KVT – Amidst the Oxen Herds
Dung has a great sense of humor and his calling card bears an image one of his emasculated animals glaring out at you balefully and you just know that the prematurely blunted horns just can’t wait to toss you about a bit…..just like his exhibition definitely does.
Dung has used his oils very smoothly, his colours richly and vibrantly…even seductively.
It closes on the 21st and is recommended viewing for all males – trapped on a treadmill or not – and for the females of the species, particularly those who fear they have been metaphorically spayed by the conforms, confines and dictates of whatever social stucture is flowing around them.
As the reader can see…the visceral certainly ruled the head in this opinion piece!
| Kiem Van Tim is a keen observer of life in general and the Hanoi cultural scene in particular and offers some of these observations to the Grapevine. KVT insists that these observations and opinion pieces are not critical reviews. Please see our Comment Guidelines / Moderation Policy and add your thoughts in the comment field below. |
Hi KVT,
Thank you for your collegial welcome — it was a pleasant surprise for me this morning!
Let me also thank you for your reviews: they are the ones that gave me ‘the feel’ for the Hanoi’s vibrant and busy cultural life and I enjoy reading them a lot…and I gather I am not the only one to feel this way…
On the subject of opinions:…yes… the more — the merrier…after all that is what stirs interest, makes a conversation and starts a discourse…
…and… art, being a predominantly emotionally driven and rather irrational affair, which our rationalized modern world have difficulty handling (and makes every effort to subjugate), let alone responding to on its merits… needs, I believe, a cool-headed analysis just as well, if it is not to lose its very reason for existence…on which note…
Cheers and all best,
Ilza
PS Yet to see the show…so, will respond on that later…
re PS:
…hmmmm…
…pretty straight forward and unambiguous as a metaphor…
I wander, and looking forward to find out what’s going to be coming next from young Thanh Hoa-an, Nguyen The Dung —
hope not more of the same cow / bull / dunder /etc-heads in suits getting worn out…