Silk Purses

Collage prints by Reepak Shakya
Haiku captions by Charles Henri Ford

Par Hasard

Photographies par Indra Tamang
Haiku sous-titres par Charles Henri Ford

You are cordially invited to the opening
on Saturday, October 13, 1984 at 4 PM

The exhibition will continue through
Tuesday, November 6, 12:30 PM - 6 PM (Tues.-Sat.)

Telephone 2-14545 for further information

The October Gallery

Hotel Vajra
Bijayswori, Swoyambhu,
Kathmandu, Nepal

CHRONOLOGIES

REEPAK SHAKYA was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1964. The collage-prints in this exhibition were composed during the summer of 1984 on the island of Crete, in the Operation Minotaur studio of Charles Henri Ford. Ford says of young Shakya, "His spontaneous collages exemplify Neo-surrealism at its most marvelous and instantaneous."

INDRA TAMANG was born in 1958. During the past ten years, in addition to his native Kathmandu, he has resided in New York, Paris and in Greece, and has traveled in India, Great Britain, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. His work, as photographer and collalist, has appeared on the jackets of books by Charles Henri Ford and by Paul Grillo, and in the periodicals Lost & Found Times, Black & White, The Rising Nepal, Assembling edited by Richard Kostalanetz, and will appear in forthcoming numbers of Frank and New Sins. His work was exhibited at Books & Co., New York, and will be included in the Mail Art show scheduled for later this year at the University of Chicago.

CHARLES HENRI FORD was born in Mississippi. Books of his early poetry were prefaced by William Carlos Williams and by Edith Sitwell, with drawings by Tchelitchew and by Matta. His latest book, Om Krishna III: Secret Haiku, was published by The Red Ozier Press (1982), with drawings by Isamu Noguchi. Ford is also a graphic artist, film-maker and photographer. His first show, in Paris was introduced by Jean Cocteau. His exhibition, The Kathmandu Experience (1975), at The New York Cultural Center, included sculptures in wood, embroideries in silk and appliques, all executed by Nepalese craftsmen from Ford's original designs. Residing in Kathmandu, he is now at work on a full-length book-MS, Haiku from a Nepalese Notebook.