{"id":76023,"date":"2013-03-06T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T11:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=76023"},"modified":"2013-03-18T08:13:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T08:13:24","slug":"encountering-the-local-gogaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/encountering-the-local-gogaan\/","title":{"rendered":"Encountering The Local Gogaan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">An exhibition of Seevali Illangasinghe\u2018s paintings will be\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">held at the Visual Arts University, (UDA Perera gallery), No 46, Horton Place Colombo 7, March 11-18, from 9.00 A.M to 5.oopm. The exhibition will be his latest collection of paintings.\u00a0Being an eminent visual artist for over four decades, Seevali Illangasinghe has been marking one aspects of art in Sri Lanka\u2019s art history and has exhibited his paintings in many capitols of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seevali, who suffered a brain hemorrhage and had to spend all his money to recover, so a group of his admirers\u00a0decided to have an exhibition of his paintings. Once\u00a0again\u00a0he suffered a second attack and is recovering. There are four people who have offered to sponsor the exhibition. 1. Professor Carlo Forseka, 2. Kumar Sangakara 3. Dharmasiri Bandaranayake 4 Kumar Rupesinghe. 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