Exhibition “And Flowers Showered”
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Opening: Fri 10 Jun, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibition: 10 Jun – 08 Jul 2011
Art Vietnam
From Art Vietnam:
You are invited to the exhibition “And Flowers Showered” of artist Nguyen The Hung. In this romantic outpouring of emotion, artist Nguyen The Hung uses the images of flowers, real, imagined, or newspaper composites of life cut into flower shapes, as a metaphor for the passion contained in all mankind.
As the artist states:
“My idea is to paint flowers flying the air, falling like rain from pregnant clouds or sentiment from an overburdened heart. The flowers shower onto the large void in the painting, making space for more abundance, for more flower rain.“
The artist creates an enveloping tension between the soft empty void and the promise of flowers drifting through space seeking some kind of logical order. Although the artist has artfully positioned these flowers onto the Do paper, they seem to struggle between keeping their shape or falling into pieces.
To this contradiction the artist poses this question.
“Which flower is for you? For the daily life battle?
Do you chose the real flower falling from nature or do you choose the flower of life as it is lived? The dream of beauty or the beauty of life?”
This question the viewer must ponder as he wanders through this fanciful garden of showering flowers. “Do I choose the dream, or do I choose life?”
This is the question.
 | Art Vietnam Gallery 7 Nguyễn Khắc Nhu, Hà Nội 10 am – 6 pm, closed Sundays Tel: 84 4 927 2349 Fax: 84 4 927 2804 [email protected] www.artvietnamgallery.com |
