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‘TWIRLING THE LOTUS’ OPENS NOV. 1 AT ROSSI & ROSSI IN LONDON

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LONDON — Rossi & Rossi will stage an exhibition, “Twirling the Lotus: Photographs from Tibet and China by Lois Conner,” at its new gallery at 16 Clifford Street, Mayfair, Thursday, November 1, to Friday, November 30.

This will be Conner’s third exhibition in London, following the success of previous shows at the Photographer’s Gallery in 1988 and in 2004 at the British Library as part of “The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith.” This exhibit will include some 25 platinum and pigment ink prints offered in limited editions.

Rossi & Rossi’s showing of the panoramic photographs by one of the most important and influential photographers of late Twentieth Century Asia will be a major contribution to the tenth anniversary celebrations of Asian Art in London, which takes place November 1–10.

Conner is a landscape photographer who has spent much of the last quarter of a century working in Asia, particularly China and Vietnam. In 1982 she began to work in an elongated format, using a panoramic or “banquet” camera inspired in part by Ming dynasty paintings she had studied while in graduate school.

In 1984, with a Guggenheim Fellowship, she spent nine months in China and since then has returned to work there annually, most often for months at a time. Since the 1990s, Conner has drawn her inspiration from the gradual yet profound changes in the physicality of the cities and countryside that have occurred since the adoption of a market economy.

The photographs on show include a number of her tranquil studies of the lotus in a wide variety of forms, taken at different seasons and times of the day. Alongside these subtle images of the lotus will be studies of landscape, street scenes and portraits, temples, monasteries and sculptures from China and Tibet.

Visitors to the exhibition will also have the opportunity to see a selection of traditional Tibetan works including a Twelfth Century bronze statue that depicts a defining moment in the like of Shakyamuni Buddha.

For general information, www.rossirossi.com or 44 (0)20 7355 1804.