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<div><i><b>Nepal Art Now</b></i><br>
Contemporary Nepalese Art<br>
April 11-November 6, 2019<br>
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<b>Weltmuseum Wien</b><br>
Heldenplatz<br>
1010 Vienna</div>
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<div>The Weltmuseum Wien is hosting the most comprehensive exhibition
of modern and contemporary Nepalese art presented to date.
Approximately 130 works-including paintings, sculptures, video art
and installations-by some 40 Nepalese artists will be on display.
The exhibition begins with modernist works in Nepal from the 1950s
onwards and continues through to the present. Nepal Art Now emphasises
the socio-political turn in the work of Nepalese artists, and
questions relating to the construction of cultural identities in a
globalized world.<br>
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<div>The exhibition embraces a broad spectrum of artistic approaches
and expressive forms. In Vienna, visual artist Sheelasha Rajbhandari
presents an installation the thematic focus of which addresses the
issue of discrimination against women in patriarchal societies. Ang
Tsherin Sherpa's work draws its inspiration from Tibetan Buddhist
iconography. The artist abstracts, fragments and reconstructs
traditional forms of representation as means of exploring the
experiences of the diaspora. The works of the artist Hit Man Gurung
originated in response to some of Nepal's most pressing
socio-political issues, such as labour migration, civil war, political
corruption, and the devastating earthquake of 2015.<br>
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<div>Nepal's traditional religious imagery to which the public is
accustomed to viewing as works of art displayed in museums, is the
work of anonymous masters. They become pure works of art only once
exhibited in museums and integrated into the global art canon, and
thus unleashed from their original religious context. And yet the
preponderance of contemporary art emerging in Nepal presents itself
quite differently. Thus, in the show<i> Nepal Art Now</i>, the term
"contemporary art" refers not to an art genre, but simply signifies
a temporal dimension: It refers to that which has emerged over the
last half century. The selection of paintings, sculptures and
installations, carefully made in close collaboration with Nepalese
artists and art historians, mirrors the diversity of what could be
created in a day. The spectrum ranges from purely abstract works to
traditional, spiritual-religious Paubha painting.</div>
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<div>Christian Schicklgruber, Director of the Weltmuseum Wien,
developed the exhibition in collaboration with two curators from
Nepal-the art historians Dina Bangdel (1963-2017) and Swosti
Rajbhandari Kayastha. Furthermore, a presentation curated by Claire
Burkert awaits the public featuring pictures by female artists in the
style of the Maithil culture located along the border region with
India.<br>
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<div>The exhibition's cooperation partner is the Kathmandu-based
Nepal Art Council. The exhibition was previously held in
Kathmandu.<br>
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