Vietnam arts and culture
An exhibition show-casing unpublished artworks by one of the most beloved sons of Vietnamese fine arts, Tran Van Can, opened on Wednesday at the Museum of Fine Arts. The exposition, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the death of the renowned veteran painter, introduces more than 100 of his … [Read more...]
Painter Van Duong Thanh – Ambassador of Vietnamese Culture Through 20 years of living far from the homeland, the nostalgia always wells up in the heart of painter Van Duong Thanh. In recent years, she has returned to Vietnam many times to establish painting studios and hold exhibitions. Van … [Read more...]
Thomas Brune As a journalist one gets tasks from time to time, where one has to drag a story out of a poor interview- victim and to stretch it a little here and there in order to be able to fill out a newspaper page. However from time to time one meets a human being, where one is … [Read more...]
Introduction for the catalogue of exhibition “My little garden” of Dang Duong Bang on 29 April 2006 at Gallery Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund, Denmark Ole Limboe Editor of Kunstmagasinet (The Art Magazine) "A garden is not just a garden. It is a whole world of colours, shapes and … [Read more...]
By Emil Svendsen One of the exhibiting artists in the North Zealand galleries is from Vietnam. Ordinarily he is a research scientist in poultry diseases. Art His name is Dang Duong Bang, has a PhD in molecular genetics. He works at Department of Poultry, Fish and Fur Animals at … [Read more...]
Art critic: Martijn Verhoeven (Original in Dutch Leidendaglab 25 04 2005.Translation from Dutch into English by Prof. Dr. Pieter Telleman , Director of Institute of Micro and Nano-Technology (MIC) Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark.) On the second floor of Gallery Amber … [Read more...]
Leids Dagblad 4-3-1998 Vietnamese artist Dang Duong Bang at Gallery Amber Leiden, The Netherland ”For me Simplicity is importance" Leiden. Cees Van Hoore. (Translation from Dutch to English by Dr. E.M.J. Jaspars, Leiden Chemistry Institute, LeidenUniversity, Leiden, … [Read more...]
I started to paint when I was 6 years old. At the age of 10, every year, I spent 3 months of my summer holiday in my uncle Nguyen Tien Chung's house, in Tay-Ho village, a small village in the north of Hanoi near West-lake. Nguyen Tien Chung was a well-known painter in Vietnam and he was a teacher at … [Read more...]
The sound of silennce No. 11 (120x120 cm) Tempera Prof. Dr, John Kleinen, Professor in History and Art, Specialist in Vietnamese History and Vietnamese art, Faculty of History, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Not so long ago one could hear the conception that … [Read more...]
Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm was born in 1919† to a Confucian scholar’s family in the Nam Đàn district of Nghệ An province, in the northern central coastal region of Vietnam. Nghiêm was a member of the 15th intake into the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine in 1941, where he studied … [Read more...]