Tattvas Series

Chirag Bangdel's beautiful "tattva" series is featured in this month's HAPPINEZ magazine in Holland. The small-size (28 x 36cm) collage works can be purchased via the gallery, Below you will find the availability of the present series. Within a week or two the gallery will receive new works from this series, they will be featured here as soon as possible. Should you decide that the originals are too expensive or should you have taken a special liking to one of the originals already sold, please go to le-artshop.erichage.com (see Chautara Gallery there) where you can aquire LIMITED EDITION ARTPRINTS. These wonderful prints are produced in small series of only 25, are sized slightly larger than the originals (31 x 40cm), come on high-quality thick aquarell paper and cost Euro 75.

What the artist says about his work:

"For the past four years I have been working on a series which I call "Tattva". But the term "Tattva" has a larger meaning. It also means the essence or the reason for the creation of the universe. It's an abstract term - as abstract as my search over the years. I seek for a salvation (artistic? creative? spiritual?)  which I know never exists.

I create for the joy I get in the process of creating. My new works are "just" compositions. Every one of them is composed to create a certain feeling. And that feeling is something which can never be written about. I hope to create (at the risk of sounding cliché') a spiritual and a peaceful feeling. And I work mostly on Buddhist and Hindu religious motifs. Why? I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I am an artist and I have this need to create to satisfy my soul. So I need motifs. And now I am in this phase in my life when I seek peace and spirituality via my works. I might also be working on religious themes because every religion says that there is a God who is going to take away all the pain and make things all right and give us what is rightfully ours - peace. (Nepal has gone through a lot of violence over recent years.)

Why do I use prayer flags? I was born and brought up a Hindu but Buddhism always fascinated me. Prayer flags are made to purify the air. Landscapes with prayer flags fluttering provide you a certain sense of calm. But prayer flags themselves have a sense of tranquillity and mystery to them. Prayer flags are also made in five colours representing "pancha tattva" or the five elements each of one us are made up of."