HCMC – Sunday’s Superhero
24 Feb – 01 Mar, 9 am – 9 pm daily
PI-CHANNEL shop, upstairs
31B Le Thanh Ton
District 1, HCM City
A window until the rains come: albb Open Studio Program has officially launched with a project by its first artist, Tran Minh Duc.
In his room, the superhero is spending his days tailoring a new suit for himself. After all his breathtaking activity to save the world, he returns to his little room and with needle and thread he sews himself a costume suitable for the superb human being with magical abilities that he is. An ordinary room with soft music — just loud enough to be able to hear it — and personal pictures hung on the walls. He sits and tailors away in the soft music. On the other side of the window, the world keeps changing, but in that room, everything passes in easy peace, just like on an ordinary Sunday.
Drop in and visit Tran Minh Duc as he designs and tailors his superhero suit in the open studio, surrounded by images and documents of superheroes that he has collected and used to decorated the studio walls.
Tran Minh Duc is an independent graphic designer and emerging visual artist. He studied at the College of Culture and Arts, Ho Chi Minh City. Born and raised in Saigon, he has a deep fondness for this city — the way it wakes up in the morning, the way it moves, its particular lifestyle and habits. Duc first worked with albb on the Bao Loc Project, 2007, where, while assisting Nguyen Kim To Lan he created his own independent project called Standing There for One Night. He also recently took part in the group exhibitions Blink at Sàn Art and We promise you a kiss, at Vân Art Gallery in HCM City. He is part of the team at mê phim and Future Shorts Vietnam.
Please visit albb’s blog for more information on the program and participating artist, or follow this project on albb’s Facebook page.
a little blah blah (albb) is an artists’ initiative that since 2005 has operated as a platform for contemporary art through a wide range of channels including projects, exhibitions & events, screenings, talks, a residency program, internships and an open-access archive of art books & catalogues. Our program has evolved in a pioneering spirit, in response to the gaps and needs of the Saigon art scene. Since 2008 we have re-focussed our program to presenting one major project each year, capacity building and the ongoing running of albb Reading Room.
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