NEPAL EXPOSITIE TARAGAON MUSEUM
18 SEPTEMBER 2019 0PENING EXHIBITION PHOTOS MOVIES PAINTINGS MADE BY ED VAN DER KOOY ABOUT NEPAL IN THE YEAR 1978 . NEPAL EXPOSITIE, AT TARAGAON MUSEUM KATHMANDU My Nepal photo diary about the year 1978 Kathmandu, Kathmandu valley by Ed van der Kooy
i hope you will enjoy it. Photo's about Kathmandu ,Nepal 1978
1978 I made my first trip to Nepal. filmed a beautiful country. Weeks we stayed in Kathmandu.And the biggest adventure was a trek around the Annapurna.We had no maps, and no idea where we were going.But got help everywhere, of fantastic friendly people. By Ed van der Kooy. edkooy 1950s Old Nepal.chariot pulling festival BOTNATH Discover historic, old/rare photos, videos and arts of Nepal Lost Treasures of Old Nepal..must see and share kathmandu_EDKOOY ED VAN DER KOOY The Forgotten Kingdom of Nepal maker clip nepal portrait and the band no reply documentary edkooy boudhanath Nepal full documentary (very rare
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Taragaon Museum & Saraf Foundation - Intro
Nepal's only Museum of its kind.
The Museum houses a collection of maps, photographs, sketches & architectural drawings of Nepal's heritage.
In the compound of the Hyatt Regency Kathmandu stands the former Taragaon Hotel, designed by Carl Pruscha in 1970, constructed in 1971/72 and later slightly enlarged. The hotel closed in the 1990s when the Hyatt Hotel was planned. During the Hyatt construction process, 1997 to 2000, the hotel rooms were used by the team that guided and supervised the construction. After 2002 part of the complex was taken over by the management of the Casino.
After almost a decade, the Saraf Foundation expressed their wish to renovate and preserve the Taragaon Hotel and turn it into a Documentation Centre – documenting what artists, photographers, architects, anthropologists and Samskritists from abroad had contributed in the second half of the 20th century to identify, highlight and preserve the cultural heritage of the Kathmandu Valley.
The project will invite all scholars and architects who came to Nepal in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties to write down their personal experience. Emphasis is not on a complete record of publications and projects but on very personal views:
What made people love Nepal, what were the fascinating aspects of research and life in Nepal?
Some 50 people were asked to write short texts. Their work will be demonstrated by displaying publications, maps, original drawings, paintings and photographs as flat exhibits and probably also selected objects. One room will be adapted for the screening of films.
To become a contributor to the Taragaon Museum, or to get involved with The Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Traditions & Culture, you may contact
Roshan Mishra
museumdirect@taragaon.com
Taragaon Museum
Taragaon Museum
In 2009 Arun and Namita Saraf, patrons of Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Traditions and Culture expressed their wish to renovate and preserve the Taragaon Hotel to turn it into a Documentation Centre, a space where artists, photographers, architects and anthropologists from abroad who had contributed through their work in Nepal in the second half of the 20th century would be celebrated, to highlight their impact on Nepal’s cultural heritage.
In this regard, The Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Traditions and Culture sponsored the Taragaon Museum and the Nepal Architecture Archive (NAA). Until now around 40 scholars’ works have reached Taragaon Museum.
The Taragaon Museum, which opened to the public in 2014, displays the work of these exemplary individuals with the help of the NAA established in 2016 at the premises of Taragaon Museum, collects, preserves and documents the contributions of these individuals, allowing future generations to understand the Kathmandu Valley and its heritage.
The Foundation is keen on becoming the bridge between the foreign scholars, who have contributed towards the documentation of Nepal’s artistic splendor and let those invaluable assets return home to Nepal, and make them available for the future generations of researchers and scholars through the NAA.
HOMAGE | | A Group Exhibition 2017 | | Art Exhibition | | Taragaon Museum Bouddh | |Kathmandu ,Nepal
Homage, A Group Art Exhibition describes the physical and abstract factors in the form of installation art, video art and prints.
Name of Artists :
Amrit Karki
Bhuwan Thapa
Bibek Thapa
Kiran Baniya
Kiran Rai
Rajan Kaphle
Raju Pithakote
HOMAGE,a group exhibition(feb 27-march 4,2017)
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Chief Guest : Kiran Manandhar ( senior artist)
Organized By : DOORS contemporary Art Organization
Supported By: Divine Wines
Venue Partner : Taragaon Museum,Bouddha
Video By : CANDLELIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT
Taragaon Lecture Series-6 2018
Taragaon Museum organized Taragaon Lecture Series-6, on November 1, 2018 at Taragaon Museum, Bouddha. Taragaon Lecture Series is the initiation of Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Traditions and Culture. Taragaon lecture series was launched in 2015. Meanwhile, the Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Traditions and Culture supports the preservation, restoration and documentation of arts and heritage of the Kathmandu Valley, and the intellectuals who work selflessly towards these goals.
British architect John Harrison was invited for the sixth edition of Taragaon Lecture Series. Harrison was born in 1941 in the north of England. He studied architecture and town planning at Liverpool University, and then worked on historic buildings in architectural practice and at Liverpool City, and later in Pakistan, China, Russia and Jamaica.
Nepal is Harrison’s dreamland to stay close to the Himalaya and high mountains. In the autumn of 1985 he reached Nepal. At that time he had been travelling east for half a year after getting on the train in Liverpool Lime Street, through Turkey, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, and then the sight of the mountains: the Hindu Kush, K2 and Rakaposhi, Kashmir and Ladakh, Darjeeling and Kanchenjunga. He trekked from Pokhara through the middle hills, up the Kali Gandaki valley between Dhaulagiri and Annapurna and into the Tibetan Buddhist world of Mustang. North of Kagbeni was still the forbidden kingdom in 1985.
The lecture was followed by an exhibition of his architectural drawings of Mustang featuring around 100 such drawings.
Walkthrough taragaon museum part 1
Tom Glenn - Taragaon Museum
Tom Glenn, an American Photographer and a Designer, who first came to Nepal in the early 70's. Since his first visit he photographed and documented different heritage sites from Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur.
In 2017, Tom donated these works to the Taragaon Museum. His works are now also archived in the Nepal Architecture Archive (NAA), which is a part of the Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Tradition & Culture.
In the 70's when Tom lived in Boudhanath, he also started a carpet factory. His generation of people from Boudhanath still remember him as Boudha-Tom.
Klaus R. Kunzmann
Klaus R. Kunzmann
Klaus R. Kunzmann, renowned German architect and planner converted his experience of staying in Nepal as a book ‘Illustration: Nepal Memories.’ He first came to Nepal in 1982 on review mission, then in 1984 to evaluate the Bhaktapur Development Project (1974 to 1985). In 2016, Kunzmann was invited for third edition of Taragaon Lecture Series and he also had an exhibition.
Born in 1942, Kunzmann studied architecture and urban planning at Munich Technical University and received his PhD in Planning at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. As a policy advisor at European, national, regional and local levels, he has been involved in many urban and regional development projects.
During his two decades of travelling to Asia, he has been sketching the landscape of cities that were beyond the tourist circuits. And as a rule, his perspectives and motives are determined by convenient opportunities to sit quietly and undisturbed. For him places are embedded in cultural traditions, in art, and in craft environments, which reflect the past but also show pathways into the future. Drawing spontaneously, is a side activity for him mainly done on occasions linked to his profession as an urban planner active in academia.
Flavors Cafe
K Town Gigs
Hari Maharjan with Rigzin Lama playing a small set of gypsy jazz at the Flavors Cafe.
December 2016
Video Credit: Nepal Gypsy Jazz
BFA Show - Sirjana College of Fine Arts
Fourth Years Bachelors Students of Sirjana College of Fine Arts
Taragaon Museum
Boudha
Kathmandu, July 10, 2017
John Harrison - Taragaon Museum
Kathmandu Triennale 2017 (March 24 - April 9)
All exhibitions close on April 9. Have you seen them all?
Check them all out from Nepal Art Council, Siddhartha Art Gallery, The Taragaon Museum, Patan Museum, CALM, Nepal Tourism Board, Park Gallery, Newa Chen, Jhochen, to Kirtipur.
Download our event guide here: kt.artmandu.org/press
Video courtesy: Amuse Communication (Kathmandu Triennale Documentation Partner)
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HISTORY of Kathmandu Nepal my diary 1978 full documentary
We hope to see you all at 4:30 PM on Wednesday,18th of September.
Taragaon Museum & The Saraf Foundation invites you all to the exhibition of photographs from 1978 by Ed Van Der Kooy. He will also be displaying some paintings
Exhibition will remain open until the 28th of September. epal 1978, this is my video diary. made with an 8 mm camera.In 1978 I made my first trip to Nepal. filmed a beautiful country. I also made : In the late 70s and early 80s, I've made several trips through the Nepalese Himalaya 1978 Pokhara to Muktinath 1979 Around Annapurna 1980 Pokhara to Muktinath 1981 Langthan 1984 Jiri to Everest 1986 Jiri to Gokyo, this is my video diary. made with an 8 mm camera. By Ed van der Kooy .Weeks we stayed in Kathmandu.And the biggest adventure was a trek around the Annapurna.We had no maps, and no idea where we were going.But got help everywhere, of fantastic friendly people.some shots filmed 1979,early eighties . By Ed van der Kooy. edkooy 1950s Old Nepal full documentary.Seto Machhendranath chariot pulling festival BOTNATH Discover historic, old/rare photos, videos and arts of Nepal having huge archival and artistic values Lost Treasures of Old Nepal full documentary..must see and share kathmandu_durbar_square EDKOOY ED VAN DER KOOY The Forgotten Kingdom of Nepal maker clip princess shruti nepal portrait and forbidden kingdom lo monthang the band no reply documentary edkooy boudhanath Nepal full documentary (very rare
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last day of KUart exhibition 2015
नेपालको एक मात्र झ्याल || DESHEYAMARU JHYAA देशेय मरु झ्या: || NARDEVI, KATHMANDU NEPAL
One of the magnificent wooden window in a simple house at Nardevi known as “Deshemaru Jhya”.
The literal translation of “Deshemaru Jhya” is “only once piece in the whole country” and as the name says the window in the house of Yetkha is only of its kind in the whole country. It is really interesting as well as mysterious to see a wonderful piece of art in a normal looking house. Even before the rebuilding of this house in a modern style, it was just an ordinary Newar house. Therefore, some local people even claim that the way of saying “Deshemaru” was a sarcastic way of telling “showoff”.
Actually this window is a blind window without opening and this type of window is mostly used in the first floor of the Newar house, known as “Tikki Jhyaa”. Normally these types of windows are plain-looking with the lattices so that it gives privacy in the room refraining from outsiders to look inside while from inside through the holes the outside view is possible. Mostly the windows in the second floors of traditional houses are richer and lavishly decorated and known as “Saa Jhyaa” with the open access. In contrast to the normal Tiki Jhyaa this one is designed with multiple frames – one overlapping the other with a total of eleven frames and in the center is lattice, providing the three-dimensional look.
While much information is not available regarding its origin or how the plain-looking house ended up having such an amazing art. Even many tourists come to have a look at this outstanding piece of art, according to the shopkeeper in the house Rico Sthapit as is featured in the tourist guidebook. But neither he nor the owner of the house has much details regarding the window.
In the window there is a piece of wooden plate with some text and number written as Yet Tor Nambar (7)9 and according to Prof. Kashinath Tamot it means Yetakhaatolayaa 79 lyaayaachhen – 79 house number of Yetkhaa. It was the census of the houses done during the Rana time.
This window not only tells the story of the glorious past but also the present – the state of heritage conservation of Nepal. Despite being an example of excellent craftsmanship, it is not in a proper condition now. The window is in a concrete house where it’s clamped with the cement while wooden pieces are in the phase of deterioration. The room with that window is now leased by a tuition institute. Neither the owner of the house nor the government seems to be giving attention to the famed window.
According to some locals, the government wanted to take that window when the house owner was rebuilding the house. But the owner opposed and in order to avoid the Department of Archeology claiming the window, the owner built the house with the window hanging and then built the wall over it. If the authorities responsible had managed to pursue the house owner to build the house in a traditional manner, the fate of the window would have been different. In addition to that we must also consider the fact that heritage conservation then was mostly guided by the objects and antiquities and they had not embraced the holistic way of heritage conservation. But the irony is almost decades later the mindset of the authorities does not seem to change.
It is clear that nothing has been done for conservation of the “Deshyamaru Jhyaa” but everyone of us carry it in our Nepali passport page number 25. (COURTESY: SETOPATI)
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Wood Carving Exhibition At Taragaon Museum | Event
Taragaon Museum and The Saraf Foundation organised an event to inaugurate the 'Wood Carving: The Art Of The Newars' exhibition by Indra Prasad Shilpakar on July 1
NEPAL, KATHMANDU MY DIARY IT IS THE YEAR OF 1978
NEPAL, KATHMANDU MY DIARY IT IS THE YEAR OF 1978 YOU CAN SEE THIS MOVIE AT OPENING 18 SEPTEMBER 2019 AT TARAGAON MUSEUM KATHMANDU BY ED VAN DER KOOY. This movie is updated , better quality and some more information Taragaon Museum & The Saraf Foundation invites you all to the exhibition of photographs from 1978 by Ed Van Der Kooy. He will also be displaying some paintings he has painted special for this exhibition.We hope to see you all at 4:30 PM on Wednesday,18th of September.
Exhibition will remain open until the 28th of September.
Daily from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
MACRO KATHMANDU Himalayas
Heritage of the Kathmandu valley is filled with lots of the most wonderful of patterns, each of which was never repeated. Where every detail of architecture is an independent work of art. Nepalese craftsmen to breathe life into stone, metal, wood.Each of these wonderful parts requires separate consideration.This film is an invitation to the macrocosm heritage of the Kathmandu valley.
location : Nepal (Kathmandu) : Pashupatinath, Boddha, Patan, golden temple, Durbar square, kopan monastery, Pulkhakary monastery, Swayambhu.
duration: 43:35 min
camera & edition by Artur Abagyan
production: Artur Abagyan & RatnaVideo
date: 2013
country: Russia
contact: ratnavideo@gmail.com +7-908-6661193
Wolfgang Korn
Wolfgang Korn
Born in Dessau, German in 1943, Wolfgang Korn studied architecture at the Art College (Werkkunstschule) in Krefeld from 1963 to 1967. He applied to the German Development Service in summer 1967 for a project, and arrived Nepalon January 5, 1968 where he worked in the ‘Design Section’ of the Department of Housing and Physical Planning of His Majesty’s Government of Nepal. He prepared architectural drawings of temples in support of a comprehensive Physical Development Plan published in late 1969. These initial surveys were later extended and incorporated into two volumes published by UNESCO in 1975: “Preservation of Physical Environment and Cultural Heritage – Protective Inventory” and “Kathmandu Valley: Preservation of the Physical Environment and Cultural Heritage”, a protective inventory are still available in bookstores today; the first compilation of perhaps 99 percent of the temples and their locations. He also published “Traditional Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley”, having most extensive survey devoted to Pujarimath, Hindu priest-house, in Bhaktapur, in 1976. This book is the first book on Newar architecture documenting temples, monasteries, palaces and private houses, which has served as a standard reference to the present day.
Back in 1970 he had published an article on the architecture of the Kathmandu Valley in Germany’s most popular architectural magazine (Bauwelt), incorporating, among other things, a scale drawing of the Nautale Durbar, the nine-storied tower of the old Kathmandu palace. Amusingly, a professor of engineering from Zurich protested in a letter to the magazine claiming that the documentation must be based on pure fantasy because to his knowledge there was no way such a building could have survived unharmed.
Purna Kalasha By Bhuwan Thapa 'Bahuvi'
Monumental Sculpture Installed at Taragaon Museum during the Kathmandu Triennale 2017.
Purna Kalasha By Bhuwan Thapa 'Bahuvi'