Watercolor Painting Exhibition by Ngo Quang Nam

Opening: Wed 21 Dec 2016, 5 pm
Exhibition: 21 – 30 Dec 2016
Exhibition hall, 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi

From the organizer:

You are invited to the watercolor painting exhibition by artist Ngo Quang Nam.

Some words to introduce the exhibition by the artist:

“I graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU) school year 1967-1975, and pursued a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at the same college during the years of 1985-1986.

My works are based on enamel, lacquer and acrylic materials. Particularly with acrylic paintings, I have some hundreds pieces – from those I bring seventy five to this exhibition – the same number with my age.

Beside group shows, this is my 5th solo exhibitions. I participated twice in Prague, once in Argentina and four times in Hanoi.

My main themes are my country and its people, especially mountainous regions such as Sapa, Ha Giang, Da Lat… I also paint lotus, reed flowers, bamboos, palm trees and peach blossoms. I have special memories with palm trees. My family used to reside in an area filled with palm trees, which I called Palm Street, during the First Indochina War. The school I went to was situated in the middle of a palm forest. All these memories strengthens my love for palm trees. The love was so dearly that when I came back to Hanoi, I had to find and buy palm seeds sold on Tran Huy Lieu and Cat Linh streets, grew them into young palm trees, then brought them back to the hills in Tien Dong-Cam Khe district – Phu Tho province and now the place has become “Palm Roads”.

I am strongly touched by the colors of mountainous ethic people and have spent years of traveling to experience and directly painted the views right on their spot.

On the other hand, I also paint my second homeland, the beautiful Czechslovakia, where I met many of my Czech teachers and friends, whom I never forget. On this occasion, I also show some of my paintings about the country as a tribute to the land in my heart.”

Free entry.