Solo Exhibition by Tran Trung Ky “Once upon a Time there was a Southern Citadel”

Opening: Sat 27 Dec 2014, 10.30 am
Exhibition: 27 Dec 2014 – 02 Jan 2015
Nam Dinh Museum

From the organizer:

We are delighted to announce that the solo show of teacher/ artist Tran Trung Ky will be open at 10:30 Saturday on 27 December 2014 at Nam Dinh Museum, Nam Dinh City. On behalf of the artist’s family and friends, the organizers cordially invite friends, colleagues, relatives, alumni as well as all the art lovers who have known or worked with Tran Trung Ky to attend this event.

The entire life of the artist/ art educator Tran Trung Ky (1939) has been a devotion to art and art education. He taught at art and culture school (formerly Ha Nam Ninh province and later Nam Dinh province). After his graduation from Vietnam College of fine arts major in Fine arts in 1975, because of his decent and quiet character as well his limited working area in Nam Dinh only so that besides from the students and very few friends. Not everyone has the opportunity to admire all of his works spanning from many periods from the 50s until now. Regardless of any period, material and expression language, the works of Tran Trung Ky always show a certain love and respect for the country, homeland as well as human beings through loving and simple gestures. Especially in the images of the old streets of the Southern citadel (Nam Dinh), portraits of people and landscapes in the rural area of Son Nam. From 1978 to 1984, both the works and the artist himself were traveling to international exhibition and residency in Germany and Bulgaria. He was the representative from the purely Vietnamese soul through the arts. His works were in the collection of Vietnam Fine Arts Museum as well.

At the moment, the artist/ teacher Tran Trung Ky is 76 years old. He is resilient to fight against the malignant cancer, which was discovered early 2014. Although in this first solo show we cannot showcase the entire works across 40 years of creation. But this is going to be a journey with distinctive works of art in many periods in order to reconstruct a portrait about the art life of special artist from the South citadel.

The organizers and family want to express our gratitude to the literary and arts association in Nam Dinh, Vietnam Fine arts Association as well as other donors for your contribution both in manpower and finance to make this exhibition happen.