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Early Contemporary Art in Post-Soviet Mongolia: Where is the Green Horse Galloping Now?

Tsevegjav Ochir, Ekhiin tsagaan setgel (Mother’s White Mind), 1968, oil on canvas, 78 × 57cm. Courtesy the Mongolian National Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar
Tsendpurev Tsegmid presents the collective work of the Green Horse Society, pioneers of contemporary art in post-Soviet Mongolia. 1998 was my first year as an art student. I was only eighteen years old. Art in Mongolia was taught as something you learn how to make. There were rules to follow: art was meant to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye.  

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