23 - 26 MAY 2013 

Private View: 22 MAY 
The artist will be present at the opening

Art Basel Hong Kong 
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), 
1 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong 
Stand 1C40 

In this inaugural year of Art Basel Hong Kong Rossi & Rossi are delighted to present a series of new paintings in a solo exhibition by Tibetan artist Tsherin Sherpa.

All of them have only been finished this year and include a group of works entitled Golden Child/Black Clouds. These paintings, richly layered with complex images immaculately painted and set against the sheen of gold and silver leaf enlivened with glitter, continue the artist’s exploration of the detachment that exiled Tibetans of the Diaspora feel for their homeland, which he explored in his acclaimed Tibetan Spirit exhibition held in last year in London. These spirits he saw as pioneers and aliens, exploring the new and foreign environments in which they found themselves after the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959. According to the Sherpa, these spirits have become wiser with time and now hide in the smoke watching over the next generation of Tibetan children, which he worries are being damaged by the violence to which they are often the silent witness.

These Tibetan children, scattered throughout the East and West, often severed from or simply unaware of the cultural roots which have informed and nurtured their more private and spiritual lives for centuries look towards each other: Tibetan parents living in the West wish to send their children eastwards to learn about their traditional culture, while children in Tibet dream of travelling to America. The silhouettes that seemingly inhabit the black clouds surrounding the children, are a warning to the dangers and chaos of the world in which both groups find themselves. However, the children gaze out at us through skin of burnished gold suggesting hope in the future, despite the clouds, dark with the smoke of immolation, whilst the butterflies that flicker across the surfaces speak of transformation, of promise, of growth.

Image: 

Photographs from the Snow Series

24 May – 22 June 2013 | Rossi & Rossi (HONG KONG)

Thursday - Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm

Or by appointment

PRIVATE VIEW: 23 MAY, 6-11 pm

YALLAY SPACE

UNIT 3C YALLY BUILDING, 6 YIP FAT STREET, Wong Chuk Hang, HONG KONG 

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Voice of the Unseen, Chinese Independent Art Since 1979

1 JUNE - 24 NOVEMBER

MARCH 29 - MAY 11, 2013   

The artist Jaishri Abichandani conceived and organized The Emo Show, a dynamic curatorial experiment involving seven NYC based curators of color and twenty-six artists. The participating curators are invited to suspend their political and social biases and choose work solely based on its personal, emotional impact. Consequently, The Emo Show presents a diverse group of emotionally powerful works and promises to be both emotionally resonant, and to raise questions regarding more traditional curatorial models that tend to ignore the sentimental and profoundly visceral experiences of contemporary art.

Jaishri Abichandani was born in Bombay, India, and immigrated to New York City in 1984. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London and has since continued to intertwine art and activism in her career, founding the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective in New York and London. She has exhibited her work internationally at various venues including P.S.1/MOMA, the Queens Museum of Art, the 798 Beijing Biennial and the Guangzhou Triennial in China. Her work is included in various international collections including the Burger Collection, the Florian Peters Messers Collection and the Saatchi Collection. 

Venue: The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 323 West 39th Street, 3rd Floor New York NY 10018, USA

25 April - 30 May 2013

The artworks on view at this exhibition form part of a body of works collated into the book ‘Childhood,’ presented alongside a textual accompaniment written by the artist. Within his writing, Dahong captures perfectly the tales and thought processes from which his artistic narratives are born. At the same time, the artworks themselves exemplify the way in which Dahong’s virtuosity as a writer informs his visual expressions, injecting them with a lyrical quality.

Over-arching the works are the themes of childhood and rebellion, memory and myth- making: each piece paying homage to the act of trouble making and its youthful essence. Dahong is able to conjure up individual and everyday scenes of mischief against a background of sweeping historical change.

“For me, childhood is the standard of everything beautiful, the yard stick. Childhood is eternal, may the ideals of childhood reign forever!”

Born in Qingdao, Shandong, China in 1962, Liu Dahong studied under Zao Wouki before graduating from the China Academy of Art in 1985.  He has exhibited widely on the international stage in both solo and group shows.

Art13 London is a new art fair for Modern and Contemporary art that launches in March this year. For this inaugral event, we will be showing a selection of gallery artists including: 

Naiza H. Khan who is featured in the 9th Shanghai Biennale and will be showing at a major exhibition opening at the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. A monograph on her work will be published this month.

Leang Seckon, Cambodia's foremost contemporary artist whose works also are featured at the Shanghai Biennale.

Kesang Lamdark whose solo exhibition "Headless Disco on Top of the World" runs 25 January - 9 March at Grieder Contemporary, Zurich

Heman Chong who is currently steering a year-long program conceived between Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam and Hong Kong art initiative, Spring Workshop, entitled Moderation(s).Chong is also featuring in the exhibition Believers which runs until May 13th at Varberg Konsthall, Sweden.

Date: 1 - 3 March 2013

Venue: Olympia Grand Hall

For further information and tickets to the event please visit: http://artfairslondon.com/

7 February - 27 March 2013

Rossi & Rossi are delighted to present Darkness Into Beauty, our second solo show by Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol, whose work will later this year be featured at the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

With a whole new array of work, Rigdol’s paintings are the product of collective influences and interpretations of age-old traditions; they are influenced by philosophy, often addressing issues of human conflict and have strong political undertones, an unavoidable element in his art. 

Private View: 6 February, 6pm - 8pm

Venue: Rossi & Rossi, London

Photo: Journey of my Teacher, 2011, Collage, silk brocade, scripture, 200 x 200 cm (78 ¾ x 78 ¾ in)

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For the third year running, Rossi & Rossi are delighted to announce our participation in Art Stage Singapore, which has quickly established itself as one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic art fairs. For the 2013 event, we will be showcasing the strikingly contrasting works of two spearheading artists: Tibetan contemporary artist Palden Weinreb and Cambodia’s foremost contemporary painter Leang Seckon.  Both artists have worked on a new body of work especially for Art Stage Singapore.

Leang Seckon’s new works lament and celebrate the life of Cambodia’s recently deceased King Norodom Sihanouk and capture, with vivid clarity, the moment of change the country is now undergoing.  Palden Weinrab, on the other hand, continues his exploration of more intangible contemplations through his unmistakable pared down style and tonal sophistication. Considered together, the artist’s present us with divergent, but tantalising, illusory worlds. Conjured from the artist’s respective manipulations of surface, the works play with both architected flatness and optical depth, bringing rhythm and structure to the apparent chaos around.

You will find us at booth C3 - 02, we hope to see you there. For more information regarding the event and tickets please visit the Art Stage Singapore website: 

http://www.artstagesingapore.com/

Date: 24 - 27 January 2013

Private view: 23 January 2013

Venue: Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, Booth C3 - 02

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