"Born Benpa Chungdak in Lhasa in 1971, Benchung studied as an exchange student in the Department of Graffiti Design at Tianjin Academy of the Arts in China from 1989 to 1992 when he moved to the Department of Arts at Tibet University in Lhasa. Here he gained a BA in Fine Art and, more recently, an MA in Visual Art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway. His work has been exhibited not only in Lhasa and Beijing but also as far afield as Tokyo, Oslo, Königswinter (Germany) and New York, as well as other American cities, but this is his first exhibition in the UK. Benchung's paintings are like a film sequence, where the narrator attempts to weave a continuous tale but the continuity is repeatedly broken. The setting is idyllic, with abundant flora and a constantly blue sky. Cropped male figures dominate his paintings, often with an absurd juxtaposition of elements: a headless figure hovers over a field of sunflowers, a man seen from the back with a mourning band on his arm holds a gun against his own sunflower head. (...) Despite the familiarity of flowers and colours, we enter a world where logic is contorted: the paintings are cropped and all the figures' heads are severed. In much of his work, Benchung's use of colour amplifies the charged atmosphere of the paintings. A thin layer of film covers the objects like a veil, regardless of the differences in local colour. The shadows in his work glow with saturated and intensified colour." http://www.rossirossi.com/contemporary/exhibitions/colourful.darkness/artworks undefined

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