2014, Ink n on Paper, 25 x 25cm
    Without Me I, 2016, Acrylic and Acrylic Pen on Paper, 39 x 30cm
    Without Me II, 2016, Acrylic Pen on Paper, 30.5 x 40.5cm
    Without Me IV, 2013, Ink on Paper, 30.5 x 40.5cm
    Without Me III, 2016, Acrylic Pen on Paper, 56 x 76cm
    Without Me VIII, 2015, Acrylic Pen on Paper, 56 x 76cm
    Without Me IX, 2016, Acrylic Pen on Paper, 56 x 76cm
    Without Me X, 2016, Acrylic Pen on Paper, 56 x 76cm
    Cone, 2016, Dolomite Casting with Pigment, 76 x 38 x 38cm
    Fence Post, 2016, Dolomite Casting with Pigment, 155 x 38 x 38cm
    Road Block, 2016, Dolomite Casting with Pigment, 97 x 97 x 50cm
    Balustrade, 2016, Dolomite Casting with Pigment, 114 x 199 x40cm
    JAGATH WEERASINGHE b. 1954

    Education

    1991 Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting, American University, Washington


    D.C.
    1988 Conservation of Rock Art, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, USA
    1985 Conservation of Wall Paintings, International Center for the Scientific Study
    and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)
    1981 Bachelors of Fine Arts. Honors in Painting (Second Class Upper Pass)
    Mnor: Sculpture, Institute of Aesthetic Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri
    Lanka

    Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

    2015 Paradise Road Galleries, Colombo, Sri Lanka


    2014 Decorated, Breese Little, London, United Kingdom
    2014 Decorated, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
    2009 Shiva Nataraja, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
    2006 The Reading Room: Thousand Shivas and Thousand Mikes, Singapore Bienale
    curated byFumio Nanjo, Sharmini Perira, Eugene Tan and Roger McDonald,
    Singapore
    2005 The Celestial Underwear, Phenomenal Space Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
    2004 Urban and the Individual, Group Show, Phenomenal Space Gallery, Colombo
    2003 Paradise Road Galleries, Colombo, Sri Lanka
    2000 (My) Inability of Painting Woman’, Gallery 706, Colombo, Sri Lanka
    1997 Recent Paintings, Paradise Road Galleries, Colombo, Sri Lanka
    1997 Yantragala and the round pilgrimage, Heritage Gallery, Colombo, Sri
    Lanka
    1995 Lionel Wendt Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
    1992 Anxiety, National Gallery of Art, Colombo, Sri Lanka
    Publications
    41 Horton Place, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka | T +94117429010
    www.saskiafernandogallery.com

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