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A staff member of Cactus Contemporary Arts Gallery hangs up a painting - Photo: My Tran
The ‘Multiple Roads’ of Pham Tran Viet Nam, Nguyen Van Du, Phan Thi Mai Phuong, Thuy Anh, Nguyen Anh Thao, Truong Cong Tung and Phan Anh is currently on show at Cactus Contemporary Art Gallery in town.
The young artists use varied materials to make their own works appear in different content and styles as well as express their views on art.
They also want to stress to visitors that the exhibition is a colorful mosaic painting made from nay works and that there are many roads to practice art.
In that multicolor painting, visitors will see many issues, many voices as well as many thoughts as one artist depicts criticism on negative social problems, another sees life as fragile as a ceramic pot, some tell their deep loneliness, one uses a brush to explore hell and another expresses their dreams in colors.
“I paint big-bellied men and some women to signify the dark side of the development of Vietnam’s society. Time by time, a character is formed, and is reformed by erasing, casting, shaping over all my canvases,” said Nguyen Van Du.
Phan Anh said that “The changes in one’s mind and body are their own calling. The act of conceptualizing and journaling them down by a medium is just like when we are only left with a trace of bread which crumbles, so that we can track back the time and the place that we have been to.”
Meanwhile, Thuy Anh said that “Painting is as simple as it should be. I like to paint what I want to see and it is not important if it makes sense or not. Space on canvas can be shaped to make it interesting, attractive and adorable.”
The show runs until September 8 at the gallery, 17/12 Nguyen Huy Tuong Street in Binh Thanh District.
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