Realms and Cemeteries
Takpa Gallery is honored to present ‘Realms and Cemeteries’, the first solo exhibition of master thangka painter Urgen Dorje. The exhibition brings together works navigating the diverse realms and cemeteries within ‘Bhavchakra’, the Buddhist symbol of the wheel of life, wherein the artist inspects and reiterates the stories within these mythical spaces. Painted in a traditional Thangka style, the artist reimagines the realms into individual paintings in order to explore the layered symbols and dynamics within them.
Additionally, the show brings together three distinct works from the artist’s...