Exhibition “Life Stories”
Opening: Sat 14 Dec, 5.30 pm
Exhibition: 14 – 23 Dec 2013
Nguyen Art Gallery
From Nguyen Art Gallery:
You are invited to the “Life Stories” painting exhibition by the artist Luong Trung. “This is a new vision, bitter with a lot of challenges, a hidden tease. It really shocks the citizens of today’s urbanized society. Life stories, human stories in the paintings of Luong Trung are just the kids pushing art to sidewalks, bus stations …It takes the realities of the daily chaos to make space for art to express the funny and tragic to make us laugh until we cry, which can touch any one’s mind.
Vietnam’s contemporary pop art is seeing the funny, the ludicrous, the snobbish, the gap between the rich and the poor, the pollution of the environment, the decay of community culture and the tornado of urbanization and apartment buildings, the jostle and changes of the market economy …Those rough realities haunt the purified soul and determined brush of Luong Trung. Finding a way by themselves, his 8x generation is maturing and, obviously taking a chance, they step fast into the changing decade of Vietnamese contemporary art.” (Luong Xuan Doan) Artist statement We are living in a modern society in a developing country; during a period when the country is making a great movement forward. We can see that in the daily life of people on the sidewalks, in the alleys, lanes, on the street corners …and in the bus stations. These activities reflect reality of contemporary society. I myself now live in an apartment building in an area so called “Relocated housing”, I see people moving to their new re-settlement accommodations, trying hard to adapt with to a new culture in new living places in a pessimistic way. They try to live extremely personal lives, and they have to face the contradictions rising in community activities. There are different problems when people bring their family members to their new homes, to their new neighborhoods in their new living places and moreover in our new society. And since moving into this new apartment house, I get new inspirations for my artwork. In my paintings, I ironically express the people with funny & ridiculous character; those could be personalizations of someone who is living in current Vietnam society.
Nguyen Art Gallery No 31 Van Mieu road, Hanoi Tel: ++(84 4) 37476001 Website |