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VietNamNet Bridge - Vu Thai Binh, Ngo Duc Hoang and Tran Ngoc Hung have brought the colors of Hanoi’s quiet, fresh and romantic autumn to HCM City through 74 paintings.
Ngo Duc Hoang, Vu Thai Binh and Tran Ngoc Hung at the opening ceremony
at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts on September 16.
The 3 Hanoi artists recently made an impressive trip to the South when they brought dozens of large-scale artworks to an exhibition in HCM City. Each of them has their own taste and creativeness.
The oldest artist is Ngo Duc Hoang, 38. Hoang’s paintings are oil and acrylic works that deliver the "heat" of original colors, which confront each other, with strongly visual impression. His paintings repeat the images of Bac Ninh love duet singers with kerchieves, basket-shaped bamboo hats, four-panel traditional dresses or Red Dao ethnic girls with heavy towels on their heads. These pictures also show the maximum simplicity in details.
That simplicity and lifestyle were learned from the Vietnamese folk paintings. Hoang has a mania for Dong Ho folk paintins and is a collector of paintings featuring the life of highlanders, especially the paintings about oracles and shamen. Hoang’s artworks are the harmony between traditional culture and modern beauty. This is an advantage makes his paintings to be favored by many foreign art-lovers.
Unlike Duc Hoang, Vu Thai Binh introduces his paintings about Buddhism to the audience of HCM City.
Most paintings by Thai Binh are large-sized works, which describe monks begging for alms, chanting, praying, and enjoying lotus blossom.
"I want to express something really deep and profound, which oppose to the vibrant life today and remind viewers to respect inner peace as well as to preserve the peace of life," Thanh Binh said.
Visitors see paintings depicting Buddhist activities by Vu Thai Binh.
Tran Ngoc Hung is the youngest artist in the group, who was born in 1983. Ngoc Hung pursues a harder and luxurious material - lacquer.
In Hung's paintings, the topics vary, from nature scenes to daily life, from the plains to the scenes of living and culture of ethnic groups. Besides artworks describing the surroundings, he also has lacquer paintings about emotion and the abstract state of mind. Gold and silver used in Hung’s paintings are real gold, silver, so it took him 1-2 months to complete a painting.
It is difficult but Hung loves this traditional material very much. "The first time exhibiting my works in HCM City, which I expect is to exchange experience with Southern artists as well as looking forward to sharing feelings, thoughts of the audience on my paintings ", Ngoc Hung said.
Painter Thanh Binh, deputy director of the HCM City Fine Arts Museum, said that the 3 artist as well as a lot of young painters in Hanoi now show their hardworking and strong creative sense.
"The exhibition called ‘The colors of autumn’ but it does not specifically describe the autumn in Hanoi. Autumn as an excuse to show a combination of improvisation among 3 personalities in the line of paintings by young authors from the capital city," he said.
The exhibition will last at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum until September 27.
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