The exhibition “The Steppe’ opens

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The work of the Mongolian poet G.Mend-Ooyo encompasses many different genres, and can be seen as an example both of the traditional and the contemporary.

In 2006, Mend-Ooyo established an annual calligraphy exhibition.  In 2010, this took the form of a solo exhibition entitled “The Crystal Temple of Meaning,” and the following year he created, with D.Battömör, “Mother Earth,” which had a profound effect on those who saw it.
“Image from Poetry” is Mend-Ooyo”s melodic exposition of oriental poetics, and its individual pieces celebrate the natural world, revealing his deep connection with the traditions of Mongol culture.
This year”s exhibition focuses on contemporary calligraphy and in it, we can feel how, as well as showing the melody of colored inks, the texts are able to reveal the rhythm of the artistic heart.
Mend-Ooyo s born into a nomadic family, moving across the steppe, and his poetry reveals the movement of his ideas, as though across the broad and endless steppe.  This year, then, he has chosen to name the exhibition, with pieces from among the Mongolian Academy of Poetry and Culture”s collection, “The Steppe.”

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MOTHER EARTH exhibition

An Exhibition of Calligraphy
March 18-23, 2011
Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia


On March 18th, the exhibition "Mother Earth" will open at the Mongolian National Modern Art gallery. Thirty years ago, the poet G.Mend-Ooyo wrote a poem called "Mother Earth," for which the composer R.Enhbazar wrote music. Performed by the snger B.Badaruugan, this work connected with people's hearts, expressing the meaning of taking care of Mother earth.
In this exhibition, G.Mend-Ooyo and the artist D.Battümör combine their work, and ask us to care for nature, our Mother Earth, through poetry and image. It has become a tradition that, every year works are exhibited from the collection of the Mongolian Academy of Culture and Poetry and thus year, apart from Mend-Ooyo's own pieces, there are also pieces, based upon Mend-Ooyo's poems, by the influential contemporary artist D.Battümör, in addition to some eighty of Mend-Ooyo's calligraphic manuscripts.
In addition to looking into the future, we are also drawn to consider the valuable objets of wisdom in the history of humanity, its lost cultural heritage, and the importance of acknowledgeing its value.
In this exhibition we will see how Mend-Ooyo's poetry, combined with Battümör's talent for calligraphic ink and brushwork, reveals a new direction for the art of images and words, and a contemporary approach to calligraphy and the tradition of Mongol language arts.
The artistic work which comes from our heart are the plants of wisdom growing in our Mother Earth. People step upon the earth, they drink water and take nutrients from Mother Earth through the plants, and so take in the riches. The two artists say that, with the work in this exhibition, they contribute the light of their hearts, they repay the kindness of Mother Earth.