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Woodcuts in Digital Age, which features 50 woodblock prints, series and large format pieces, by Christiane Baumgartner, as well as artists’ books and a video will open at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi from September 8 to 30.
German Baumgartner will be a guest artist in Hanoi for three months from September 1. She is the first artist to be awarded the newly-created annual residency grant, presented by the Cultural Foundation of Saxony and organized jointly with the Goethe Institute in Vietnam. Graphic artist Baumgartner, who has become known internationally for her large-scale innovative woodcuts, will immerse herself in the culture and the arts scene in Vietnam, going in search of traditional wood carving and sharing her experiences on the topic of the art of woodcuts with young artists.
The Leipzig-based artist will also work on her own projects in a studio at the Center of Contemporary Art in Hanoi. The aim of the scholarship is not only to find new inspiration in Vietnam, but also to establish contact with local artists. Therefore, she will participate in artists’ meetings and in October/November will give a week-long Open Academy workshop at art schools in Hanoi, Hue and Saigon.
She has studied at the School of Visual Arts in Leipzig and the Royal College of Art, London. Her medium is printmaking and particularly well known are her woodcuts.
For these she usually works from her own video recordings, producing stills in the form of woodcuts, often in very large formats. Her works are in museums in Leipzig, Vienna, London, New York and Amsterdam.
The Goethe Institute Hanoi at 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street will invite well-known Hanoi artists to a German-Vietnamese artist discussion at 6:30 p.m. on September 12. The focus is the woodcut, which has a centuries-old tradition in both Germany and Vietnam. Currently, there are trends in both countries to revive this art form by combining it with new media, new styles and new image content.
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