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Gonkar Gyatso "Banned" (Tibet)
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Frontispiece One
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330 x 320mm screenprint 607 x 428mm paper size
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| Artist statement: Gonkar Gyatso |
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| The human rights situation in my homeland, Tibet, is terrible. For many years Tibetans including monks and nuns have been put into prison, tortured and killed just for saying that they want Tibet to be free from China or for supporting his Holiness the Dalai Lama. |
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| I left Tibet seven years ago because I had no freedom as an artist. I had to leave my wife and daughter behind, they have now been able to join me in England, but we will never be able to go back to Tibet while it is occupied by the Chinese government. I miss the beautiful mountains and the sky in Tibet, they were my inspiration to paint. |
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