Rossi & Rossi, one of London's leading dealers in Asian art, will be exhibiting recent work by contemporary Tibetan artists at the second showing of ShContemporary 2008, the Asia Pacific art fair, that will take place in the spectacular Shanghai Exhibition Centre from Wednesday 10 to Saturday 13 September 2008. With more than 100 galleries representing over 20 countries - the best galleries from the East juxtaposed with top Western galleries - ShContemporary 2008 is the only international art fair that provides a comprehensive quality overview of the artistic scene in Asia and creates a cultural cross-over with the works of Western artists.

Seven Tibetan artists whose work is already internationally recognised will be represented by Rossi & Rossi at the fair: Kesang Lamdark, Tenzing Rigdol, Palden Larz Weinreb, Nortse, Tsewang Tashi, Gade and Gonkar Gyatso. While their work shows their individuality as artists, what they all have in common is a fusion of their own culture and history with contemporary Western ideas and imagery. From Nortse's disturbing photographs of men with bound faces, Prayer Wheel, Big Brother and Group Photo, to Gonkar Gyatso's enigmatic silkscreen print Puzzle Buddha with its dotted outline of a seated Buddha bisected by a section of a crossword, all the works are thought-provoking and frequently disturbing.

In the outdoor project space in the grounds surrounding the Shanghai Exhibition Centre Kesang Lamdark will create a work called Pink Himalayan Boulder. He is arranging for a huge rock to be sent from Tibet, which he will cover with melted pink plastic. The rock symbolizes the Himalayas, the plastic the West and the pink colour the artist. Also exhibiting in this space is Thai artist Chatchai Puipia, whom Rossi is co-representing with 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok. Better Than Ever (The game of life with a little help from the ball of wisdom) is a portrait sculpture of the artist looking between his legs made from fibreglass, pigments, charcoal, gold leaf, steel and graphite, depicting an alternate way of looking at the world.

At the fair Rossi is also representing Erbossyn Meldibekov from Kazakhstan who has been invited by curator Sara Raza to take part in "Best of Discovery", a specially curated section featuring over 30 of the most interesting emerging artists from the entire Asia Pacific region. Meldibekov is one of Central Asia's most complex and esteemed contemporary artists. His work is defined by the dual themes of the heroic versus the barbaric within a post-Soviet cultural context. Works from Meldibekov's special project entitled Cult of Personality offer a humorous take on contemporary Central Asian politics and will include the epic Monument to Unknown Hero (1999-2007), an installation of horses' hooves and limbs citing Central Asia's historical "heroes on horseback", and Sheepwolf (2001), a mixed media sculpture representing the hunted and the hunter through the passivity of the sheep and the predatory nature of the wolf.