Exhibition “Stories Told In An Oriental Way” at Manzi
Opening: Fri 29 May 2015, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 29 May – 20 Jun 2015
Manzi Art Space
From Manzi:
Manzi Art Space is pleased to present ‘Stories Told In An Oriental Way’ – a solo exhibition by visual artist Do Tuan Anh.
The exhibition features Tuan Anh’s latest surreal paintings which were created in 2015, two years after his settlement in Solingen, a small city in Germany.
In Tuan Anh’s previous works, the countryside has been the spiritual foundation which forms the basis of his practice, dominating his perception and approach to art-making. Having to relocate to Germany in 2013 means that the artist has been uprooted from his source of inspiration, leaving him in an in-between state, neither here nor there. And this uncertainty is reflected strongly in his solo show at Manzi.
‘Finding myself lost in a completely different social structure, experiencing a cultural shock, being obsessed with the bleak winter landscape in a strange land, this series of paintings was created as a projection of collision between the outer world and my inner state’ – said the artist.
Combining contradictory conditions of dream and reality, in this series of work, Do Tuan Anh painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision and created strange creatures with everyday objects. By showing his quirky side, pairing up people and animals with wit and irony, the artist is telling a surrealist tale in an oriental way.
Do Tuan Anh (born 1979) graduated from the University for Art and Design in 2000 and works dominantly as a painter and sculptor. Considered an established visual artist of Vietnam, Do Tuan Anh has intensively exhibited in Vietnam and abroad.
Communications partners: Hanoi Grapevine, The Word Vietnam and &OfOtherThings
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I can highly recommend this artist and his works! Had the chance to meet him several times in Hanoi when I was an ex-pat there and recently in his new home in Germany. Do Tuan Anh is a deep thinker and a visionary dreamer. You can see and feel these characteristic properties in his paintings. Go and see for yourselves!