KVT – Escheresque at Mai
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Escheresque at Mai
The best thing about going to see the painting and sculpture exhibition ‘3D White’ by Nguyen Quan is the Esheresque experience of the stairs. You can enter through the Mai Gallery in Hang Gai or the spanking new Art Talk Café at 12 Quan Su. The two are connected by a series of art spaces and corridors that make you feel that you may be in one of those Escher lithographs where the stairs seem to go everywhere and nowhere.
The potential to display quality exhibitions is breathtaking and I wish I had the chance and money to curate a show or two of scintillating art work there (one can have one’s pipe dreams!).
Apart from the three, rather scintillating white sculptures on show, the white nude paintings and the collages are interesting but it’s all a bit too placid. One large collage triptych is arresting.
The trip to see it is worth it though, if only for the stairs and the potential.
| Not a reviewer, not a critic, “Kiếm Văn Tìm” is an interested, impartial and informed observer and connoisseur of the Hanoi art scene who offers highly opinionated remarks and is part of the long and venerable tradition of anonymous correspondents. Please add your thoughts in the comment field below. |
