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Welcome the third int'l percussion festival
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The Third International Percussion Festival themed “Cracking Bamboo", will be held on October 6, 7, and 10.
Using the foundations of percussion and rhythm, “Cracking Bamboo” hopes to combine Asian and Western musical styles to produce innovative, exciting, and previously unheard works.
Venues including the Goethe Institute, the Hanoi Youth Theatre, and Ho Chi Minh City Music Academy will host the festival’s performances.
The 2012 festival also features workshops in Bangkok for approximately 31 lucky participants. Artists from Germany, Norway, France, England, Mongolia, Canada, Belgium, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam are expected to attend the event.
Vietnam will be represented by three percussionists from the Ho Chi Minh City Music Academy as well as three Hanoian artists. Their contributions will feature traditional Vietnamese string instruments such as the “Dan Bau” (monochord) and the bamboo xylophone known as “Dan T`Rung”.
All participating musicians will spend five days in mixed ensemble groups, exploring the creative possibilities of individual solo contributions, improvisation and short composed segments. Ultimately, attendees aim to produce an arranged program for performances in Bangkok, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Free tickets are available from October 1 at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi. Tickets can also be collected at the institute’s Ho Chi Minh City branch from October 3.
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Oct
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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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Oct
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"Venus in Vietnam" exhibiton
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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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New destination in West Lake for audiophile's dream
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01/10/2012 09:19:39
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Special thing about Octoberfest
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01/10/2012 09:17:24
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Take a visit to a village drum maker in Vietnam
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01/10/2012 09:14:51
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The apperance of Hanoi International Film Festival
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01/10/2012 09:12:52
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Vietnam with the interesting news with International arrival is rising
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01/10/2012 09:02:34
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Concentrating on developing Northeastern region tourism
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01/10/2012 08:59:59
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November with Ha Long week 2012 event
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01/10/2012 08:11:29
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Testing single visa in Thailand and Cambodia
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29/09/2012 10:47:14
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Growth of Cambodia
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29/09/2012 10:40:20
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