Gurung and Karmacharya are the recipients of The Australian Himalayan Foundation Art Award Program 2011.[break]
Since 2010, The Australian Himalayan Foundation has been endowing two promising Nepali artists with a special fund that allows them to work towards an exhibition after a period of one year at Siddhartha Art Gallery.
In the introduction by Sangeeta Thapa, Art Curator and Director of Siddhartha Art Gallery, she states that the works by Gurung and Karmacharya will showcase their artistic progress, and a new dimension on their art has become manifest due to The Australian Himalayan Foundation Art Award Program.
“Stories from the Locality” by Hitman Gurung, according to the painter himself, are the visual stories that are closely linked with real-life stories. “But the stories are fictional, and they aren’t the real-life stories of the characters. The characters are chosen according to the individual concept of each story,” says Gurung.
“Some Nepali cultural motifs, symbols, icons and colors are bound to particularly auspicious occasions. [Likewise,] I’ve tried to incorporate these symbols with the popular culture in my paintings,” comments Laxman Karmacharya on his body of work, “Fantasized Idea.” Accordingly, it is titled so because the art bears his fantasy to merge the cultural boundaries.
The exhibition at SAG will be inaugurated by the Australian Ambassador to Nepal, HE Ms. Susan Grace, on Wednesday, May 18 at 5:30 pm.
Peter Hillary, Director of The Australian Himalayan Foundation, and Simon Balderstone, Chairman of the Foundation, will be the chief guests at the event.
For further information, visit www.siddharthaartgallery.com
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