Art Exhibition “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)” by Daniel Kerkhoff
Opening: Sat 03 Oct 2015, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition: 03 – 11 Oct 2015, 9 am – 6 pm
Chaap Art
82 Đê Quai Street, Tây Hồ District, Hanoi
From the artist:
An installation based on Daniel Kerkhoff’s self-imposed artist-in-residency in Hanoi from February 6th to October 26th. It is part of a larger project which includes residencies in Ghana and Ecuador. Embedded in a community for just under nine months, the human gestation period, premature, a gradual, a creative process,
an exploration, noticing, weaving, sharing, and witnessing, connection, disconnection, a journal, found sculptures, painting, photographs, videos, documenting, collections, keepsakes, collages, receipts and brochures, maps, business cards and consumer packaging, consumed and consuming, souvenirs,
walking, discovering, travel, a paper trail, colonize, appropriate, trophies, convoluted, cover-ups, muddy, history, memory, remnants, experience, lost, absorbed, traces, vague, melding, a buried presence, fading, rotting, germinating, misunderstanding, forgotten, pollination, rejuvenation, impermanence, transformation.
Daniel Kerkhoff is a visual artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. You can see photos of his projects in Vietnam, Ghana, Ecuador, and other places at www.danielkerkhoff.com.
Prints will be available for 500,000 VND or $25.00 with all proceeds going to future exhibition costs at Chaap Art for emerging women artists.
Directions to Chaap Art: From Nghi Tàm Street, follow Lane 310 all the way to the end where it will turn left onto Đê Quai Street. Go about 500 meters on Đê Quai Street and Chaap Art will be on your left.
Phone number: 0987757769 – 0985836023.
