Gerardo Bravo García

Present

MANDALAS POR UN TIBET LIBRE

MANDALAS FOR A FREE TIBET

El Motivo De La Existencia Del Universo Es El Momento Presente

The Universe Exists For The Present Moment


	MANDALA I TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA II TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA III TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA IV TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA V TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA VI TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA VII TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA VIII TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA IX TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA X TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA XI TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA XII TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA XIII TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA XIV TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA XV TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA XVI TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007
	MANDALA XVII TEMPERA, GOLD LEAF & NEWS PAPER ON PANEL 49X33 INCH Year 2007

The UN General Assembly passed resolutions condemning China for "violations of fundamental human rights of the Tibetan people" in 1959, 1961 and 1965.German Federal Parliament held hearings on Tibet on June 19 1995, and passed a resolution on June 20 1996 stating they were "deeply concerned that this independent identity has been threatened by destruction since the Chinese action by brutal force of arms in 1950" and that China had deprived the Tibetans of self-determination. The US Congressional Human Rights Caucus in 1987 reviewed testimony from Tibetans who detailed human rights abuses, resulting in a congressional motion that condemned Chinese actions in Tibet. In 2006 a lawsuit was filed by the Madrid-based Committee to Support Tibet in a Spanish court. The group said that more than one million Tibetans had been killed or gone missing since China occupied Tibet in 1951.Samdhong Rimpoche the 14th Dalai Lama, and other Tibetans in exile have accused the PRC government of a campaign of terror which led to the destruction of monasteries and disappearance of up to 1.2 million Tibetans. By 1962 only 70 of the original 2,500 monasteries in the Tibet Autonomous Region were left and 93% of the monks were forced out. The "1.2 million" figure for deaths since 1950 dates to a figure from the Tibetan Government-in-exile which they break down to 433,000 through military action, 343,000 through famine, 173,000 through imprisonment, 157,000 through execution, 93,000 through torture and 9,000 through suicide.

In the Buddhist tradition the ‘mandalas’ are geometric representations, which are employed as an aid to meditation, the purpose of which is to end human suffering and attain a proper perspective of reality by focusing our attention on the present time. Each work in this series is a metaphor on the traditional purpose of meditation to get a real perspective of reality. A perspective of what it’s really happening and not only what the media is high lighting. I use a day’s news as a backdrop this highlights inside a clock the significance of the Tibetan present. Geometric pattern of hearts and archetypes represent the culture thoughts and emotions.

El MOTIVO DE LA EXISTENCIA DEL UNIVERSO ES EL MOMENTO PRESENTE

THE UNIVERSE EXISTS FOR THE PRESENT MOMENT

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