Ricardo Mazal

Artist Ricardo Mazal's multimedia explorations plumb the depths of human experience.

Descubre el estudio del artista mexicano Ricardo Mazal ubicado en Santa Fe, Nuevo México.

Sundaram Tagore had his first taste of the Venice Biennale as a graduate student, when a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Culture landed him in the city to study museology at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Now, 26 years on, with eponymous galleries in New York, Singapore, and Hong Kong, Tagore has returned to mount his own exhibition to run alongside the 56th Venice Biennale.

Gallerist Sundaram Tagore's 2,500 sq ft Mid-Levels flat is filled with artwork that speaks volumes about his family.

Painter Ricardo Mazal talks about spirituality and his show Kailash: Black Mountain.

「当我们大为谦卑的时候，便是我们最接近伟大的时候。（We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility）」这是曾获诺贝尔文学奖的印度大文豪泰戈尔（Rabindranath Tagore）让人耳熟能详的名句。他周游列国，与徐悲鸿、谭云山为友，对促进东西文化最落力，描写也最为细腻，甚至影响中国一代诗风。个半世纪后，泰戈尔对文化融通的深层视野仍然像基因遗传在第五代子孙Sundaram Tagore 的血液里。 「当我曾曾祖父拿到诺贝尔文学奖后，把奖金都捐到大学去，他深信人道主义（humanity）而非民族主义（nationalism）会令世界变好。我也深受影响，艺术不是商品也不只讲求美轮美奂，最重要是有没有达到历史解码的功能。」Sundaram Tagore这印度大文豪之后如是说。他更侃侃而谈「文化冲击」作为自己收藏和经营事业的单一准则与品味。

Sundaram Tagore Gallery has been named one of the top galleries in the world by Blouin Artinfo and Modern Painters magazine.

Sundaram targets the West Kowloon Cultural District as the gallery’s future location and plans to introduce local artists to the international art scene.

"A Hong Kong gallery is taking an upbeat attitude by presenting major names in its exhibitions [...] Even as galleries along the city's arts and antiques hub, Hollywood Road axe show and offer fewer high-priced works to tide over the global credit crunch, Sundaram Tagore continues to showcase major pieces by the artists it represents."

Art historian Sundaram Tagore's doctoral thesis looks at Indian artists' response to European modernisation from the 1940s to 1980s. As a curator, however, his focus is more on the here and now. Hence the title of his gallery's latest group exhibition by 18 international artists, which opens today at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery's Hong Kong branch.

"After taking hundreds of photographs, Mazal repeated the steps he developed by blending them with cropped art on his computer. He produced digital sketches, some horizontal and some vertical, to showcase his different interpretations of the forest."