The wind beneath his brushstrokes
View(s):- Abstract artist Ruwan Prasanna’s latest exhibition Kaze no Iro (Colours of the Wind) is on at the Saskia Fernando Gallery
Kaze no Iro (Colours of the Wind), this abstract artist’s latest exhibition which opened on Thursday at the Saskia Fernando Gallery marks a progression in Prasanna’s practice as he builds on the bright and playful colour palette of his previous solo exhibition ‘Aluyama’.
The artist locates the beauty of the wind as both strange and overwhelming, captured in the rhythmic interplay of colours and layered brushstrokes. Prasanna is sensitive to the way in which the colours in nature fuse together and take shape, lending the wind a tangibility that is familiar.
Born in Galle, Prasanna studied Fine Art at the University of Kelaniya before pursuing a career in advertising. His oeuvre engages the viewer in the simple pleasures. His work is not bounded by trend or tradition; for Prasanna the canvas is a place to explore his own sentiment and to grapple with temporality.
In his 2018 series ‘Komorebi’, the artist represented the transitory play of light and colour in the different stages of the sunset, a motif continued in his Twilight series that experimented with a darker colour palette in representing the contrast of the skies at twilight.
Kaze no Iro represents the amalgamation of Prasanna’s signature haptic, gestural brushwork and lively colour palette, honed through his extensive practice which moves into the examination of transitory motion in the natural realm.
Ruwan Prasanna’s exhibition
will be on display at the
Saskia Fernando Gallery
until November 27, open from
10 a.m to 6 p.m.
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