An adventure, a passion, a thirst for exchange. Johnny isn�t a �buyer�, be offers himself his woks as a means of sharing his treasures. In his personnel collection, he has Picasso, Mathieu, Survage�and many others reassure him as he hunts, discovers other new creators.

Twenty-two years of daily exaltation have made this gallery owner discard his intellectual approach to art in favour his intuition, to choose the artist that will or has become a name.
At the moment he is concentrating on the creation of an itinerant exhibition of chosen works where he will also exhibit his prot�g�s Julien Martello, Annick samaurow, Nicolas Jonval.
But in the meantime, push open the door to �Arista� and Johnny will guide you through the three floors, take you into the story of art, and maybe you will come across the object that you have always been looking for. In art, chance has no role to play, all is the fruit of an encounter between the public, an artist and a gallery owner, whose only role is to reveal.

Nicolas Jonval

No doubt from the quickness of his stroke is born revelation. In his abstract world, everything is in collision, born in matter, born in colour, movement creates surprise. Thought a line, a stroke, a shading, an eye unfolds, a face appears. A story is portrayed.

In permanent
Picasso, Cesar, Arman, Nicolas JONVAL, Annick Samaurow, Julien Martello, Mathieu, Jiri Colar,Schneider, Olivier Debr�, Blasko, Tommaso Cascella, L�opold Survage, Edouard Pignon, Esther Morisse, Atlan, Irina Makarova, Roberto Matta, Gianangelli, Latta, ….

Website: Nicolas Jonval
Contact email: jonval@9online.fr

Rossi & Rossi are delighted to announce the opening of their new gallery on the ground floor of 16 Clifford Street, an 18th century townhouse in Mayfair, London W1, on 1 September 2007. This move, with double their current exhibition space, will enable them to give greater prominence to contemporary Asian art as well as continuing to show the traditional Tibetan and Himalayan art for which they are 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 and innovative art being produced by Asian artists today, particularly Tibetan. The Rossi & Rossi gallery at 16 Clifford Street will be one of the few galleries in Europe where the best of the arts of Asia, both past and present, can be seen.

Rossi & Rossi�s opening exhibition Consciousness and Form: Contemporary Tibetan Art takes place from Friday 5 to Friday 26 October 2007 and will be a continuation of this dialogue between past and present, exhibiting the work of an exciting group of eight talented artists with Tibetan heritage. Four of the artists live in Tibet and four in the West, thus 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. When artists migrate, when different cultures meet and mingle, the fusion from these encounters and the resulting art is constantly evolving, turning; it is transnational, transcultural, multicultural, never standing still. Rossi & Rossi will exhibit the most exciting contemporary artists whose work best reflects our constantly changing times.

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, symbolises 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.

who was born and lives in Tibet but lived for eight years in India says: �People always try, or pretend, to read your society and your background through your work with the baggage of their own expectations and experience. We all know that political and cultural distinctions provide attraction, but there is the high danger that people just engage with a cultural mask in the end. I believe the banality of play between consciousness (reaction) and form (art) can be more genuine. Work as form and its interrelation with people as consciousness is what counts.�

The exhibition follows the success of Rossi & Rossi�s ground-breaking London exhibition From Classic to Contemporary: Visions from Tibet in 2005 and their 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 for prices ranging from around $5,000 up to around $30,000. All these contemporary exhibitions highlight Rossi & Rossi�s commitment to nurturing emerging talent from Asia and bringing it to a broader audience.

Visitors to this exhibition of contemporary paintings, photographs, drawings and prints and mixed media, will also be able to view a selection of earlier works dating from the 12th to the 17th centuries including two wonderful gilt copper alloy sculptures set with semi-precious stones. One is a 13th century Nepalese figure of Vasudhara, the Buddhist goddess of abundance, wealth, good fortune and fertility, shown in all her voluptuous magnificence, the other is an unusually large figure of Sadakshari Lokeshvara, the most popular Buddist bodhisattva in the Tibetan pantheon. It is an important example of the fine metal-working tradition of the Khasa Malla kingdom in Western Nepal/Western Tibet which flourished during the 13th and 14th centuries and is extraordinary for its elaboration and luxury indicating it may have been a royal commission.

A magnificent 13th century Central Tibetan painting, distemper on cloth, depicts one of the five celestial Buddhas, Sarvavid Vairocana, the Omniscient Illuminator, preaching to an harmoniously arranged chorus of celestial beings. The enthroned, three-headed Buddha is adorned with lavish accoutrements including crown, earrings, necklaces, armlets, anklets and belt and a lower garment of richly designed textiles. The painting was created by an artist with remarkable skill and sensitivity and is unusually large for the period (148 x 115.5 cm).
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Anna Maria Rossi founded Rossi & Rossi Ltd in London in 1985. In 1988 her son Fabio joined her and together they established a reputation as leading dealers in Indian and Himalayan art, early Chinese and Central Asian textiles and works of art. In recent years they have additionally staged exhibitions of Tibetan and Chinese contemporary artists as well as Western artists who have worked in the East. These contemporary exhibitions have been met with critical acclaim and a positive audience response, bringing them to the forefront of the thriving contemporary art market.

Rossi & Rossi�s clients include distinguished private collectors as well as many major museums worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Tokyo National Museum and the Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Catalogues written by leading scholars accompany most of their exhibitions and forums which are open to the public are held to discuss the works with the artists, scholars and collectors alike.
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Exhibition title: Consciousness and Form: Contemporary Tibetan Art
Exhibition dates: 5 to 26 October 2007
Venue: Rossi & Rossi Ltd, 16 Clifford Street, London W1S 3RG
tel. +44 (0)20 7355 1804, www.rossirossi.com
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5.30 pm, Saturday 6 and Saturday 13 October,
10 am to 4 pm, other Saturdays by appointment
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Consciousness and Form: Contemporary Tibetan Art
Participating Artists

Kesang Lamdark was born in Dharamsala in 1963 and grew up in Switzerland. After apprenticing and working as an interior architect there, he studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York, and Columbia University. Searching for an appropriate cultural space for himself, he always felt like an outsider until eventually he came to understand and reconnect with his heritage while living in the West. His displaced, multi-cultural upbringing allowed him a broad personal energy. As an artist, he combines unusual materials and, ultimately, his life and work are about bringing together the unfamiliar. From Tibet to India, Switzerland to America, from hair to plexi and butter to nail polish, his unusual background is the driving force behind his art.

Tenzing Rigdol was born in 1982 in Kathmandu and studied art and art history at the University of Colorado where he is pursuing an MA in philosophy. He has extensively studied Tibetan sand painting, butter sculpture and Buddhist philosophy in Nepal, gained a degree in Tibetan traditional thangka painting and is an accomplished poet. In 2002, he and his family were granted political asylum in the USA and he lives in New York. Rigdol�s paintings are the product of collective influences and interpretations of age-old traditions; they are influenced by philosophy, often capture the issues of human conflicts and have strong political undertones � politics is an unavoidable element in his art.

Palden Larz Weinreb was born in 1982 in New York, where he studied art and still lives. He graduated from Skidmore College in 2004 and has worked at the Rubin Museum of Art. His work concentrates on drawing, painting, lithography and new media. He recently returned from spending time with his Tibetan family in Lhasa and said: �While exploring connections of heritage, I engaged in a deep cultural immersion and performed extensive research in contemporary aesthetics and customs.�

Nortse was born in Lhasa in 1963. Between 1984 and 1991 he studied at Tibet University in Lhasa, and the Art Academies of Guangzhou and Tainjing. His works have been shown in various group exhibitions in Lhasa, London and Beijing. The works he is exhibiting are an emotional statement about the post-Cultural Revolution Tibetan world when Tibetans had to start again after so much destruction.

Tsewang Tashi, born in 1963 in Lhasa, is a founding member of the Gedun Choephel Artists� Guild. In 1984 he graduated from the Central University for National Minorities in Beijing. He also completed a Master�s Degree from the National College of Art and Design in Norway and is currently Associate Professor at Tibet University. His works have been exhibited in international museums and galleries and he has published papers on Tibetan art education and painting. Tashi uses his physical environment, real people and contemporary life as sources of inspiration. He avoids incorporating certain elements in his work that would perpetuate the myth of Tibet as Shangri-la and believes that contemporary art cannot be created when contemporary life is ignored.

Gade was born in 1971 in Lhasa and is a founding member of the Gedun Choephel Artists� Guild. His works have won various prizes in Chinese exhibitions and he has exhibited in Japan and Malaysia. In 2001-2 he became an Artist in Residence in New York and in 2003 was Artist in Residence at the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre in Scotland. After studying Chinese painting and art history in Beijing, Gade returned to using traditional Tibetan painting techniques but with a modern twist. He does not wish to depict Tibet as a mythical land that only exists in text books but to paint it as a country in transition, shaped by present realities and connected to the outside world. Gade�s paintbrush is a thread that connects past and present; his works depict a culture that speaks of antiquity as well as modernity.

Tsering Nyandak was born in Lhasa in 1974. From 1985 to 1993 he lived and studied in Dharamsala (India). In 1993, after returning to Tibet, he started studying art under Tsewang Tashi. He has participated in various exhibitions in China, Germany and Nepal and is a founding member of the Gedun Choephel Artists� Guild. For Tsering Nyandak, being an artist is about self-expression and is not culturally stereotypical.

Gonkar Gyatso was born in 1961 in Lhasa and studied in Beijing and London. Founder of the contemporary Tibetan art gallery The Sweet Tea House, he is currently based in London. He was the recipient of a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2003 and became Artist in Residence at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. His work has been internationally published and exhibited in such galleries and museums as The Chinese National Art Gallery (Beijing), The Kangra Museum (India), The Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (Scotland), the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Colorado University Art Museum and Collections (USA). Works by Gyatso are now held in the Newark Museum (USA), the Pitt Rivers Museum and numerous private collections. Gyatso�s work charts the subtle shifts in identity and belonging triggered by the experience of migration. Having lived in Tibet, China, India and the West, Gyatso�s art comments on hybridity and modernity in these different cultures and traditions.

Website: Consciousness and Form
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