KVT – Art Vietnam……The Second Decade
Whenever I visited I always crept up the front stairs to ensure that my favorite work, Nguyen Minh Thanh’s immense ancestral photo frame was still in place.
The house, designed by a French architect as a private dwelling, was where the extra-ordinary Ten Courts of The Kings of Hell by Simon Redington had its first outing
and where Maritta Nurmi commandeered all available spaces to install her zingy La DolceVita.
Thanks KVT – this is a nice piece. Like you, I was disappointed when I heard the Nguyen Khac Nhu gallery was closing – it’s a great building with it’s secret staircases and big airy rooms – but more so because it housed Viet Art’s excellent collections and exhibitions so well – they deserved a good setting. I particularly liked Simon Redington’s print folios and Ly Tran Quynh Giang’s wood blocks. Seeing your photographs of some of those works reminded me how lucky we were to have Viet Art. It would’ve been a shame if we’d lost it completely – so thank you Suzanne – I’m looking forward to any future exhibitions in the new setting.
Really enjoyed and appreciated this article – thank you.
Suzanne’s past and ongoing contribution to the development and increased international exposure of the Vietnamese contemporary art scene has been enormous – she is a treasure – as is her showcase home.
Andrew FitzGerald