Exhibition “The Street Dreams”

Exhibition: 11 Apr – 11 May 2016
Toong Co-working Space

From the organizer:

You are invited to the exhibition “The Street Dreams” with Nguyen The Duy.

With a history of thousands of years and through numerous vicissitudes with dynasties, Hanoi becomes a city with rich and diversity architecture. But it remains the antique soul of Asian beauty. This is the inspiration for numerous artists including Nguyen The Duy.

The exhibition “The Street Dreams” includes 15 works that focus on the subject of Hanoi with old streets and ancient temples. His works revive in our mind the image of an old Hanoi which was industrious, serene and peaceful. There was neither rush nor animation as in industrial cities, Hanoi “36 artisan guilds and old streets” with the interference of the local culture and the modern features of Western culture. But, from those pictures, what remains in the viewer’s artistic mind is the beauty of traditional art and the nation’s marked cultural identity.

Artist Nguyen The Duy was born in 1956 in Hanoi. His early paintings were made when he was in primary school. In 1983, he graduated from the University of Industrial Fine Art. But in 1996, he was no longer amongst the state’s regular staff but dedicated himself to making painting with the subject of downtown. At present, Artist Nguyen The Duy is a member of the Hanoi Fine Arts Association, as well as of the Hanoi Music Association and the composer of the song “First Love”.

His works on the leitmotif of “Downtown” is delivered to a lot of exhibitions all over the world such as “Art Creative Studio” in South Korea, Solo exhibitions in Hygienic Gallery New London (USA), International Artist in Residence Program of Griffis New London (USA), and also numerous exhibitions in different cities in Vietnam.