Project Opening: Month of Arts Practice of Heritage Space – LIMITED n INFINITIVE

Sat 17 Sep 2016, 09 – 11.30 am
Heritage Space

From Heritage Space:

Month of Arts Practice (HSMAP) is an annual project of Heritage Space and was initiated by artist Tran Trong Vu, aiming to create space for composing, testing, practicing new art ideas, upon cooperation and interaction of international and Vietnamese artists.

Month of Arts Practice 2016 will start from September 17 to October 30, 2016, and have a new theme called “LIMITED n INFINITIVE”. There are 12 participants from Europe, America and young talent artists in Vietnam. There are numberous creative group/ individuals based in Hanoi being invited to studio to have exchange program like workshop, practicing arts, discussion and presentation.

The whole activities of project will be implemented in 6-working-weeks at all rooms of Heritage Space, like Library, Gallery, open space of Dolphin Plaza building. The entire composing and practicing process of artists will involve the main theme, with diverse views and approaches, as well without restrictions on the types of art: painting, sculpture, installation, performance, media, writing, etc. The process of artistic practice takes place continuously in 6-8 weeks from the beginning of September at Heritage Space Gallery. Along with the creative activities, there will be a sequence of events such as Exhibition, Workshop, Studio opening, Roundtable Discussion, and Camping. The resulting works of the artists will be displayed in a Grand Exhibition at Heritage Space Gallery and Public Yard of Royal City Residential Area (Hanoi), from end of October to end of December 2016.

Preliminary

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
(William Blake)

I. The world that we live in is filled with limits and limitlessness in space, time, in and outside our mind. The reality that we are now seeing is filled with things that can and cannot be understood, things that can be measured and those which are beyond the imagination, and things that can and cannot be seen. The world is thus amazing and obvious. Hence life is so interesting but illogical.

The world is a giant block of contradictions, inside its harmony. Limits and infinity themselves are also full of contradictions because there are limits within infinity and because infinity lies within limits as well. Every human being themselves is also filled with contradictions, between body and spirit, desire for happiness and sufferings. Limited and infinite.

Take a look at the world, in the limits, to see the infinity and above all, to understand it differently.

II. The artists participating in Month for Arts Practice-version 2nd will find ways to visually express their feelings about limits and infinity. They will try to change the surface, the limited spaces, and the specific images. They will put on those other factors so that limits no longer have borders. For example, the visual game of mirrors, light, or repeated shapes, or the idea behind pictures, or the artworks about mathematics, geometry, philosophy.

The purpose of this artistic practice is that artists will come to the visual world with the approach which is not merely visual. And to understand that reality is not only what they see. If they see the world with two eyes, the world will forever exist as a finite object.

They can then understand that art can become a means of expression and visualization of human needs which go beyond what they see. So far, art express the human desire explore the impossible. Thus art is the open door to infinity.

List of participants

The invited artists are from various countries, races, ages, with very different life and career experiences. They will share their personal thoughts through dialogue and practice. The domestic artists include those who have already shaped their styles (but aspire to work and share new things) and potential, young artists. Here are the official participants in Month of Arts Practice 2016.

1. Alia Ali (Austria, 1985) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-American multi-media artist and visual storyteller. Having traveled to fifty-three countries, lives in seven and grown up among five languages, her most comfortable mode of communication is through image and multi-sensory mediums. Alia’s aesthetic interests stem from people, place, and the processes which unite and divide us, all at once.

2. Luce de Tetis – artist name of Camille Renard (1987) is a Canadian French artist. After exploring various currents of artistic fields she finds her endogen expression in sculpture. Her plastic universe, through gender studies, defines her socially as well as sexually. Her primal reference is womanhood, probing with apetite into its origins, flesh and blood.

3. Nathalie Contenay (1965) is a French visual artist. She participated in various group exhibitions and residencies in Europe and the U.S, as well as owns more than 20 solo exhibitions held in France, Germany and Italy, among which the important exhibition Ombres et Lumières at the Centre Georges Pompidou (2005, Paris) and her latest exhibition is Irradiances (2016, Paris).

4. Isaac Cordal, born in 1974 in Pontevedra, Spain, Cordal graduated from the University of Fine Arts Pontevedra. He also trained at Camberwell College of Arts in London and studied for five years at the School of Canteiros Pontevedra, a school dedicated to the conservation of stone crafts. He was the founding member of Alg-a.org, digital art community from Galicia, and the part of the artistic collective Ludd34560 and Sr. Pause. For the past 10 years, Cordal has been devoted to his practice as his cement sculptures have been seen in many cities worldwide.

5. Gail Albert-Halaban (born Gail Hilary Albert, 1970, in Washington, DC) is an American fine art and commercial photographer. She is noted for her large scale photographs of women and urban, voyeuristic landscapes. Gail Albert-Halaban (born Gail Hilary Albert, 1970, in Washington, DC) is an American fine art and commercial photographer. She is noted for her large scale photographs of women and urban, voyeuristic landscapes. Albert-Halaban’s work has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, Time magazine, M, World Magazine, Slate (magazine), and The Huffington Post. Her fine art photography has been internationally exhibited.

6. Le Giang (1988) is an artist living and working in Hanoi. She received her bachelor’s degree in Art Education from Vietnam University of Fine Art and a master’s degree in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Le Giang was part of many group exhibitions in London, joined other group exhibitions both in Vietnam and other countries, such as Spot Art Young South East Asia Art Festival (Singapore), Above Under Sky (Manzi art space), Into thin air (Public space at 61 Ly Thai To, Hanoi, Vietnam). In 2013 and 2015, Le Giang participated to two art residencies in Japan (Haisyakkei Artist in Residency) and Philippines (98B COLLABoratory Artist Research and Project Residency through San Art), at the same time had her solo exhibitions namely “Reincarnate” and “Nostalgia from Nature” in these countries.

7. Trinh Nhat Vu (1990) graduated from Vietnam University of Fine Art. Trinh Nhat Vu has participated in many exhibitions, from local ones such as Young Artist Club Exhibition (16 Ngo Quyen Exhibition House), Group Exhibition “E.A.T” (Viet Art Centre), Group Exhibition “A4 Garden” (Vietnam University of Fine Arts), to other international projects, namely More than a Monarch, The 11th International Art Workshop (Thailand), Pulau Ketam International Arts Festival 2014 (Malaysia), The Silk Road International Arts Festival (China), The 15th International Calligraphy and Painting Exchange Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum).

8. Nguyen Kim Duy (1987) is an artist currently living and working in Hanoi, Vietnam. He graduated from Academy of Fine Art Nuremberg (2014) and Faculty of Painting at Vietnam University of Fine Arts (2008).

Coming back Vietnam since July 2014, Kim Duy starts practice and introduce his Conceptual arts by various media and appearance via series of exhibitions in Heritage Space, Nha San Collective (2014, 2015), Group Exhibition Yu Yu Vietnam Blue (Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, 2015), Open Room II (2016, CAPA Studio, Hochiminh city).

9. Chu Thi Thuy Quynh (1991) is an artist living and working in Hanoi, Vietnam.She participated in the group exhibition of Art Diversity III at Work Room Four (2014) with Zincography, “Yu Yu Vietnam Blue” exhibition at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum (2015) with Installation using a variety of materials.

10. Thuy Dien (1992) is a female young artist living and working in Hanoi. Although she studied in National Economics University, she has the innate artistic and have passion and creativity of making doll and small house when she was 14 years old. She participated in Month of Arts Pratice 2015 with the theme “The Brownian Movement”. Her art form are photography and installation made from small dolls and furniture in order to create the sense of a really special personal world, evoque the daydreaming and also the loneliness and the embarrassment in search of an identity, such as the story about the existential identity crisis of modern time.

11. Quach Bac (1988) graduated in Painting, Fine Arts University Vietnam. His artworks express the psychological depth by a solid painting technique and multimedia. Quach Bac won the award Independent Young Talent in 2016 and had the residency creation in Malaysia, as well as participated in numerous exhibitions in Vietnam. In 2015, Quach Bach also attended in Month at Heritage Space with the theme “Brownian Movement “.

12. Trieu Tuan Long (1981) graduated in Art Education, Fine Arts University Vietnam. As an artist with strong and also romantic instincts, Trieu Tuan Long’s painting is full of passionate feeling in life under a romantic sense of artist. He had arranged the personal exhibition entitled “Transmission of information by horsepower ” at L’ espace 2014, besides the regular participation of group exhibitions, the Young Artist Club, Fine Arts Exhibition of Vietnam Fine Arts Association.

Beside the official artists, there are also the freely participation of individuals/ groups of artists working in Hanoi:
– The independent art groups in Hanoi: Nha San Collective, Real Art painter group, New Form sculptor group, group performing practice of Artists Back Dieu Ha, etc.
– The artist participated in Month of Art Pratice 2015: Phu Vien, Cao Thang, etc.
– The Creative Multimedia Group: Group artist / independent filmmakers from DOCLAB, Music Group of Vu Nhat Tan, Cuca contemporary dance group, group of artists Grafity in Think Playground, etc.
– The independent artist working on many different types of art such as Truong Tien Tra (painting, graphics), Nguyen The Son (plastic art, photos, media), Vu Kim Thu (plastic art, installation), Trieu Minh Hai (painting, multimedia), Luong Van Viet (sculptor), etc.
– The foreign artists residing in Hanoi: George Burchett, Iłża Burchett, Natalia Kracvskaia, Lawrence D’Attilio, etc.
And the others artists and independent working group are continuing to register to join in the program.

Summary of HSMAP’s Program

• Arts Practice and Experiment: Based on the theme, artist develops their own concepts, and experiment in wide range of disciplines and media.
• Collaboration and Interaction: In sharing studio, artist have change to do collaboration or interaction with others during creative processes. In some cases, guest and audience can join some part of process or being object/subject of creation.
• Presentation and Talk: All artists are invited to present their personal art practices and works to colleagues and publics. Discussion around the project, works, concept and idea, perspective and viewpoint, media and material etc will take place naturally during working day in studio.
• Visit and Camping: Art tours will be hold at weekend to visit museum, art place and studio around Hanoi. A trip to discover ancient temples and pagodas in the North of Vietnam will be organized for studying traditional aspects of Vietnamese culture and arts.
• Open Studio: to exploiting work process in site to public. Artist’s still working and responsing to guest by explaining, discussing, training or inviting audience to join.
• Exhibition: Some grand exhibitions will be hold at the end of project to display all works by artists. The shows will last until end of December 2016.

Heritage Space is a combination of an art gallery, a library, a concert hall, co-working office, residency space, artist studios and some open-stages, which has the capacity to host art exhibitions, music events, educational programs, multi-creative forms, artist-in-residency programs and others. Run by a group of curators, artists, researchers, musicians and architects, Heritage Space’s mission is to become a HUB for individuals and groups working on multi-disciplines from both inside and outside of the country to support and develop the creative industries in Vietnam.

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