KVT – Adrift in a Sea of Faces
KVT enjoys 2D time out…give or take three in 3D
A quick bit on the ‘Dogma’ self portrait exhibition on at the Fine Arts Museum. Click here to find out who won first prize in this nicely prized competition (around $6 000 for the winner).
I have to put my addled brain to work around the dogma appellation …but it’s a really catchy name. In another part of the world where I resided recently a self portrait exhibition was called ‘My Own Executioner’. And I guess that’s what a good contemporary self portrait could be all about- exposing what’s under the surface veneer of a Face Book personality.
Like a lot of portrait prize exhibitions this one is a compilation of the very good, the slightly bad, and the necessarily ugly… and like most similar prizes that call for submissions from accredited artists, it has all the marks of a crowd pleaser.
Some of the works have been around the traps previously and some of the styles are a bit ho hum but overall I was impressed enough to stay for a long while in the midst of faces and representations of vulnerability.
Now while I thought that the judges found a worthy winner in Ngo Van Sac and that the special prize awarded to Dang Xuan Hung was really appropriate I awarded a couple of my own private awards to Duy Vu Tam
Tinh Minh Tien
Kha Thanh Trung
And a really special award to Nguyen Van Nghia
Here’s an overview of the self portraits culled from all over the country
