HCMC – “The Happening” Art Project

19 Nov 2010 – 03 Jan 2011
Himiko Cafe

Himiko Cafe shares:
The art project “The Happening” launches and starts the 5th birthday of Himiko Visual Café. To see detail about the exhibitions within the framework of the project below.

Installation exhibition “The Happening” by Skinny Ha and Himiko Nguyen
Opening: Fri 19 Nov 2010.
About the exhibition: The paper cranes have been made by silver notes inside the tobacco packs collect from the streets will be glitted as the interior decorations in Himiko’s space. It starts from a window frame, two cornered lamps, pictures to the recorded movie of picking/collecting the packs and the patient process of garbage treatment to create the artwork.

Exhibition “The Hidden Language from Fade-away” by Nguyen Son
Opening: Sat 27 Nov 2010
About the exhibition: A series of painting brings lot of differences compare to the previous times. The old stained color tone roll from old memories; the mystery cut symbols, half separate half mix from the past, present, future and the eternal of time. The self-questions are wondering from the past, think they were
hidden but still fresh and tormenting from the artist’s thoughts.

Exhibition “The Complex” by Vo Duy Don
Opening: Thu 09 Dec 2010
About the exhibition: An anatomy series of painting by Vo Duy Don. Classical compositions, with oil, with texture based on the body shape of models in the School of Fine Arts. Vo Duy Don draws the human form of fatigue and stress, apparently is no longer covered and layered by clothes, but still buried in human’s states: how the fear cover his eyes when shut, how his hands wring when tired, how to keep the balance in life. Each element in the painting is a metaphor about simple lives in the pity of chaos, the interesting of peace or the reality of boring acceptance.

Lacquer paintings exhibition “The Memories” by Pham Hoang Thuan Nhan.
Opening: Wed 22 Dec 2010
About the exhibition: This is the first solo exhibition in 10 years since graduated and remained silent after school. It is about the memories imprint where she lived (7 years in Hanoi after graduation), about Duong Lam ancient village, about the old temple in Ha Dong village, about the filling of vague images from the familly house in Tan Lap Farm. Emotional paintings, beautiful deep color, classic lacquer spirit – the only material she is pursuing until now.

On each Exhibition Opening Day, there will has an announcement about the scheduled Exhibition Opening Day for the next artist. A week before each Exhibition Opening Day, there has its own detailed introduction of artist whose artworks will be on next display.