Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu
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Born 1979, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Lives and works in Ulaanbaatar
Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu creates dreamlike works characterised by fine brushwork, innovative composition and an elegant use of colour. Drawing on traditional patterned designs to reflect the experiences of Mongolian women, Uuriintuya's paintings incorporate both poetic and everyday imagery, creating subtle contrasts between the manufactured and the natural or organic, and between intense, massed detail and flat planes of colour. Her paintings frequently include recognisable motifs from traditional Buddhist painting and East and Central Asian aesthetics, as well as psychologically charged imagery of contemporary life. Tumbash model XQ 2014 centres on the four harmonious animals of Buddhist mythology (bird, hare, monkey and elephant) forming a pyramid beneath a fruit tree and accompanied by a tangled mass of human figures and kitchen utensils. The massed figures and out-of-scale household objects reappear in Path to wealth 2013 and Unnamed energy 2014.
![Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu / Mongolia b.1979 / Tumbash model XQ 2014 An artwork depicting a chimpanzee sitting on top of an elephant; a knotted pile of people sits on the chimp's shoulders and, on top of that, a rabbit.](/system/files/styles/wide/private/object-images/DAGVASAMBUU_TumbashModelXQ_871.2014_001_source.jpg?itok=ydFxhnh7)
Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu / Mongolia b.1979 / Tumbash model XQ 2014 / Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / 150 x 150cm / Purchased 2015 with funds from Ashby Utting through the QAGOMA Foundation / © Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu
![Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu Artwork Path to wealth this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, created in 2013-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2015.006_001_3.jpg?itok=YlfbCswN)
Path to wealth 2013
- DAGVASAMBUU, Uuriintuya - Creator
![Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu Artwork Unnamed energy this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, created in 2014-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2015.007_001_4.jpg?itok=To6-28Es)
Unnamed energy 2014
- DAGVASAMBUU, Uuriintuya - Creator
![Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu Artwork Tumbash model XQ this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, created in 2014-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2015.008_001_3.jpg?itok=9H1YSkFE)
Tumbash model XQ 2014
- DAGVASAMBUU, Uuriintuya - Creator