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DiaporamaThe Ancestral Dress 2
Contemporary Art
38.0 x 53.0 cm
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
pala pothupitiye (1972 –)
Sri Lankan contemporary artist Pala Pothupitiye blends traditional Southern Sri Lankan craft & ritual heritage with modern art. Explore ancestral themes & unique textile interpretations.
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan)
The museum champions emerging artists and utilizes diverse mediums like paintings, sculptures, installations, and video art.
Pala Pothupitiya often incorporates elements of traditional craft in his work. Candy Dance is a famous traditional dance in Sri Lanka but the dancers are socially regarded as lower class. As if he is paying homage to his own father who was a Candy dancer, the artist decorates the bust of a dancer excessively. Ironically, the materials he chooses are cheap plastic and discarded materials. He may well suggest that the contemporary industrial materials and neon lights in urban cities that he used in his work have a common allure with traditional culture.
About this artwork
- Title: The Ancestral Dress 2
- Artist: pala pothupitiye
- Original dimensions: 38.0 x 53.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
- Movement: Contemporary Art
- Main color: Driftwood
- Keywords: unique art collector , cultural richness piece , symbolic design art
- Color intensity: Balanced
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