Jean Francois Hubert, a French authority on Vietnamese art, asserted that the country’s art has great potential to thrive just like in its 1930s- 1980s heyday if there’s a competitive, booming local market for it. Hubert, who writes, lectures and holds exhibitions on Vietnamese art apart … [Read more...]
A Fertile Imagination
January 27, 2013 By
One of Vietnam's best known sculptors, 77-year-old Le Cong Thanh creates striking images of the female form. "I sculpt statues of women because a woman's sexuality and body allow me to better understand the mysterious truth of life," explains Mr. Thanh. "Painting is a means of expression, as is a … [Read more...]
The Complex Minimalism Of Le Thiet Cuong
January 16, 2013 By
Seeing paintings by Le Thiet Cuong at "Like a Nil" exhibition, many may think that it is very easy to copy his paintings, but that's just a joke, the way to Le Thiet Cuong's irreducibility is anything but simple. In art, people often love complicated techniques and many lose themselves in that … [Read more...]
Bui Xuan Phai and Other Painters in Hanoi (2002)
December 30, 2012 By
One of the great painters in this century, the Vietnamese artist Bui Xuan Phai passed away eleven years ago. He lived his life in poverty, and his talent was mostly disregarded by his contemporaries. He has gained a lot of recognition however, after his death – and so has thousands of artists who … [Read more...]
A Woman Artist’s Paintings
December 28, 2012 By
TRAN THI THU HA is the first artist with 30 paintings to be exhibited in the brand new H&S Art Gallery located in the very heart of Brussels antiques and fine arts shops (41/43 Rue Blaes, near place de La Chapelle). This new gallery is dedicated to Vietnamese artists only to enable Brussels … [Read more...]
Vietnamese Art Scene – Anthropologist’s View
November 27, 2012 By
June 2001 Distinguishing Distinctions: How to compare different sets of criteria from Vietnam to France? In what way can we use anthropology to understand the various mechanisms within the thoroughly specialised art worlds, where art historians, politicians, sociologists and philosophers have … [Read more...]
Bui Xuan Phai – The artist of Hanoi
November 25, 2012 By
Phai: The Artist of Hanoi brings together a range of works produced by Bui Xuan Phai in the twenty years of his friendship with the artist Van Duong Thanh, whom he first met in 1968 when she was a sixteen year old art student at the Hanoi Fine Arts College. Bui Xuan Phai’s reputation as one of … [Read more...]
In the shadows of Hanoi
November 21, 2012 By
In the cultural history of Vietnam, Hanoi has traditionally wielded inspiration for artists, crystallized in a strange mixture of its own rich Vietnamese heritage and the French colonial past, whose convergence reflects a unique aesthetic and temporal collision course within the country’s … [Read more...]
Trinh Tuan, a Lacquer Painter from Hanoi
November 18, 2012 By
The Chinese produced lacquer paintings already 800 years ago, but the lacquer painting technique has hit a renaissance due to a group of artists in Vietnam. They have taken the difficult art form into the 21st Century. Trinh Tuan is 38 years old and in many ways typical for the 6,000 artists who … [Read more...]
Cong Kim Hoa – The colors between the lines
November 14, 2012 By
Cong Kim Hoa’s revisiting of the language of expressionism juxtaposed with the disquieting potential of surprise draws together threads from a wealth of traditions. It is her superlative artistic sense that represents an important strength of her Vietnamese heritage. Hoa’s unique artistic … [Read more...]
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