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The Solitary World of Ly Tran Quynh Giang

Posted on 10/03/2010

Opening: Friday, 12 Mar, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibition: 12 Mar – 12 Apr

To enter the strange and mysterious, quiet yet strong, artistic world of this very talented young artist is a force of nature itself. Reclusive by nature Giang’s private sanctuary is unabashedly bold while at the same time silently retrospective. Never one to shy from the complexities of life, Giang embraces the gray ambiguities that others less courageous flee from.

Trained as a printmaker, making woodcuts came naturally and freely to the young artist. Working purely from the feeling that nature brings to her, Giang lets the natural shape of the selected wood guide her inspiration into form. The highly sculpted portraits provocatively stare at the viewer with an unflinching gaze. Owls, which fill the mouth, bees that swarm over the body imbue the works with an intensity from which no one can escape or ignore.

The use of the complex aesthetic beauty of the owl and the bee expresses the artist’s attraction to the contradictions of life. Dark and dangerous, foreboding and frantic, the intensity of these creatures creates a calmness in her world into which she can retreat.

Fragments of emotion are interwoven with concrete form creating a harmony within disharmony that engages the viewer and compels one to react, to investigate and to discover.

This solitary world is not for the meek, it is for the seekers. We invite you to come and ponder this provocative work, to think and to feel and to enter this private mystical world of Ly Tran Quynh Giang.