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| Remembering Tibet | ||||
| The Paintings of Sonam Dhondup | ||||
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June 6 to 11, 1999 Namgyal Monastery, Dharamsala, India On July 6th 1999, on the happy occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 64th birthday, AMI organised an exhibition of the paintings of Sonam Dhondup. Entitled, Remembering Tibet , the exhibition was inaugurated by Shri H.S. Yadav, Liaison Officer to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Shri. Yadav presented the artist with a khatag and also launched the catalogue of the exhibition. Many hundreds of visitors came to the exhibition which continued till July 11th. |
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Sonam Thondup, or "Soton" as he is known to his friends, is a young, essentially self-taught artist from Lhasa, who in his own words "has just begun" to find his true potential as an painter. Modest as this statement is it does not do justice to his ten years of continual effort to produce illustrations for every Tibetan booklet, newspaper, and children's magazines in Dharamshala that required them.. Yet Sonam Thondup is unhappy with his work and wants to paint the Tibet that he knew, and which he realises is changing and disappearing. The Amnye Machen Institute has organised this exhibition of Soton's paintings and published this catalogue as a part of our continual effort to encourage and promote not only Tibetan artists, but also writers, poets, scholars, filmmakers and other creative Tibetans. |
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| Soton's powerful representations of Tibet reveal the artist's concern and love for a land that remains undimmed in his mind's eye. | ||||
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| Continuum | ||||
| The Paintings of Karma Phuntsok | ||||
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March 26 to 31, 1999 Namgyal Monastery, Dharamsala, India AMI organised an unusual painting exhibition from March 26 to 31, 1999, at Dharamshala, The paintings of Karma Phuntsog (now living in the Australian bush) intrigued visitors at the exhibition. Here were works that were traditional thangka paintings in the sense of the accuracy and fineness of the iconometry of deities, but very modern, even futuristic in their concept, interpretation and spatial rationalisation. The artists use of new techniques and materials further contributed to the creation of this unique and dynamic expression of contemporary Buddhist art. |
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| The exhibition was opened by Ven. Prof. Samdhong Rimpoche, speaker of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, who also released the catalogue and presented a khatag to the artist. | ||||
| See our list books for more information on the catalogue of the exhibition | ||||
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| Shadow Tibet | ||||
| Images of Contemporary Reality by Manuel Bauer | ||||
| 17 to September 8, 1998 | ||||
| The partial opening up of Tibet to tourism has seen the proliferation of photographic representations of the country and people in books, magazines, etc. The images are usually vibrant with colour and nearly always focus on the out-of-the-world aspects of the country: the magnificent landscape, the amazing Potala Palace, the wildlife and the smiling people. However aesthetically pleasing, all these images are inadequate, sometimes even inaccurate representations of the contemporary reality of Tibet. AMI has organised this exhibition of the work of award-winning photographer Manuel Bauer to provide an alternative and realistic counterpoint to the prevailing visual representations of Tibet. Bauer is one of the few photographers of conscience who has willed himself to look under the picturesque surface of tourist Tibet and record the disturbing reality of the country today. | ||||
| The exhibition travelled to New Delhi and fifteen settlements and centres of Tibetans in India and Nepal. AMI received hundreds of letters of appreciation from visitors, especially from school children who felt that the exhibition had "informed us about the true unhappy situation inside Tibet and helped in creating greater political awareness among the younger generation". A parallel exhibition was organised in Switzerland. This exhibition was generously supported by Pro Helevetia, Arts Council of Switzerland. | ||||
| In every settlement and area mentioned in the itinerary, the exhibition was taken around on different days to neighboring villages, sub-settlements, schools and monasteries which fell within the purview of the named settlement or area. So in fact a far larger number of communities were were covered by the exhibition than the bare itinerary suggests. | ||||
| See our list books for more information on the catalogue of the exhibition | ||||
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Venues August 31 to September
8, 1998
June 8 to 12, 1998
June 1 to 5, 1998
May 25 to 29, 1998
May 18 to 22, 1998
May 12 to 16, 1998
May 4 to 8, 1998
April 28 to May 2, 1998
April 20 to 23, 1998
April 13 to 17, 1998
April 6 to 10, 1998
March 30 to April 3, 1998
March 10 to 15, 1998 February 17 to 22, 1998 |
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| Sea of Inhumanity | ||||
| Tibet in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | ||||
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October 29 & 30, 1996 Department of Information and International Relations, Dharamsala, India |
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| This exhibition which ran concurrently with AMI's conference, Tibet in the Cultural Revolution, featured rare photographs, special document, posters and paraphernalia of the period. Reproduced were copies of Party directives on the implementation of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, and nearly all the special "Tibet Daily" issues relating to the Cultural Revolution. Besides samples of Revolutionary Art, Mao badges, decals, plates, Little Red Books, etc., the exhibition featured a series of photographs of the trial and execution of those Tibetans who participated in the Nyemo Uprising (1967-69). | ||||
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| 100 Years of the Tibetan Press | ||||
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March 15 to 17, 1995 Bhagsu Hotel, McLeod Ganj, India |
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During the First National Conference of Tibetan Writers, AMI presented an exhibition depicting the development of the Tibetan language press through almost a century. On display were rare copies of the earliest Tibetan language newspaper published by Moravian missionaries in Ladakh (1903), the bulletin in coloquial Tibetan produced by the Manchu Ambans in Lhasa (1909), and "The Tibet Mirror", the first Tibetan newspaper (1925).
Tibetans in exile have published a wide range of newspapers and periodicals - some short-lived and long forgotten, others still continuing after decades of publication and some just started. These were well represented. Of particular interest were papers like "Gotog" published by the Tibetan National Volunteer Defence Force in Mustang (c.1967-c.1973), Nepal, and exhibits showing how individual papers and periodicals have changed over the years, not only in format, design and quality, but some even in name. His Holiness kindly consented to open the exhibition and showed keen interest in many of the displays. Some were unknown to His Holiness and others aroused a sense of nostalgia. |
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| The Third Eye | ||||
| Works of Three Tibetan Photographers | ||||
| July 6 to August 31, 1994 | ||||
| Photographs of Tenzin Dorjee, Jamyang Norbu and Lobsang Tsultrim Jeshong. | ||||
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Venues August 15 to 31,
1994
18 to 21 July, 1994 13 to 15 July, 1994 6 to 8 July,
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| Works of Gongkar Gyatso of Lhasa | ||||
| July 6 to August 25, 1993 | ||||
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Venues August 5 to 25,
1993
July 26 to 31, 1993
July 14 to 17, 1993
July 6 to 12, 1993
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