Artist’s Talk with Trong Gia Nguyen, New York
Mon 09 Feb 2015, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
From Goethe Institut:
Trong Gia Nguyen (born 1971, Saigon, Vietnam) shows his exhibition “The Leavers” in Gallery Quynh in HCMC this February. The Goethe Institute Hanoi invites him on 05.02.2015 to present his work to an interested audience in Hanoi, and so to encourage artistic exchange between the two cities.
Trong Gia Nguyen’s broad spectrum of creative work examines structures of power in their myriad forms, questioning the weak foundation upon which contemporary life plays out, often behind a façade of fairness, honesty, reliability, tradition, celebrity, objectivity, and civility.
Whether taking the form of sculpture, painting, iPhone applications, film, or web-based performance actions, Nguyen’s conceptual approach walks the fine line between humor and sorrow, subtlety and blatancy, night and day, and beauty and ugliness. His recent “coloring book” paintings, on view at Galerie Quynh, view the artist’s family history through the indulgent lens of memory.
In collaboration with: Galerie Quỳnh and Manzi
Language: English, Vietnamese
Free Admission.
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