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| Gunatillake |
A book certainly is more than its title, more than its contents: it also is a material object with which we have an intellectual and physical relationship.
Holding a book, leafing through its pages is part of the reading experience. We all remember the smells of paper and ink of our first readings. The stories we discovered as children are both memories of the mind and hands, eyes and heart.
Kingsley Gunatillake explores this emotional and artistic dimension in ‘Untitled book’, an exhibition/installation that will be opened at the Alliance Française de Colombo on October 8 at 6 p.m. by French ambassador Michel Lummaux. Gunatillake reminds us books have been persecuted, because of the questions they raised. Books have been forbidden, hidden, torn apart, burnt, ...
The installation is held at the Alliance Française within the framework of “Lire en fête”, an annual celebration of reading taking place in France and in many countries.
Gunatillake has held over 30 exhibitions and won many national and international awards. His paintings are included in several collections across the world such as the Presidential collection of contemporary art, Sri Lanka.
A graduate from the College of Fine Arts Colombo (1978), he went on to do his higher education at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, (1996). At present he is the chairman of the Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts (VAFA), and a visiting lecturer at the University of Visual and Performing Arts and University of Kelaniya.
The exhibition continues throughout the month on weekdays from 9 - 6 p.m and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. |
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