PRAGEETH RATHNAYAKE
FIGURES ASSEMBLED
PRAGEETH RATHNAYAKE
19 JULY 2018 - 08 AUGUST 2018
2 ALFRED HOUSE ROAD COLOMBO 3 T 2582162, 2556563 E art@paradiseroad.lk
FIGURES ASSEMBLED One has to accept being a human being before one is an artist. ‘Figures Assembled’ is my fifth solo exhibition of paintings. We, who dream of an endless orgasm of overconsumption, have failed as human beings. It is a responsibility and a duty to create even a minimal space such as this. In a moment where even people are turned into things, we are in a process of becoming post-people even as we are becoming a collective that is ‘solitary although together’. We don’t change the system but the system changes us. This exhibition comes to you against the traumatic background of this deadly moment. Come fly with the other having recognized even a minimal form of human feeling. Let us displace the identity of competition to a collective identity. PRAGEETH RATHNAYAKE JULY 2018
Figures Assembled XVI, 2018, Acrylic on board, 18 cm x 16 cm
Figures Assembled XII, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled XI, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled XV, 2018, Acrylic on wood, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled XX, 2018, Acrylic on board, 120 cm x 120 cm
Figures Assembled XIX, 2018, Acrylic on board, 120 cm x 120 cm
Figures Assembled X, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled II, 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 120 cm x 120 cm
Figures Assembled III, 2018, Acrylic on canvas board, 120 cm x 120 cm
Figures Assembled XXV, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled XXIV, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled XXIII, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled XXII, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Black Moon, 2018, Acrylic on board & ceramic, 22 cm x 22 cm
Butterfly Girl, 2018, Acrylic on board & ceramic, 22 cm x 22 cm
Male Gaze, 2018, Acrylic on paper, 120 cm x 150 cm
Decision, 2018, Acrylic on board, 22 cm x 22 cm
Landscape, 2018, Acrylic on board & ceramic, 22 cm x 22 cm
Phallic Form I, 2018, Acrylic on board, 40 cm x 20 cm
Phallic Form III, 2018, Acrylic on board, 40 cm x 20 cm
Phallic Form II, 2018, Acrylic on board, 40 cm x 20 cm
Figures Assembled XVIII, 2018, Acrylic on board, 120 cm x 120 cm
Figures Assembled I, 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 120 cm x 120 cm
Figures Assembled XIII, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled XXVI, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled IV, 2018, Acrylic on wood, 45 cm x 45 cm
Figures Assembled V, 2018, Acrylic on wood, 45 cm x 45 cm
Figures Assembled XIV, 2018, Acrylic on wood, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled XXVIII, 2018, Acrylic on canvas board, 90 cm x 90 cm
Figures Assembled XXVII, 2018, Acrylic on canvas board, 60 cm x 60 cm
Figures Assembled XXI, 2018, Acrylic on board, 120 cm x 120 cm
Figures Assembled XVII, 2018, Acrylic on board, 120 cm x 120 cm
Figures Assembled IX, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled VII, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled VI, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
Figures Assembled VIII, 2018, Acrylic on board, 30 cm x 30 cm
PRAGEETH RATHNAYAKE b. 1976 Education 2017
MFA - Present Student, University of Kelaniya.
2000
BFA special (1st Class) University of the Visual & Performing Arts.
1997
Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts.
Solo Exhibition 2014
Romantic Crisis, Exhibition of Paintings, Lionel Wendt Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2011
Identity Crisis, Exhibitions of Paintings, Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2008
Life Connection, Exhibition of Paintings, Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2006
The Text, Exhibition of Paintings, Lionel Wendt Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Group Exhibition 2017
Human Rights, Art Exhibition, J.D.A Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2017
Untitled Art Exhibition, Walawwa, Athul Kotte, Sri Lanka
2017
State Art Festival, J.D.A Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2016
Untitled Art Exhibition, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2016
Untitled Art Exhibition, J.D.A Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2016
Untitled Art Exhibition, University of Peradeniya, Kandy.
2016
Collective Identity, Jayasooriya Centre, Sri Lanka
2011
Reflection, Art Exhibition, Havana, Cuba.
2011
Sri Lankan Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2009
Expressions of Independence, Art Exhibition J.D.A Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2008
Expressions of Independence Art Exhibition J.D.A Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2008
Sri Lankan Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2008
State Art Festival, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2007
Nawa Kalakaruwo, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2007
Exhibition of Art, Harrold Pieris Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2005
State Art Festival, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2005
Tsunami Fund Raising Exhibition, Faculty of Visual Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2005
Exhibition of Temple Painting Copies, Faculty of Visual Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2004
Ruhunu Aruna, Exhibition of Visual Arts, BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2003
All Island Competition in Art Creation, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2002
Transition Exhibition of Visual Arts, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2002
Young Contemporaries, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2002
State Art Festival, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2001
State Art Festival, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2001
VAFA Annual Art Exhibition, VAFA Gallery, Sri Lanka.
2001
Visual Art Exhibition, Town Hall, Sri Lanka.
2001
Young Contemporaries, National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2000
Visual Art Exhibition, Town Hall, Sri Lanka.
2 ALFRED HOUSE ROAD COLOMBO 3 T 2582162, 2556563 E art@paradiseroad.lk