{"id":351,"date":"2022-02-08T10:31:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T10:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.topic.lk\/?p=351"},"modified":"2022-02-08T10:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T10:31:56","slug":"geoffrey-bawa-it-is-essential-to-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/351\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGeoffrey Bawa: It is Essential to be There\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nations Trust Bank Private Banking, the premier banking service for the discerning, partners with the Geoffrey Bawa Trust for its first major exhibition: \u201cIt is Essential to be There\u201d, which draws from the archives to look at Bawa\u2019s practice. The Stables at Park Street Mews, Colombo will host the exhibition from February 1st<\/sup> to April 3rd<\/sup> 2022, curated by Shayari de Silva, the Lunuganga Trust\u2019s Curator of Geoffrey Bawa Art & Archival Collection.<\/p>\n

Organised in four thematic sections \u201cGeoffrey Bawa: It is Essential to be There\u201d will explore relationships between ideas, drawings, buildings and places, exploring the different ways in which images were used in Bawa\u2019s practice. Presented in English, Sinhala and Tamil, the exhibition will enthrall connoisseurs of art and culture with over 120 documents from the Bawa archives, most of which have never been shown publicly previously, including a section on unbuilt work and Bawa\u2019s own photographs from his travels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe influential works of Sri Lanka\u2019s Geoffry Bawa, one of Asia\u2019s most acclaimed architects, resonates closely with Nation\u2019s Trust Bank Private Banking and Inner Circle members. Bawa is a shining beacon for all Sri Lankan\u2019s who strive to rise to the pinnacle of their profession, who continues to inspire the global industry, and Nations Trust Bank\u2019s Private Banking is elated to be partnering the Geoffrey Bawa Trust\u2019s first major exhibition, baring the soul of the man behind the architectural marvels. We invite our discerning customers to take the opportunity to tour the exhibition with Geoffrey Bawa\u2019s mentee, renowned Architect Channa Daswatta and to have their Children join exclusive workshops at the exhibition,\u201d stated Nations Trust Bank\u2019s Chief Marketing Officer, Sanjaya Senarath<\/strong> commenting on the partnership.<\/p>\n

Geoffrey Bawa\u2019s distinct practice as an architect began with the purchase of an abandoned rubber and cinnamon estate, which he would transform into the garden that is now Lunuganga, in 1948 \u2013 in the wake of the country\u2019s newly gained independence from the British Empire. From this very first project, Bawa\u2019s oeuvre is marked by architecture that seeks to understand the notion of place. In a practice so attuned to the generative aspects of place, drawings play a complex role.<\/p>\n\n\n

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These works show the particularity of each project\u2019s location and the explorations undertaken by the practice to explore site across the many layers of culture, history and environment that characterize a place beyond its position on a map. Although Bawa\u2019s work has been exhibited at multiple venues in the UK, USA, Australia, India, Brazil, Singapore and Germany, this is the first exhibition on Bawa\u2019s work to be shown in Sri Lanka. The exhibition is curated by the Geoffrey Bawa Trust\u2019s curator Shayari de Silva, and includes new photographs and video works by Sebastian Posingis, Dominic Sansoni and Clara Kraft Isono.<\/p>\n

The Geoffrey Bawa Trust is a non-profit, public trust that was established in 1982 by the late architect, with the objectives of furthering the fields of Architecture, the Fine Arts and Ecological and Environmental Studies.<\/p>\n

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supported by Nations Trust Bank Nations Trust Bank Private Banking, the premier banking service for the discerning, partners with the Geoffrey Bawa Trust for its first major exhibition: \u201cIt is Essential to be There\u201d, which draws from the archives to look at Bawa\u2019s practice. The Stables at Park Street Mews, Colombo will host the exhibition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biz_news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}