Artist Talk “A Present Retrospective”

Thu 25 May 2017, 7 – 9.30 pm
Goethe Institut

From the organizer:

For the current exhibition, five contemporary Vietnamese artists were asked to respond visually to propaganda art produced by the late Cuban artist René Mederos who had been sent to Vietnam in 1969 and 1972 by his government.

Lê Quý Tông, Phạm Khắc Quang, Nguyễn Nghĩa Cương, Nguyễn Thế Sơn and Giang Nguyễn work across various media. Each is an individual response that speaks to a different element of Mederos’ work including his aesthetic, medium, colour palette and subject matter.

During an artist round table at the Goethe Institute Claire Driscoll who curated the work will moderate a conversation between the five artists to ask them about how they approached the task, what spoke to them from the initial work and which aspects of the past can inform the present and how important such a dialogue across time can be.

The talk will begin at 19:00 at the main hall of the Goethe Institute 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, there will be simultaneous translation for English and Vietnamese.

Free Admission

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