Tenzing Rigdol /
Chitra Kala: Weaving Awareness through Time /
Mar 22 – May 10, 2025 /
Opening: Saturday, Mar 22, 12pm – 6pm /
Rossi & Rossi
11F, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road
Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
+852 2116 5282
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Art Basel Hong Kong
Booth 1B07: Siah Armajani
Kabinett: Szelit Cheung
Convention and Exhibition Centre
Mar 26 – 30, 2025
Rossi & Rossi is thrilled to announce Chitra-Kala: Weaving Awareness through Time, a solo exhibition on the work of Tibetan American artist Tenzing Rigdol (b. 1982). Derived from the Sanskrit words Chitra (light or awareness) and Kala (time or emptiness), the exhibition’s title Chitra-Kala translates to ‘art’. Reflecting a deep philosophical framework rooted in Eastern thought, it also speaks to the interplay between awareness and the passage of time.
Opening on 22 March 2025, the presentation, which features a new body of paintings and drawings, marks the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. It follows his large-scale 2024 Met commission Biography of a Thought – – a site-specific installation of paintings and carpets, which was juxtaposed with traditional Himalayan art and ritual objects in the museum’s exhibition Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.
Conceived alongside Biography of a Thought, the artist’s new works on view – inspired by the Buddhist notion that ‘life is an ocean of suffering’ – delve into the interconnected realms of thought, emotion and awareness. In them, Rigdol contemplates humanity’s tendency to cling to the turbulent currents of thoughts and emotions. These unprocessed, untamed memories linger as imprints in the mind, often obstructing inner peace. Chitra-Kala: Weaving Awareness through Time is therefore an invitation to find balance in one’s mind, to observe without the disturbance of thought and to exist in a state of melodic tranquillity.
