The exhibition “Tibet Art Now 3.0” – “Nostalgia over the edges”, is our third one, during the last decade. It is an amalgamation of artworks by Tibetan Artists from India, Nepal, Bhutan and Lhasa Tibet, who are masters Artists or less well known yet emerging Artists. The Exhibition retraces a special era in Human history, which profoundly challenged Tibetan Artists, have exorcised a challenge by making the great movement in Tibetan Art, from the traditional and the strict religious into the modern; with their canvases using all kind of media, mastering abstraction and surrealism, extracting sacred symbols from their religious environment, able to challenge today’s world.

It is a new generation of Tibetan Artists sharing with the family and elders, nostalgic times in Tibet, before the Chinese invasion; yet sharing the experience of those days of invasion in Tibet, when China gained full control over it and the historical event of 1959 mass exodus of 150,00 Tibetans, including the leader of Tibet 14th Dalai Lama into the diaspora. It was during that exodus, when the genesis of a new form of Tibetan Art happened. This situation allowed the immigrants to raise interest on their country’s Art, History and Culture. When the social reality of life in Tibet disillusioned, Artists started to self-express and explore their new complex identity. During their stay in the historic capital of Lhasa, they were also forced to abandon the traditional religious subjects and be trained in the techniques of the West, in such a style, that would serve the new political agenda. When Tibetan structure was dissolved and questions arose on globalization, highly affected the identity of the Tibetans of the Diaspora. Until then, historical Tibetan Art followed the stereotype of traditional Thangka painting and was supposed to spread to the world the Tibetan religious Art and Culture, which was served as the transmission of their religion.