Screening
"Bringing Tibet Home" (2013) Screening and Q&A with artist Tenzing Rigdol
07 Oct 2015
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Tenzing Rigdol, "Identity", 2015, acrylic and collage on paper, 71.4 x 47.5 cm (28 x 18 3/4 in)
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Tenzing Rigdol, "Waves", 2015, ink on paper, 77 x 56 x 3.5 cm (30 1/2 x 22 x 1 1/2 in)
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Tenzing Rigdol, "Empire", 2009, Epson ink-jet print on semi-gloss paper, 16.5 x 10 cm (6 1/2 x 4 in)
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Tenzing Rigdol, "Melong", 2013, collage and silk brocade on canvas, 167.6 x 152.4 cm (66 x 60 in)
Exhibition
Tenzing Rigdol – Change is the Eternal Law
19 Sep 2015 – 24 Oct 2015
Event times
Saturday–Tuesday: 11am–6pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Unit 3C, Yally Industrial Building
- 6 Yip Fat Street
- Hong Kong
Hong Kong Island - Hong Kong
Event map
"Change is the Eternal Law" features video works, collages, photographs, and paintings by Tenzing Rigdol, a classically trained Tibetan artist.
About
The title of the exhibition references the first of Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths—‘the eternal law’—dukkha, or suffering, which teaches us that all forms of life are both in flux and impermanent. In his work, Rigdol draws on traditional Buddhist and Tibetan iconography to highlight the suffering of Tibet and the challenges faced by its people. He thus calls attention to the endless stream of self-immolations, to the degradation of the Tibetan language within Tibet and also to the willful blindness of foreign governments and the media to the plight of the Tibetan people.
The exhibition will also unveil a monumental new work, the artist’s most ambitious painting to date. Landscape (2015), completed painstakingly in the artist’s unique pointillist-stroke method over the course of a year, demonstrates Rigdol’s masterful approach to painting and spotlights the chilling epidemic of self-immolations in Tibet.
