A new exhibit titled Food for Thought at Galerie Quynh in HCM City’s District 1 offers a surrealistic take on the theme of food and people. In his first exhibition in his native country, New York-based artist Nguyen Gia Trong is displaying provocative works that tease viewers’ imaginations. Upon entering the showroom, guests see a [...]
Young artist Vu Bach Lien has opened her first solo exhibition entitled Tu Nhin (Feel It Myself) at the South Korean Cultural Centre in Ha Noi, where she is showcasing 47 out of the 120 works of art she created last year. Lien, who is married to a South Korean, has a thorough knowledge of [...]
A photo exhibition on three ethnic minorities (including Co Tu, Ta Oi and Pa Ko) in central Thua Thien-Hue province taken by French photographer Sebastien Laval will be held at the French Cultural Centre in Hanoi on November 6-22, 2008. With 50 mainly black-and-white photos, the exhibition will offer viewers a snap shot of the [...]
An exhibition by an overseas artist Pham Thi Doan Thanh, titled Ban Lang Trong Thung Lung (Villages in Mountain Valleys), has opened last Friday at the Viet Nam Ethnology Museum in Ha Noi. The show gathers 42 paintings featuring ethnic minority women and children amid the natural landscape of northern mountainous provinces. After studying [...]
“I like the warmness, the enthusiasm of Vietnamese people, and I decided to stay in this land,” said female Japanese painter Takeo Akiko, who recently had her first painting exhibition named “Vietnam – The Land I Love” in Hanoi from September 13-16. The exhibition showed the view of a Japanese woman who loves Vietnam to [...]
Artist couple Duong Anh and Minh Phuong are one of the few artists now still pursuing the passion for panel posters. They just opened their exhibition on the kind at the Vietnam Revolutionary Museum yesterday afternoon. The exhibition displays over 100 panel posters featuring the Party, State and President Ho Chi Minh; international friendship [...]
An exhibition of 14 abstract paintings titled Strikes and Gutters by Scottish artist Daniel Joel Hume is now on at Himiko Visual Cafe in HCM City. “Strikes and Gutters is, for me, an analogy of life,” Hume said at the opening last Thursday. “It’s a short phrase spoken in a film by the Coen brothers [...]
Thirty-six large-sized paintings on Buddhism and Vietnamese Belief by Trinh Yen are on display at an exhibition which opened on Thursday. “The oil paintings are impressive in with their rich Oriental style and underlying Western tones,” said Associate Professor Nguyen Ngoc Dung, head of the Design Department at Ha Noi Open University. “The painter [...]