This exhibition brings “the portrait” back into a space where we can share our thoughts, ideas and hopefully learn something about ourselves. From Giv Lowe’s Facebook Page

What is the place for the portrait in contemporary society?

From the realistic,the iconic and the abstract depictions of the Human Face we are faced with the image of ourselves reflected back at us. The selfie can be seen as the contemporary version of the self portraits that Van Gogh, Frida Khalo, Almada Negreiros among others, painted throughout their lives. The difference with creating a work of art that is portraiture as opposed to the selfie is that the artist creates it to find a deeper meaning either in the depiction of themselves or others. This Giv’ Your Face brings “the portrait” back into a space where we can share our thoughts, ideas and hopefully learn something about ourselves.

Artist and friend Aditya Aryal from Kathmandu is part of Giv’ Your Face

Part of Tings is to spot, involve and support talent. In Kathmandu with help young contemporary artists. Firts time we met Aditya was back in 2012 where he was part of Art@Tings first exhibition with Nepalese art. Since then Aditya has devoleped his talent a lot. He has been part of group shows in London, New York & Copenhagen and a few collectors are picking up his works. Two months ago Aditya Aryal arrived back in Kathmandu from a 3 months succesfull art tour in Europe that took him to Copenhagen, Norway, Finland, and Schwitzerland to an invitation to participate in Giv’ Your Faces. Check out Aditya Aryal’s art here.