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The 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2014
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The Executive Committee of the 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale
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Fukuoka City Board of Education
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Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities, Japan Arts Fund, Pola Art Foundation,
The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation,
Nomura Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, The Fukuoka Cultural Foundation
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Kyushu Railway Company, the Nishi-Nippon City Bank, Ltd., Saibu Gas CO.,Ltd..
The Bank of Fukuoka, Ltd., Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co., Ltd, Kyudenko Co.,Inc.
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Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Solol
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Fine Art University of
Jaffna, Sri Lanka (Salol
2010 Theertha artists exhibition,
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Bangalore, India
2009 Theertha Art- Works on Paper,
National Art Gallery, Maldives
Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo
2008 Day2 Day, Theertha Exhibition
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images resemble the road that now
connects the country's north and south again. A Sinhalese
native of the south and a Buddhist, Thalawatta
north. where the Hindu religion prevails.
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Jaffna was at
the forefront of the civil war, and the artist's experience of
shaped a new style of art different from his earlier works.
The artist himself appears in Roadscape, which he submitted for FT5, wearing red-and-white
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represent a Hindu temple. making an imposing presence
as he stands at the scene of postwar reconstruction.
In
Sky. Sea and Road, Thalawatta uses pyrography to imply
the scorched earth of battles, while a blue ocean and sky
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of the civil war that spanned 30 years, so
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Pradeep Thalawatta depicts the landscape of Sri Lanka
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Hindu temples
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being destroyed to widen the road. The
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