The proceeds from all sales are used to fund the Missing Peace Project.
Photo Credit: Vassi Koutsaftis
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama is a multi-media art exhibition that brings together 88 respected artists representing 30 countries. The exhibition has been shown in Los Angeles and New York and will travel to Tokyo, Japan and other venues around the world for several years Many of the artists have created new work for the exhibition in a wide variety of media, including photography, painting, textiles, animation, and sculpture, video, and installation works. Artists with work in the exhibition include Bill Viola, El Anatsui, Richard Avedon, Christo, Guy Buffet, Chuck Close, Marina Abramovic, Herb Ritts, and Anish Kapoor. The Missing Peace is a collaboration between the Committee of 100 for Tibet and the Dalai Lama Foundation. The artists, both established and emerging, were selected because their work addresses themes that are embodied by the Dalai Lama: compassion, peace, unity of all things, impermanence, spirituality, belief systems, community, and people in exile, non-violence, happiness, and tolerance.
The artist, Sylvie Fleury asked for a personal item from the Dalai Lama so she could create an artwork to include his aura by way of a Kirlian photograph. Tenzin Tethong was going to be in Dharamsala around then where the Dalai Lama lives and he asked him about it. The Dalai Lama then gave him a pair of his shoes! Later, the nephew of the founder of Dexter shoes. requested a print of this work to give to his grandfather at age 92. Dexter shoes was responsible for the greatest number of jobs in that little town of Maine and he never took the business overseas. The artist did create another photograph for this purpose, but just as it was received, the grandfather (Harold Alfond) died. So the photograph will go into the cancer center he funded in the same town in Maine.
“One can not know the measure of a man A special invitation to acquire the shoes of His Holiness the Dalia Lama has given permission to make the unique offering of his Dexter shoes, which are currently touring with the Missing Peace Exhibition: Artists Consider the Dalai Llama. His Holiness' shoes are exhibited in a case with a photograph of them, by the renowned artist Sylvie Fleury. While Ms. Fluery’s lunious photograph of the shoes has been placed with a collector, the shoes worn by the Dalai Lama are available. The shoes covered many miles marking the spiritual footsteps of His Holiness, as he traveled the world spreading his message of Peace. During the course of his journeys, the Dalai Lama took great comfort from the shoes as he had them resoled several times. As Ms Fleury’s photograph of them depicts, they seem to radiate the energy field of his Holiness. The shoes will continue to tour with the art exhibition on it’s many stops around the world. The collector who acquires these shoes would, if desired, have a plaque commemorating his or her donation that accompanies the exhibit. The cost of acquiring the shoes is tax deductible as the funds go to the Missing Peace Project sponsored by Dalai Lama foundation and the Committee of 100 for Tibet. His Holiness' shoes are available through Baxter & Cook Art Advisors who are the sales agents for The Missing Peace Project: Artists consider the Dalai Lama. The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama is a multi-media art exhibition that brings together 88 respected artists representing 30 countries. With the full life of the Dalai Lama as inspiration, the intention for this project is to shift the world's attention towards peace. For inquires, please contact Holly Baxter at 415.350.5595 or Baxter.Holly@gmail.com Purchase of artwork in The Missing Peace Project accomplishes the following:
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