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SUMMARY: Artist’s Talk on Contemporary Tibetan Art
DESCRIPTION: Thursday\, December 1 5:00 pm Room 102 Frederic Lasserre Build
 ing 6333 Memorial Road\, UBC Contemporary Tibetan art has recently begun to
  receive great attention from museums and collectors worldwide. This new de
 velopment marks an exciting movement within the rich\, established lineage 
 of Tibetan art history. Tenzing Rigdol is one of the leading avant-garde ar
 tists\, producing […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>Thursday\, December 1<br />5:00 pm<br />Ro
 om 102<br />Frederic Lasserre Building<br />6333 Memorial Road\, UBC</p><p>
 Contemporary Tibetan art has recently begun to receive great attention from
  museums and collectors worldwide. This new development marks an exciting m
 ovement within the rich\, established lineage of Tibetan art history. Tenzi
 ng Rigdol is one of the leading avant-garde artists\, producing complex and
  thought-provoking artwork that are the products of collective influences a
 nd interpretations of age-old traditions. Strongly influenced by philosophy
 \, they capture the ongoing issues of human conflicts and have strong polit
 ical undertones. For Rigdol\, politics is an unavoidable element in his art
 . Indeed\, his artworks reconstruct traditional Tibetan ways of thinking\, 
 questioning and interrogating the complex foreign influences and eliciting 
 its own identity. His art—personal at its core\, yet intertwined with the e
 xperience of being a Tibetan in this post-colonial world—regenerates the di
 splaced voice.</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpH
 JL703qdAQq--LqTZPpc9YbL0zC-2cf9YaTqcYFqWBbliQ/viewform?c=0&w=1">RSVP for th
 e talk here.</a></p><p><strong>Tenzing Rigdol</strong> is a leading contemp
 orary Tibetan artist and activist\, born in Kathmandu\, Nepal in 1982 to Ti
 betan refugee parents. Rigdol’s work has been exhibited in important galler
 ies and museums in Europe and North America\, including the Metropolitan Mu
 seum of Art. In 2014\, Rigdol was one of only two contemporary Tibetan arti
 sts to be included in the exhibition Tibet and India: New Beginnings at the
  Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York. His “Pin Drop Silence: Eleven-Heade
 d Avalokitesvara” was also the first work by a contemporary Tibetan artist 
 to be acquired by the Met. Rigdol is perhaps most well known for his 2011 “
 Our Land\, Our People\,” a public installation in Dharmsala\, India created
  from some 20\,000 kgs of Tibetan soil smuggled across the border from Shig
 atse. Rigdol is featured in the film “Bringing Tibet Home” that documents t
 his extraordinary project.</p><p><em>This event is sponsored by the Himalay
 a Program\, the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program\, and the Department o
 f Art History\, Visual Art and Theory.</em></p>
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