MATI KETAWA ALA USA

2011

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

200 X 150 cm (79 x 59 in)

3 - 8 February, 2012

Rossi & Rossi is again pleased to announce our participation in VIP Art Fair 2.0. the exclusive online art fair. Now in its second year it promises once again to raise our expectations with many exciting new features.

Please contact the gallery for additional information including fair passes.

This year we shall be 'rehanging' our booth each day of the fair in order to present solo shows by Benchung, Konstantin Bessmertny, Heri Dono, Kesang Lamdark, Tenzing Rigdol and Palden Weinreb. So, keep up with our changes by visiting us at the fair everyday.

Rossi & Rossi is pleased to announce its participation in Art Stage Singapore, 12-15 January 2012.

We will be showing new works of Tenzing Rigdol.

Our Stand: D1-03.

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Faiza Butt
Unless - 4
2010
ink on coated polyester film
13.5 x 13.5 cm (5¼ x 5¼ in) each

8 Dec 2011 - 9 Feb 2012

The title, taken from an Elvis Costello song written by Nick Lowe, seems particularly apt at the turning of the year when we can be so sated with the sentimental and assaulted by the avarice of the consumer world, both masquerading as the genuine article: love. It’s a time when families, gathered together to celebrate, can fall into argument and fighting; a time too when in the wider world differing religions vie for supremacy. In such times it is easy to become cynical, but what exactly is so funny about Peace, Love and Understanding?

Featuring the work of:

Jaishri Abichandani
Fereydoun Ave
Benchung
Konstantin
Bessmertny
Bhutanese Textile Project
Faiza Butt
Caroline Chiu
Heman Chong
Lois Conner
Shane Cotton
Gade
Naiza Khan
Kesang Lamdark
Erbossyn Meldibekov
Nortse
Tsering Nyandak
Tenzing Rigdol
Leang Seckon
Tsherin Sherpa
Tsewang Tashi
Palden Weinreb

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Artist at transportation of soil

Artist at transportation of soil

26 October 2011

Dharamsala – On Wednesday 26 October, Tibetans in exile will set foot on Tibetan soil. Leading Tibetan artist, Tenzing Rigdol, has transported 20,000 kilograms of soil from Tibet to Dharamsala, home of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan government in exile and more than 10,000 Tibetan refugees. The soil will be spread on a stage where people will be invited to walk and sit as well as express their feelings through a standing microphone. The design of the site-specific installation, titled "Our Land, Our People," comes from the inspiration and interpretation of the Tibetan national flag and the tragic history of Tibet.

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Naiza Khan An Invisible landscape conditions the visible one 2011 Oil on Canvas 270 cm x 200 cm (106 x 78.5 in )

29 September – 29 October 2011

Amelia Johnson Contemporary
G/F 6-10 Shin Hing Street, NOHO, Hong Kong.

In association with Amelia Johnson Contemporary, we are delighted to present by the noted Pakistani artists Faiza Butt and Naiza Khan.

Entitled Shifting Ground, the artists use this exhibition to discuss the idea of changing personal and artistic perspectives, and to explore a cultural transformation by means of migration and assimilation as well as cultural expectations that both are subject to and the resulting possible ‘contaminations’.

A catalogue of this exhibition with an introductory essay written by Rosa Maria Falvo is now available.  Falvo is a writer and curator, and the international editor for Skira Publishing in Milan.  

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Tsesring Nyandak, Buddhas, 2006, 4 digital prints

September 14 - November 15, 2011

Samantabhadra, 18th Century, China

Rossi & Rossi are pleased to announce its participation in Fine Art Asia Hong Kong this coming October. As in previous years a magnificent assembly of classical Buddhist art from the Himalyan region will be shown including an outstanding and important group of ritual objects from Tibet, many of which represent the highest level of craftsmanship from the period.

We look forward to seeing you at the fair. For further information please contact us at the gallery or visits the website: http://www.fineartasia.com

Fine Art Asia 2011

2nd – 7th October  2011

address:
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hall 5BC
1 Expo Drive
Wanchai
Hong Kong

STAND D1

Menasa Art Fair, Beirut: 13 - 16 July

Menasa, an acronymn for Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, is a young art fair, eager to tap into the energy so palpable in Beirut today. Dedicated to showing exciting work from across a vast region stretching from Morocco to Indonesia, the fair is set to become one of the more interesting destinations of the international art world.

We are showcasing the work of Fereydoun Ave from Iran and Naiza H Khan from Pakistan, both of whom are well respected artists and curators. Fereydoun, recognised as one of the formative spirits of the Iranian contemporary art world, now divides his time between Tehran and Paris. We shall be showing a selection of works created between 1999 and 2010. Naiza Khan has fast built a reputation as one of the foremost artists working in Pakistan. Featured in international exhibitions around the world she has recently herself curated the groundbreaking show, The Rising Tide at the Mohatta Palace in Karachi, Pakistan's first museum exhibition of contemporary art from the country. In Beirut we are showing a series of mixed media works and small sculptures based around her exploring the the fishing port of Manora, a seaside town recently partially abandoned and destroyed by developers hoping to create a new tourist destination.

For more information go to: http://www.menasart-fair.com

Alfredo Aquilizan Landscape Painting 2 2010 Oil on canvas, picture frames 127 x 202 cm (50 x 79 ½ in)

Stories of Dreams and Realities

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming group exhibition of contemporary art from The Philippines, held in association with The Drawing Room Gallery, Manila, the first time such a survey has been seen in a UK gallery.

Alfredo Aquilizan, Roderico Jose Daroy, Kiko Escora, Kawayan de Guia, Riel Hilario, Troy Ignacio, Jose Legaspi, Diokno Pasilan, Lirio Salvador, Mark Salvatus and Trek Valdizno are all artists with a rich visual heritage whose works combine elements of fantasy, myth making and the everyday in varying degrees, commenting on a changing world in an increasingly international arena.

To celebrate this exhibition a full colour catalogue will be available with an introductory essay by the noted Philippine academic Patrick D. Flores, Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of the Philippines at Diliman, and is the Curator of the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum and Adjunct Curator of the National Art Galleries of the Philippines and Singapore. 

Erbossyn Meldibekov

Lost Paradise (I am here to see you, you are here to see me)

For the fourth year since its inception in 2008 we are delighted to announce our participation in ArtHK, Asia's leading art fair. This year a newly expanded roster of galleries promises to make the fair even more diverse and exciting with interest building-up around the news of its purchase by Art Basel.

Erbossyn Meldibekov has fast earned a reputation as Central Asia's agent provocateur with his playful yet political artistic practice that examines the trials and tribulations of post-Soviet geography and condition. In the lead-up to his participation in the 54th Venice Biennial, Meldibekov's Art Hong Kong debut Lost Paradise features the artist as spin doctor, mounting a fictitious – and highly absurd – political campaign, which seemingly promises choice, progressive nostalgia, and defiance against Soviet Orientalism, but ultimately results in failed Utopia: the Lost Paradise of the exhibition’s title.

Works will range from Mutations, (2009) four cast bronze heads, ‘portraits’ that meld the artist's face with those of other historical figures such as Lenin, Giacometti or Genghis Khan, to his more familiar enamelled vessels that he has beaten and crushed to form simulacra of mountain ranges. Winter on the Peak of Lenin/Spring on the Peak of Avicenna, (2010) sees metal pots fashioned to resemble the real mountain range separating neighbouring Central Asian republics Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union both nations have been quarrelling over its naming with the Kirghiz government retaining the Soviet name Peak of Lenin and Persian speaking Tajikistan vying for Peak of Avicenna, after the renowned 10^th century Persian scientist Ibn Sina (Greek name Avicenna). Meldibekov proposes as a solution a seasonal timeshare between the two nations as means to adopt both histories, with the mountain changing name every six months.

Several new works will also be premiered: In Grandfather and Child, (2011) three cast bronze sculptures fuse the image of Marx with one of Central Asia’s current and most revered Uzbek terrorists Tahir Yuldashe, who, ironically, joined the communist party after the collapse of the USSR and exemplifies that fine line between Soviet and Eastern-Orientalism. One Golden Thread in a Central Asian Carpet or China Beware, (2011) an alternative Turkmeni carpet incongruously made of some 80,000 gold-coloured metal threads, one of which is 2 gram strand of gold, echoes Meldibekov’s familiar pairing of the familiar with the foreign, commodity and commodification in the age of global consumption.