Sep
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French, VN art exhibition aims to light up Paris
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An art exhibition on Viet Nam has opened at the Cernuschi Museum in Paris, France.
The exhibition From the Hong (Red) River to the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta features 79 works of art including oil paintings, silk, lacquer, water colours, bronze statues, and terracotta statues.
The works by both French and Vietnamese artists aim to take the audience to the natural landscape of Viet Nam and her likeable people from the late half of the 19th century to the 1950's.
The French artists include Victor Tardieu, Gaston Roullet, Jules Galand, Henri Dabadie, Charles Fouqueray, while Nam Son, Le Pho, Nguyen Phan Chanh, Vu Cao Dam, To Ngoc Van, Nguyen Gia Tri, and Tran Van Can are among the many Vietnamese artists.
Most of the Vietnamese artists were students at the Indochina School of Fine Arts. The school was established in 1925 under the guidance of French painter and accomplished teacher Victor Tardieu.
The exhibition will run until January 27, 2013.
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Sep
26
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Rung returns with eternal beauty of Eva
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‘Eva-Eternal Spring’ by artist Rung on Sunday opened at Tu Do Gallery, depicting the beauty of nude women harmonized with the joy of nature.
Tran Thi Thu Ha, owner of Tu Do Gallery, inspects Rung’s paintings. (Photo: SGT)
Eva (Eve) in Rung’s paintings lives in the Garden of Eden with the innocent life of flowers, birds, fish and stars. Eve is pregnant, gives birth but is still beautiful and full of vitality to raise Adam’s kids in the beauty of nature. Ten works of arts are made from synthetic materials, feasting viewers on an art party by joyfulness, freshness and brilliance which shine through in the paintings. Nude images of mother earth are scorching hot, supple body line soaring with star trucks, brimful of vitality with colorful flowers, fruits, green fields, and streams or dreaming with rainbow and clouds.
“Eve was the first woman to grace the earth and she is eternally young. She is the eternal spring and she is also young and graceful like spring,” said artist Rung.
Born in 1942, Rung - real name of Nguyen Tuan Khanh - since 1960 has given many solo and joined many group exhibitions in Vietnam, France and in the U.S.
The show runs till October 6 at the gallery, 53 Ho Tung Mau Street in District 1.
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Sep
26
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Norway legend leads VNSO
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VietNamNet Bridge – A night of classical and modern pieces will feature the Viet Nam National Symphony and Orchestra (VNSO) playing under the baton of Norwegian conductor Terje Mikkelsen tonight, Sept 25.
The concert will be the first time the conductor has worked with the VNSO. They will play pieces by classical composers such as Johan Svendsen, Tchaikovsky, Max Bruch, and contemporary Vietnamese composer Vu Nhat Tan.
Mikkelsen has been described by reviewers as "immensely compelling and dramatically powerful", and his control of sound, balance and textures as "masterly".
Mikkelsen graduated from the Norwegian State Music Academy, and then he studied and received his diploma in orchestral conducting from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
He has made 50 recordings with orchestras such as the Latvian National Orchestra, the Ukrainian National Orchestra, and the Lithuanian National Orchestra, and worked at key positions with orchestras around the world.
For his first performance in Ha Noi, Mikkelsen will lead the VNSO to a play new piece titled Ha Noi, Ha Noi... and Ha Noi, by composer Tan.
"It is a plentiful musical piece and an unique combination of piano and percussion," said the conductor after his first rehearsal with the musicians last week.
"The piece is not quite modern work but it is composed with different colours of music. Tan composed the piece for the VNSO. It is very interesting," the conductor said.
The score will be 15 minutes long and not divided into movements. "Ha Noi, Ha Noi... and Ha Noi is a self-reflection of the common daily activities and sounds of personal feelings for the city in which I was born and bred," said Tan.
The city is expanding, more crowded and complex than the place the composer remembers from his childhood.
The score is typically characterised by its overlapping and intertwining melodies and orchestration, creating a bunk of sounds in which a romantic piano melody can be heard against the noisy background of other instruments.
"Such is dedicated to describing Ha Noi," Tan said.
The VNSO will also play the piece Norwegian Artists' Carnival composed by Johan Svendsen (1840 -1911) for the first time. The composer was the first Norwegian symphonic composer, as well as one of the leading conductors of his day.
The work is in standard rondo form and has three main themes, all of them in major keys, including a Norwegian and an Italian folk tunes, as well as a popular Norwegian wedding dance.
Both as a composer and a conductor, Svendsen contributed to setting a new standard as regards the potential of the orchestra. He laid the groundwork for a Norwegian symphonic tradition, and a number of his works will go down as classics in Norwegian music history.
The concert will feature musicians from the VNSO with a solo violin performance by Bui Cong Duy.
Performances will take place tonight and tomorrow night at 8pm at the Ha Noi Opera House.
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Norway legend leads VNSO
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Buffalo fighting festival 2012 attracts over 30,000 visitors
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Hanoi to host German Oktoberfest 2012
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40th anniversary of Canada - Vietnam relationship logo competition
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Vietnamese artist wins recognition at Chopin Competition
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‘Happy Feet Slipper Race’ comes to Vietnam
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25/09/2012 10:59:23
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Rung returns with eternal beauty of Eva
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War wounds
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Schumann, Alpers return to capital
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