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Female iconography, sexuality to go on show in Hanoi
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VietNamNet Bridge – Installation and sculptural works by late artist Vu Dan Tan and recent pieces by Nguyen Nghia Cuong focusing on female iconography and sexuality will come on display at ‘Venus in Vietnam’ at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi from October 4 to 14. The exhibition compares and contrasts the works of the two Hanoi artists a generation apart.
The late Vietnamese artist Vu Dan Tan - Photo: Courtesy of organizers
The show also expands the theme into social circumstances, culture and politics of Vietnam in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
This year marks the third anniversary of Tan’s death. In honor of this extraordinary man, who is considered one of the leading artists of Vietnam’s post-Doi Moi (Innovation) scene, the show features works that have never been shown in Vietnam with delicate cardboard suits and miniature installations of female figures in glass-lidded cigarette boxes. They represent his Venus and Fashion series, which he worked on for several years until his death.
Some of these sculptures were exhibited in Germany (8th Sculpture Triennial-Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2001), and later included in major exhibitions in Japan, the Netherlands and Singapore, but in Vietnam, they were known only to friends and other artists who dropped into “Salon Natasha” while Tan was working on them.
Tan, whose multi-media cross-disciplinary practice broke new ground in the 1980s with its conceptual and playful use of found materials, is now recognized as a pioneer of the Southeast Asian contemporary avant-garde. This exhibition offers access to a facet of his work widely unknown in his home country.
Cuong, a graduate of Vietnam Fine Arts University, now mid-career, is known for his ironic approach to contemporary reality, dominated by consumerism and brand-culture. In his recent series Beauty High Quality, he continues his investigation of the intersection of popular culture, advertising and consumerism, with life and society.
There will be a workshop on female iconography and sexuality in Vietnamese and Asian contemporary art with Cuong, Natalia Kraevskai and Lala Lenzi, curators of the shows at 6:30 p.m. on October 5 at the institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street in Hanoi.
*An art exhibition on Apple founder Steve Jobs will be held at 11 a.m. on October 5 at the capital’s National Library at 31 Trang Thi Street.
The event features 21 oil on canvas works and a steel-composite sculpture by artist Bui Van Khoa, sculptor Le Dinh Quy and Nguyen Duc Tien, a researcher at Apple trade mark and Steve P. Jobs.
There is a lot of interest in Jobs but this is the first art exhibition to feature this historical character who brought an evolution to worldwide technology. During the event, there are two presentations and meetings on Steve Jobs at the National Library in the afternoons of October 5-6. The exhibition wraps up at 2 p.m. on October 7.
All these works will be presented to audiences nationwide in mobile exhibitions by the end of the year.
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