Exhibition “The Makeup Faces”

Opening: Mon 22 Oct, 5pm
Exhibition: 22 – 29 Oct 2012
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

From the organizer:
The exhibition consists of 22 lacquer paintings of artist Nguyen Van Cuong (1976). He is currently a teacher at Art Department of the University of Teaching. This series is inspired by one aspect of the society: the make up of a person before they get out of the house or their room.

Make – up is not pureply the action of putting on lipstick, clothes but also accessories. He has watched the face of many beautiful girls on magazine covers in Vietnam to analyze the outside beauty. Through his paintings, it seems he wants to question about these outside beauty and the potential beauty hiding underneath those attractive lips and make up.