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Consciousness and Form: Contemporary Tibetan Art

Rossi & Rossi Move to Larger Gallery Tsering Nyandak
7 septembre 2007

 

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Consciousness and Form

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Rossi & Rossi are delighted to announce the opening of their new gallery on the ground floor of 16 Clifford Street, an 18th century townhouse in Mayfair, London W1, on 1 September 2007. This move, with double their current exhibition space, will enable them to give greater prominence to contemporary Asian art as well as continuing to show the traditional Tibetan and Himalayan art for which they are renowned. The new gallery will reflect Rossi & Rossi’s deep interest not only in the art and culture of the past but also in the vibrant and innovative art being produced by Asian artists today, particularly Tibetan. The Rossi & Rossi gallery at 16 Clifford Street will be one of the few galleries in Europe where the best of the arts of Asia, both past and present, can be seen.

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Rossi & Rossi’s opening exhibition Consciousness and Form: Contemporary Tibetan Art takes place from Friday 5 to Friday 26 October 2007 and will be a continuation of this dialogue between past and present, exhibiting the work of an exciting group of eight talented artists with Tibetan heritage. Four of the artists live in Tibet and four in the West, thus making this the first of many exhibitions at 16 Clifford Street that will illustrate not only what is happening now to contemporary art in the East but also what happens when East meets West. When artists migrate, when different cultures meet and mingle, the fusion from these encounters and the resulting art is constantly evolving, turning; it is transnational, transcultural, multicultural, never standing still. Rossi & Rossi will exhibit the most exciting contemporary artists whose work best reflects our constantly changing times.

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Consciousness and Form: Contemporary Tibetan Art, as the title suggests, will illustrate the universal tension between the spirit of the artist and his desire to give it form. In traditional Tibetan art, the five senses are depicted as offerings to the gods while the sixth sense, consciousness, symbolises the body, speech and mind of the deity empowering the organs of the five senses. Each artist will show two works which express this Eastern concept in their own, very individual, way.

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Tsering Nyandak who was born and lives in Tibet but lived for eight years in India says: “People always try, or pretend, to read your society and your background through your work with the baggage of their own expectations and experience. We all know that political and cultural distinctions provide attraction, but there is the high danger that people just engage with a cultural mask in the end. I believe the banality of play between consciousness (reaction) and form (art) can be more genuine. Work as form and its interrelation with people as consciousness is what counts.”

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The exhibition follows the success of Rossi & Rossi’s ground-breaking London exhibition From Classic to Contemporary: Visions from Tibet in 2005 and their New York show earlier this year, Tibetan Encounters: Contemporary meets Tradition. The former was the first commercial exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in the West. Works by the eight artists featured in Consciousness and Form: Contemporary Tibetan Art were also shown in the New York exhibition, when the majority were sold to European, American and Asian buyers as well as to museums in America and Europe for prices ranging from around $5,000 up to around $30,000. All these contemporary exhibitions highlight Rossi & Rossi’s commitment to nurturing emerging talent from Asia and bringing it to a broader audience.

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Visitors to this exhibition of contemporary paintings, photographs, drawings and prints and mixed media, will also be able to view a selection of earlier works dating from the 12th to the 17th centuries including two wonderful gilt copper alloy sculptures set with semi-precious stones. One is a 13th century Nepalese figure of Vasudhara, the Buddhist goddess of abundance, wealth, good fortune and fertility, shown in all her voluptuous magnificence, the other is an unusually large figure of Sadakshari Lokeshvara, the most popular Buddist bodhisattva in the Tibetan pantheon. It is an important example of the fine metal-working tradition of the Khasa Malla kingdom in Western Nepal/Western Tibet which flourished during the 13th and 14th centuries and is extraordinary for its elaboration and luxury indicating it may have been a royal commission.

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A magnificent 13th century Central Tibetan painting, distemper on cloth, depicts one of the five celestial Buddhas, Sarvavid Vairocana, the Omniscient Illuminator, preaching to an harmoniously arranged chorus of celestial beings. The enthroned, three-headed Buddha is adorned with lavish accoutrements including crown, earrings, necklaces, armlets, anklets and belt and a lower garment of richly designed textiles. The painting was created by an artist with remarkable skill and sensitivity and is unusually large for the period (148 x 115.5 cm).

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For further information about the artists participating in this exhibition, please contact us info@suebond.co.uk.
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Anna Maria Rossi founded Rossi & Rossi Ltd in London in 1985. In 1988 her son Fabio joined her and together they established a reputation as leading dealers in Indian and Himalayan art, early Chinese and Central Asian textiles and works of art. In recent years they have additionally staged exhibitions of Tibetan and Chinese contemporary artists as well as Western artists who have worked in the East. These contemporary exhibitions have been met with critical acclaim and a positive audience response, bringing them to the forefront of the thriving contemporary art market.
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Rossi & Rossi’s clients include distinguished private collectors as well as many major museums worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Tokyo National Museum and the Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Catalogues written by leading scholars accompany most of their exhibitions and forums which are open to the public are held to discuss the works with the artists, scholars and collectors alike.

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