黑料不打烊

Pema Tshering (TINTIN) is an artist who lives and works in Bhutan and draws on the rich Buddhist visual culture of his land and belief systems. The work presented in this exhibition was created from 2023 to 2025 and represents his personal visual interpretations of the fundamental Tibetan Buddhist teachings and practices found in texts popularly translated as the 鈥淭ibetan Book of the Dead.鈥� The teachings focus on Bardo, meaning 鈥渋ntermediate state,鈥� and instruct on how one鈥檚 awareness progresses from one life to the next.

However, these teachings are meant to guide a practitioner not only during the passage from one life to rebirth, but during the experience of life itself, as well as in dreams, for according to Buddhists, the reality and life with all the happiness and suffering are but an illusion.

Pema Tshering鈥檚 (TINTIN鈥檚) paintings attract the viewer by his skillful and careful application of pigments, deliberate choice of colors, intriguing forms, and revealing titles. It is possible to read into the paintings even before fully knowing the artist鈥檚 intent or conceptual framework expressed in the images that comprise a particular work.

Each viewer鈥檚 perceptions, expectations, and visual associations inform and always affect how one perceives and relates to art.

This may be especially true for Pema Tshering鈥檚 work, because he is using traditional painting techniques, symbolic elements of iconography, composition and color, as well as the recognizable form of Tibetan Buddhist hanging scrolls called thangka. At the same time, he is expanding the iconographic forms and rules, subverting hierarchies of traditional compositions, and constructing new personal connotations he shares with the audience. He is inviting the viewers to look into the seemingly familiar and to get through to a new meaningful encounter.