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THBPin Drop Silence: Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara (Tenzing Rigdol)
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TimedOct 13, 2025 - Oct 23, 2025
The Tibet Fund's 2025 Gala Auction The Tibet Fund yangzom@tibetfund.org
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Details: Pin Drop Silence: Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, Signed Numbered Print (14/108), 24" X 45", 2013
Description: In this remarkable print of Tenzing Rigdol’s monumental 2013 painting, we encounter a traditional Buddhist deity, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, though the artwork itself is anything but conventional in form, material, or meaning. Rigdol uses a combination of acrylic paint, pastel, and pieces of manuscript pages assembled on paper to create a complex rendering of a multi-armed, multi-headed deity who emerges between the interlocking edges of a grid-like overlay. Although the main figure is recognizably sacred for Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, the work itself constitutes a radical departure from historical precedent, and reflects contemporary questions surrounding exile, activism, and cultural heritage.
About the Artist: Tenzing Rigdol was born in 1982 in Kathmandu, Nepal, after his Tibetan parents, Norbu Wangdu and Dolma Tsering, fled occupied Tibet in the late 1960s. Rigdol came to the United States in the late 1990s to study at the University of Colorado Denver, earning a BFA in painting and drawing and a BA in art history in 2005. Rigdol is a leading contemporary Tibetan artist whose work spans painting, collage, installation, and digital media. His art often explores themes of identity, displacement, and cultural memory, blending traditional Tibetan imagery with modern techniques. In 2011, his groundbreaking installation Our Land, Our People brought 20 tons of Tibetan soil into exile, symbolizing longing and belonging. Rigdol has been exhibited in major museums and collections worldwide, including a landmark solo 2024 show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. - Shipping Info
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