SHAMBALA OF THE MODERN TIMES, 2009

Modern + Contemporary Art
Melbourne
13 June 2018
51

GONKAR GYATSO

born 1961, Tibetan/British
SHAMBALA OF THE MODERN TIMES, 2009

silkscreen print in four parts

98.0 x 107.0 cm (overall)

edition: 48/50

signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image

Estimate: 
$20,000 – 30,000
Sold for $21,960 (inc. BP) in Auction 54 - 13 June 2018, Melbourne
Provenance

China Arts Project, Beijing
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2010

Exhibited

Tibet Art Now: on the threshold of a new future, Tibet Art Gallery, Temple, Amsterdam, 3 June – 6 July 2009 (another example)
Mapping Identity, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Philadelphia, USA, 19 March – 30 April 2010 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 17)
Three Realms, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 25 February – 29 April 2012 (another example)
Seeking Shambala, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, 6 March – 21 October 2012 (another example)

Literature

Smee, S., ‘In MFA Exhibit, Seeking Shambala, Everything is Illuminated’, The Boston Globe, Boston, 30 March 2012 (illus., another example)
‘Urban Legend’, Art & Antiques Magazine, Wilmington, USA, May 2012 (illus., another example)

Catalogue text

Gonkar Gyatso lives and works in London, United Kingdom

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015 Janela, Migrating Forms and Migrating Gods, Kochi-Muziris Biennial, India
2014 Tibet India, New Beginnings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2013 Freedom, just another word... Mass Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, USA
2013 The Weight of History, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2012 Shambala, Museum of Fine Art Boston, Boston, USA
2012 Three Realms, Institute of Modern Art and Griffith University, Brisbane
2010 Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
2010 The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2009 Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2008 A Question of Evidence, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2007 Thermocline of new Art Asian Waves, ZKM/Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 Tibet, Wereld Museum Rotterdam, Netherlands
1999 Limbers Due Tibet, Lyon City Gallery, France
1989 The National Avant-Garde Fine Art Exhibition-89, The National Art Gallery, Beijing, China

SELECTED LITERATURE
Wright, S. P., THREE REALMS: Gonkar Gyatso, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2011
Gyatso, N., Gonkar Gyatso : la peinture tibétaine en quête de sa propre modernité, Harmattan, Paris, 2005

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Immigration and Diversity Museum, London, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA
Newark Museum, New York, USA
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Queensland Art Gallery /Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands

REPRESENTED BY
Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
TAG Fine Arts, London