It was high time that Colombo would get its first real art gallery, meaning a building exclusively devoted to contemporary art and not as a fringe event to a creative business.While Barefoot and Paradise Road Galleries remain interesting places, the new Saskia Fernando Gallery is such a perfect place it is hard to know where to begin to describe it!
To start with the space itself: a glorious little building right in Colpetty with a lovely atmosphere, good light and a great little courtyard, that most of the time features work by fast rising star Prageeth Manohansa.
Then there is the rotating exhibition schedule with artworks by well known artists such as Jagath Weerasinghe, Chandragupta Thenuwara, Anoma Wijewardena and Saskia Pringiers combined with the younger generation of Theertha artists such as Thisath Thoradeniya (click on link to see the kOOii blog entry on his power plugs and switch boards).
Each piece is carefully chosen to create a coherence in colour and atmosphere to allow the viewer to see each work as an entity as well as part of a larger (Sri Lankan) story. Owner Saskia Fernando knows how to make sure each work find its place , a talent that she might have gained through DNA as much as through experience. She said she will still remain the curator of her fathers Paradise Road Gallery.
The gallery is open Monday to Saturday 10am to 6pm and by appointment 61 Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka.
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