HCMC – Filters: Vietnam Contemporary Art Exhibition
Opening: Tue 27 Oct 2015
Exhibition: 28 and 29 Oct 2015, 9 am – 9 pm
3rd floor, Gem Center
08 Nguyen Binh Khiem Str, Dist 1, HCMC
From the organizer:
“FILTERS: Vietnam Contemporary Art Exhibition” showcases outstanding talents of selected artist’s groups represent Vietnam’s contemporary art to the international community.
This year compelling exhibition features over 30 ambitious large-scale works including paintings minimum 180cm x 360cm, together with sculptures over 300cm in length by three well-established Vietnamese artists whose have their works exhibited internationally.
The selected artists for this year “FILTERS” project are sculptor Bui Hai Son, painters Le Kinh Tai and Nguyen Quang Vinh. Their current body of work explore the conceptual and cultural currents underlining Vietnam’s contemporary art movement today while inviting viewers to experience contemporary art through artists’ perspectives.
Bui Hai Son: born in Southern Vietnam, Son’s spent most of his life examine the richness of the Mekong region. Through images of the rice seed with its growing progress as a way of observing the maturity of the self over time, Son constructs his works from wood and various type of metals resulting in sculptures that embody dynamics of message toward finding the origin.
Nguyen Quang Vinh: discovered himself from within the vastness of oceans was the reason Vinh started his seascape paintings. His current body of work “The Return” is a continuous dialogue between his state of emotion flux. He borrows the marine’s mysterious characteristics to interpret questions about the self and fragile interdependent relationship between life and nature.
Le Kinh Tai: coming from Da Nang, Vietnam, Tai brought with him the daring traits represented the people there. His spark of humor combined with evocative words embody the idea of internal conflicts that are present in the modern society. Depict the subjects in almost raw and wild manner with the use of intense colors and expressive brushwork brought out the desire for the quest of finding the real self in such turbulent time of change. He expresses his vision of life, the perpetual fight on the path of pursuing happiness.
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