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VietNamNet Bridge – The “Venus in Vietnam” exhibition will introduce artworks concentrated in imagery and gender, as well as extended meanings of these themes in the social, cultural and political context of Vietnam in late 20th century and early 21st century.
Late artist Vu Dan Tan (1946 - 2009) is known to be a brilliant artist, a leader in Vietnam’s art in the post-renovation period.
He opened up new artistic horizons in Vietnam in the 1980s, with the creation of multimedia, multi-art form works, using rich materials of the everyday life. He is considered one of the pioneers in radical artistic activities in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Artist Nguyen Nghia Cuong (born in 1973), graduated from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts and is currently in the middle of his career. He is known by experts and art lovers for his satirical approach on contemporary practices and the dominance of pragmatic hedonism and brand culture.
On the occasion of the 3rd death anniversary of artist Vu Dan Tan, the Goethe Institute in collaboration with the relevant agencies and organizations to organize an exhibition of, installation and sculpture works by Vu Dan Tan and new works by Nguyen Nghia Cuong, with the theme "Venus in Vietnam". The exhibition is a comparison of artworks by of two artists from Hanoi, who belong to two generations.
The works introduced in this exhibition are curated by critic Iola Lenzi and Natasha Kraevskaja. Critic Iola Lenzi has collected a lot of artworks by Vu Dan Tan and organized exhibitions to introduce his artworks in Singapore, in 2001 and 2003.
The “Venus in Vietnam” exhibition will introduce Vu Dan Tan’s works that have never been exhibited in Vietnam, such as: Venus and Fashion and other representative works created by Vu Dan Tan until before his death.
Some of these sculptures were exhibited in Germany (8th Sculpture Triennial Exhibition Sculpture, Fellbach, 2001), and at many exhibitions in Japan, the Netherlands, and Singapore. But in Vietnam, they are only known by Tan’s artists and friends who visited the "Natasha Salon" during the time Tan composed these works.
Artists Nguyen Nghia Cuong continued to explore, research on the intersection of popular culture, advertising and pragmatic hedonism with social life in a series of new works called “Beauty High Quality”. These works will be on display next to the works of the late artist Vu Dan Tan.
The Venus Vietnam Exhibition in is opening up on October 3at the Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Hanoi, and will last until October 14.
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