''Existence'' The first solo exhibition by Constantine was held at the VAFA Gallery, Kotte, Sri Lanka in June 1999. At this exhibition Performance was introduced for the first time by a Sri Lankan artist
Performance - Broken Palmyra
No Order Group Exhibition
“The self-confidence thus gained, culminated in giving rise to a new kind of an artistic personality, which was not seen before in the domain of Sri Lankan art: an artist who was conscious of his or her intellectual and political powers and possibilities. It was this radically new identity, which can be identified as an ‘enlightenment’ in its own right, that prompted Weerasinghe, Thenuwara, Perera, Constentine, Carder and Gunatillake, along with four junior artists, Sarath Kumarasiri, Pradeep Chandrasiri, Nilanti Weerasekara and Pushpakumara Koralegedara to come out with a manifesto titled ‘No Order’ in 1999 that clearly announced the basic tenets of the art of the 1990s.”
http://www.theertha.org/arttoday/contemporary-art-in-sri-lanka-by-jagath-weerasinghe
Identity - a Performance by Constantine at the “No Order Group” exhibition
Camouflage
Camouflage was Thenuwara’s 2003 exhibition Constantine’s performance “Camouflage” took place on the opening day of the exhibition
Urban and the Individual
Urban and the Individual exhibition was an exercise for artists to think, discuss and articulate on social and cultural phenomena that is usually taken for granted and to search for new ways and means to interpret situations of life beyond the conventional and the predictable through their art. The exhibition explored the tensions and the celebration of self within workings of present day cultural /social forces that are defined by the global economies, technological abundance and highly consumer free market systems. The exhibition was held at Finomenal Space gallery, Colombo from 5th to 11th November 2004 with the participation of 19 artists.
Identity - Performance by Constantine at “Urban and the Individual”
Original and Fake performance by Bandu Manamperi and GR Constantine
at Pala Pothupitiye’s Exhibition Ancestral Dress + My ID Series: Art of Pala Pothupitiye ,Theertha Exhibition Season 2008.
The Maze Performance & art project colaborated with G.R. Constantine and bandu Manamperi, 2006
'Transparent Barrelism' at Jagath Weerasinghe’s
Celestial Fervor Exhibition ,2009
Barrel was used as a visual symbol in Sri Lankan art during the war. The victory of the war was declared in May 2009.
Now, what we have is a barrel that we cannot see, or a barrel that has lost its camouflage. The war is still there, but in a different form. We refuse to see it or we do not see it. And, in the performance, the artists representing the individuals of the society, go inside the transparent barrel which represents this new form societal unrest. This performance symbolically states that individuals are not acknowledging the new social reality. They are hiding themselves comfortably inside a barrel, covering the thinking head, the top of the body, and sarcastically revealing the bottom part.
Elusive Space. Performance by GR Constantine and Bandu Manammperi at the 1st Colombo Art Biennale (CAB) 2009
IMAGING THE AFTERMATH an exhibition of paintings by G.R.Constantine was held at the Red Dot Gallery in Pittakotte . The preview was held on 29th of January 2011.
Caged peace dove - Performace
