Solo Exhibition “White, Black & Gold” by Le Hoang Bich Phuong

Opening: Fri 04 Dec 2015, 10 am
Exhibition: 04 – 25 Dec 2015, 9 am – 6 pm
Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam

From Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam:

The Japan Foundation Center for cultural exchange in Vietnam, proudly hosts an art exhibition by Le Hoang Bich Phuong “White, Black & Gold” in Hanoi from 4 December to 25 December 2015.

Le Hoang Bich Phuong is a Ho Chi Minh City based young artist who was awarded an artist-in-residence at S-AIR in Sapporo City, Japan, through the “JENESYS Invitation Program for Creators” operated by the Japan Foundation. She had her first silk painting solo exhibition titled “A transformative disguise” in 2012 in Hanoi and HCMC supported by the Japan Foundation and San Art. In 2015, she comes up with “White, Black & Gold” with a new material, ceramic.

Since graduation, Phuong has always been attracted to traditional techniques. This project is a new experiment – a combination of her ideas and an innovative Vietnamese craft technique, a departure from silk painting. All artworks will be made of glass and ceramic, and are hand-made. This is done entirely with the support from the talented artisans of Bat Trang ceramic village. Through this project, it is her goal that these pieces will recall Vietnamese traditional art crafts that are now faded by modernizing trends in Vietnam.

In this exhibition a series of installations in ceramic will be divided into three spaces with three art works, representing her dreams or ours. People are constantly compelled by an unidentified urge to fulfill their dreams, and likewise gain greater access to life’s blessings. They struggle and evolve in an effort to reach these dreams, to reach this end. To Phuong, all of us are as random as the creation of planets. Born, then strung together in a cluster like a galaxy, an asymmetrical chain.

Following our creation, we are impacted and influenced by each other. Like asteroids, actions create sequences we can at times anticipate. Other impacts set in motion unintended consequences. We seek and chase the broader spaces. We pay no mind to the effects they may cause surrounding planets. Somehow, we deviate from the universal system of order. Our path breeds jealousy, as we seek greener pastures just over the horizon. It is her belief that peaceful consciousness instills order. It is in fact our forgotten promised land – abandoned in pursuit of meandering dreams.

ARTIST’S PROFILE

Le Hoang Bich Phuong (b. 1984, Ho Chi Minh City) is one of Vietnam’s most promising young artists whose study of Vietnamese and Japanese silk painting traditions has greatly influenced her own unique style and technique. Influenced by the ukiyo-e tradition, while also drawn to the popular world of the comic, Bich Phuong’s strong command of line and color creates an ethereal, near surreal presence. A graduate of the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts University, she was awarded an artist-in-residence in Sapporo, Japan, as part of the “JENESYS Program: Invitation Program for Creators” of the Japan Foundation in 2011 and that same year was also one of the finalists for the DOGMA Art Prize in self-portraiture. In 2010 she was finalist in the “Talent Prize” of the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund.

Recent exhibitions include:
– Sapporo Biennale 2011, Sapporo, Japan, 2011
– “Shaping a line”, San Art, HCMC, Vietnam, 2011
– “Saigon Contemporary”, La Lanta Fine Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011
– “A transformative disguise”, San Art, HCMC, Vietnam, 2012 and The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, Hanoi, 2012

Admission free.

Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam 27 Quang Trung Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội Tel: 3944 7419 www.jpf.org.vn