Gonkar Gyatso Presents New Works at 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

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Gonkar Gyatso - "Spring, 2008", (2009) - Pencil, ink and stickers on paper, 154 x 220 cm. - Courtesy: The Artist and Rossi & Rossi, London.

QUEENSLAND.- Rossi & Rossi Ltd. announced that
Gonkar Gyatso will participate in the ’6th Asia Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art’.
On view are two new works, “Reclining Buddha –
Shanghai to Lhasa Express” and “Spring 2008″, along with a third, “Angel”, from
the permanent collection of the Queensland Art Gallery. Gonkar Gyatso was born
in Lhasa in 1961, and studied in Beijing and London. Currently based in New
York, in 2003 he was the recipient of a Leverhulme fellowship and Artist in
Residence at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. His work has been
internationally exhibited in galleries and museums in Asia, Europe and North
America. It will be the artist’s first exhibition following his inclusion in the
‘Arsenale’ at the ’53rd Venice Biennale’ in summer of 2009.

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Source: Art Knowledge News

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