Gallery Silver Scpaes
Ascending by Echoes
Ascending by Echoes
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Artist: SHANAKA KULATHUNGA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 32 x 39 inches
Year: 2025
Shanaka Kulathunga captures the pulse of urban life through a richly layered cityscape that balances architectural grandeur with intimate human presence. In this work, the city becomes more than a backdrop; it transforms into a living organism shaped by memory, movement, and collective experience. Colonial-era buildings stand with quiet dignity, their weathered facades carrying traces of history, while pedestrians, street vendors, and fleeting silhouettes animate the scene with rhythm and spontaneity. Through this interplay of permanence and transience, Kulathunga reflects on the ever-changing nature of urban existence.
His painterly approach combines careful observation with expressive texture, allowing every surface to vibrate with energy and atmosphere. Light moves across the composition in subtle tonal shifts, revealing both the beauty and fragility of everyday moments that often pass unnoticed. Rather than presenting the city as a static environment, Kulathunga portrays it as an emotional landscape where stories unfold continuously in shared public spaces.
The layered composition invites viewers to wander through the scene, discovering fragments of narrative embedded within the architecture and human interactions. The work evokes nostalgia while remaining deeply rooted in contemporary life, emphasizing how cities preserve memory even as they evolve. Through his sensitive handling of detail, colour, and spatial depth, Kulathunga celebrates the poetry of ordinary urban experiences and the enduring relationship between people and the environments they inhabit.
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Art has always, naturally, reflected the development and exploration of different thoughts and perceptions, and our current postmodern era is no different. It is interesting to see how art has evolved visually, yet the traditional methods of composing art remain a valid means of expression.
All it takes for an artist to rise above normalcy, is inspiration, which fuels his passion to paint beautiful creations throughout his life.
The valuable expression of art is always there with us, but now this expression is yet to take an interesting diversion with our art gallery, Gallery Silver Scapes, located in Hauz Khas Enclave. Art is no longer considered just decorative but has evolved and come forth as a major form of investment yielding high rates of returns for its buyers, making it an expression commonly used.
Mrs Mayor was walked into the art world by the legendary modernist Bimal Das Gupta, one of whose biggest collections remains with Gallery Silver Scapes. In the 1980s, as head and first curator of the Habiart Gallery founded by Mrs Rekha Modi — a childhood friend — Mrs Mayor worked closely with and curated shows for renowned artists such as A Ramachandran, GR Santosh, Rameshwar Broota, Sakti Burman, MK Bardhan, Dhiraj Chaudhury, M Sivanesan, and Arup Das among others.
Besides modern masters, she also worked with young contemporaries such as Sudip Roy, Paresh Maity, Subroto Kundu, Vinod Sharma, and many more. Artworks commissioned by her are now part of prestigious collections, such as those of the India Habitat Centre, Ranbaxy, Pepsi, Hotel Lalit, Bank of America, and many more private and public collections.