Lionel Descostes at Bui Gallery

Opening: Fri 29 Oct, 6.30 – 9 pm
Art Talk: Wed 03 Nov, 7 pm
Exhibition: 30 Oct – 21 Nov 2010
The Bui Gallery

The Bui Gallery presents 10 Years in Hanoi in celebration of the hard work of Lionel Descostes over the past decade. Over these ten years, Lionel has experimented with an unusual artistic medium: embroidery.

After teaching himself and nine assistants the technique of single-thread embroidery, Lionel began a journey that would culminate ten years later in this comprehensive solo exhibition. With the craft rapidly disappearing in modernizing Vietnam, Lionel decided to use art to keep embroidery alive and support his community. The results of his unceasing commitment to experimentation and technique are extraordinary to behold, from mesmerizing grids to faces – masks – that gaze out from their frames.

For this exhibition, Descostes presents three “families” of his larger body of work: squares, grids and masks. Each of these groups explores from a different perspective the same theme: anonymity.

With 10 Years in Hanoi, Lionel Descostes brings this revelation to the fore in an unusual and insightful way.

For further inquiries, please contact Gillian Lee Sturtevant at: [email protected]

The Bui Gallery 23 Ngo Van So St., Hanoi, Vietnam tel: +84(0)4 39 44 85 95/ fax: +84(0)4 39 44 85 94 [email protected] www.thebuigallery.com