Mahen Perera's Canvas Attack

This title does not very accurately reflect the work of Mahen Perera, but I thought it would get you reading. Please continue:
Attacking a canvas is what Sri Lankan artist Mahen actually does, but he does it with passion and devotion, not in any blind rage.
Perera graduated from Singapore's La Salle, which already sets him apart from most of his contemporaries who -- flogging themselves through four years of domestic institutional drudgery-- lack the exposure and inspiration an open art environment brings, and as a result produce limittless amounts of blackened human shapes on oversized canvasses.
Perera is a researcher. He looks for what is real in his paintings. The pretty and decorative realistic pictures he originally painted, had to go. By scrubbing clean his canvasses, erasing the unwanted prettyness, he stumbled upon a real emotion. His canvasses became sculptures, intense and beautiful and ....disturbing.
Time Lost & Found is the title of this delightful exhibition.Please do yourself a favor and go and see his work at Barefoot.

here is a peek
read more about Mahen Perera here and here, or here