MAKING GODS AT ROSSI & ROSSI--artist Gade

This is pretty amazing art.  I love when pop culture gets this spin, particularly Spider-man---and an artist can create a deeper sense of history or mythology about a brand that really isn't that old.  Cool concept.

visit Rossi & Rossi site.

MAKING GODS AT ROSSI & ROSSI
Exhibition of New Works by Tibetan Artist Gade

Making Gods - Gade, the fourth in a series of solo exhibitions devoted to contemporary Tibetan artists, will be staged by Rossi & Rossi at 16 Clifford Street, Mayfair, London W1, from Wednesday 3 December 2008 to Friday 16 January 2009. A group of ten new works, a personal synthesis of traditional Tibetan painting with modern consumerism and pop culture, will be offered for prices from £9,000 to £26,000.

Gade was born in 1971 in Lhasa to a Chinese father and Tibetan mother and graduated from the School of Fine Arts, Tibet University in Lhasa, where he is now a lecturer, with a degree in Traditional Chinese Realistic Painting. Having grown up in Lhasa, Gade says that when he visited his father’s home in Hunan province the place felt very foreign to him. He has always been entranced by ancient Tibetan painting, especially old wall paintings that have survived for several hundred years, the originally pure, strong colours of which have become mottled with age. “Their surfaces glow with a kind of richness that gives testimony to profound experience. I seek to evoke the same kind of aura in my own works”, he says. At the same time Gade’s art perfectly embodies the changing experience of Tibet and its capital and is often full of humour.

MAKING GODS AT ROSSI & ROSSI
Exhibition of New Works by Tibetan Artist Gade

Making Gods - Gade, the fourth in a series of solo exhibitions devoted to contemporary Tibetan artists, will be staged by Rossi & Rossi at 16 Clifford Street, Mayfair, London W1, from Wednesday 3 December 2008 to Friday 16 January 2009. A group of ten new works, a personal synthesis of traditional Tibetan painting with modern consumerism and pop culture, will be offered for prices from £9,000 to £26,000.

Gade was born in 1971 in Lhasa to a Chinese father and Tibetan mother and graduated from the School of Fine Arts, Tibet University in Lhasa, where he is now a lecturer, with a degree in Traditional Chinese Realistic Painting. Having grown up in Lhasa, Gade says that when he visited his father’s home in Hunan province the place felt very foreign to him. He has always been entranced by ancient Tibetan painting, especially old wall paintings that have survived for several hundred years, the originally pure, strong colours of which have become mottled with age. “Their surfaces glow with a kind of richness that gives testimony to profound experience. I seek to evoke the same kind of aura in my own works”, he says. At the same time Gade’s art perfectly embodies the changing experience of Tibet and its capital and is often full of humour.