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Photography Exhibition at Bui Gallery

UPDATE

01 April – From Bui Gallery – We’ve had trouble bringing David LaChapelle into the country. It’ll just be the Vietnamese photographers and Fabien Verscahere tonight.

Opening: Fri 18 Mar, 7 – 9 pm
Exhibition: 18 Mar – 15 May 2011
The Bui Gallery

From Bui Gallery:
You are invited to photography exhibition “Superstyle” of David Lachapelle with Tuan Nguyen and Yu Nguyen. This year for Photo VN, the Bui Gallery is going for all out Pop.

For more detail about the artists and their photographs, see below:

David LaChapelle, one of the world’s most in demand commercial photographers invites you to step inside his wonderful fantasies and answer yourself.

Mentored by one of the pioneers of Pop Art, Andy Warhol, LaChapelle uses iconic images, in this case, American celebrities, and places them into what he describes as ‘film stills’. Each and every one of his shots could be pulled straight out of a feature film. Using extravagant setups, proactive costumes and all the theatrics of a play, LaChapelle creates a narrative in his photographs to create movement in an otherwise still frame.

DAVID LACHAPELLE “Britney Spears: NYC Street Scene shot in California, 2000, C-Print mounted and with artist’s frame Signed”

Not to be missed are the fashion editorials of Vietnamese photographers, Yu Nguyen and Tuan Nguyen. Their images of local icon and UNICEF spokesperson; Ha Anh, provide a contrast to the pomp and circumstance of LaChapelle’s work. Yu and Tuan’s work is a window into the ever growing Vietnamese appreciation of fashion and idealization of luxury.

And yet, in both series of photographs we find an appreciation of beauty and the aesthetic. After all, isn’t that what Pop Art is all about?

The immediately satisfying, the visually pleasing, the eye-opening and the fun.

And it’s worth looking at how two very different cultures approach this.

The Bui Gallery
23 Ngo Van So St., Hanoi, Vietnam
tel: +84(0)4 39 44 85 95/ fax: +84(0)4 39 44 85 94
[email protected]
www.thebuigallery.com

2 COMMENTS

  1. không hiểu triển lãm lần này có tổ chức art talk không và nếu có thì là bao giờ vậy?

    • Hanoi Grapevine sẽ cập nhật thông tin về art talk ngay nếu có.

      Thân mến,
      Hanoi Grapevine team

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