Update: Exhibition “1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8″

Opening: Sat 03 Dec, 6.30 pm
Artist Talk: Sun 04 Dec, 3 pm
Exhibition: 03 Dec 2011- 15 Jan 2012, 11 am – 6 pm
The Bui Gallery

From Bui Gallery:
The Bui Gallery presents the group exhibition ‘1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8’ showing recent work by 8 Vietnamese contemporary artists Lý Trần Quỳnh Giang, Trương Tân, Nguyễn Thái Tuấn, Lê Huy Hoàng, Nguyễn Minh Thành, Nguyễn Quang Huy, Phạm Ngọc Dương & Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng. The exhibition with 8 different prominent characters promises to be an unmissable event in Hanoi this December.

“Maybe this exhibition is the start of the ‘8 collective’ and surely this is a good omen for Vietnamese contemporary art which deserves great attention at the moment.” says Betty Bui, Managing Director of the Bui Gallery.

‘1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8’ started as an initiative from artists Phạm Ngọc Dương and Trương Tân to hold an exhibition of very particular and attention seeking art in the form of a one-off collaboration between 8 artist friends. This is an exhibition with no curator, no specific title, no hierarchy. The title ‘1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8’ is nothing more than a consecutive series of numbers, thus clearly referring to a group that consists of individuals that are distinct from but connected with one another.

In this exhibition, the artists’ collective decides to explore nothing in particular. Rather, viewers will have chance to experience a broad variety of artistic expression, from the lonely inner world of Ly Tran Quynh Giang, the gentle depiction of love in the paintings of Nguyen Minh Thanh, Nguyen Quang Huy and Pham Ngoc Duong, to the strong sense of humour in the surrealistic world of Nguyen Manh Hung, the tragic feeling in Le Huy Hoang’s paintings, the emptiness in the Black Paintings series by Nguyen Thai Tuan, and last but not least, childhood nostalgia and beautiful motherhood in Truong Tan’s artwork marking the return of this enfant terrible of the 90’s to the art scene of Hanoi.

However, every single artwork and its story has a viewer with yet another story. Story one and story two – or artwork one and artwork two – become a new one: the third story. And for this exhibition, the viewer will completes a work of art’ as said by Marcel Duchamp.