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Tsewang Tashi, Untitled No. 3, 2006, oil on canvas, 55 by 55 inches.

 

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LONDON — Rossi & Rossi announces the opening of its new gallery on the ground floor of 16 Clifford Street, an Eighteenth Century townhouse in Mayfair, London W1, on September 1.

This move, with double the current exhibition space, will enable the gallery to give greater prominence to contemporary Asian art as well as continuing to show the traditional Tibetan and Himalayan art for which it is 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 art being produced by Asian artists today, particularly Tibetan.

Rossi & Rossi’s opening exhibition, “Consciousness and Form: Contemporary Tibetan Art,” will take place October 5–26 and will be a continuation of this dialogue between past and present, exhibiting the work of a group of eight artists with Tibetan heritage. Four of the artists live in Tibet and four in the West, 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.

“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, symbolizes 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.

The exhibition follows the success of Rossi & Rossi’s groundbreaking London exhibition, “From Classic To Contemporary: Visions from Tibet” in 2005 and its 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.

The exhibition of contemporary paintings, photographs, drawings and prints and mixed media, includes a selection of earlier works dating from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries including two gilt copper alloy sculptures set with semiprecious stones. A Thirteenth Century Central Tibetan paintings, distemper on cloth, depicts one of the five celestial Buddhas, Sarvavid Vairocana, the Omniscient Illuminator, preaching to an harmoniously arranged chorus of celestial beings.

Rossi & Rossi Ltd, is at 16 Clifford Street. For information, +44 (0)20 7355 1804 or www.rossirossi.com.