Sep
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San Art Gallery founders exhibit works in USA
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Artworks by all four founders of the San Art Gallery in HCM City are showcased in an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) until December 31.
Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art features the works of Dinh Q Le, the Propeller Group and Tiffany Chung.
The exhibition, curated by Apsara DiQuinzio, brings together nearly 20 artists and art collectives from six cities around the globe that have become burgeoning artistic centers-Beirut (Lebanon), Cali (Colombia), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), HCM City (Vietnam), San Francisco (USA), and Tangier (Morocco).
Six Lines of Flight convenes artists who have created and helped build diverse organizations on a grassroots level in the six cities, presenting works that index the distinctive histories and cultural character of each location, says DiQuinzio.
According to a SFMOMA press release, the art scene in Vietnam used to be chiefly centered in Hanoi, but in recent years it has become increasingly identified with HCM City, thanks largely to the formation of San Art.
“San Art has brought many international artists and curators to HCM City for the first time, helping to bridge local Vietnamese communities and the international contemporary art circuit, and regularly presents the work of local Vietnamese artists”, it says.
A full color catalog with text by writers from each city and their respective organization has been published for this occasion.
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Sep
20
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“The Colours of Vietnam” shines in US
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An exhibition entitled “Vietnamese Contemporary Art: The Colours of Vietnam” is now on show at the Washington Arts Club in the USA from September 7-29.
The event is a cultural exchange organized by the Vietnamese embassy in the US to commemorate the 67th anniversary of Vietnam’s National Day (September 2).
The paintings on display represent a wide range of styles and media, from traditional techniques such as lacquer and oil on canvas, to unique materials like rice bags.
The 30 paintings by seven artists depict Vietnam from its struggle for national independence to its current stage of development, offering the American audience a broad view of daily life in the country including family love, beautiful Vietnamese women in ao dai (traditional long dress) and changes in the capital city of Hanoi.
The exhibition features artists Hong Viet Dung, Dao Thanh Duy, Bui Huu Hung, Pham Luc, Tran Luu My, Dinh Quan, and Le Thanh Son, some of whom are self-taught, and some received a classical art education. All seven artists have shown their work internationally in Asia, Europe and the United States.
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Sep
20
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Woodblock prints get modern twist
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VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition at Ha Noi's Goethe Institute by German artist Christiane Baumgartner combines the old craft of wood-block prints with the modern technology of video.
Pre-jet: (from left) Dr Almuth Meyer-Zollitsch, head of the Ha Noi Goethe Institute; artist Christiane Baumgartner; and Ralph Lindner, director of the Cultural Foundation of Saxony with the eye-catching piece Transall, which measures 1.5m by 4.3m. — Photo courtesy Goethe Institute
The Wood Cut in the Digital Age exhibition features about 50 works by Baumgartner, who said she created her wood
blocks based on images captured in her own video stills.
The show includes the eye-catching piece Transall, which features three jet planes standing in a queue and measures 1.5m by 4.3m. It was made in 2002 after Baumgartner saw a newspaper picture of planes crashing into the World Trade Centre.
"The jet plane is a symbol of power and strength, and it's also a technology that has had a great impact on people," said Baumgartner.
Prints of the work can be found in the collections of the Albertina in Vienna, the Museum der bildende Kunste Leipzig, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Zabludowicz Collection in London.
Other works including books and a video are also on display at the exhibition in Ha Noi, which will run through September.
Many of the works on show at the Goethe Institute explore the convergence of speed and a standstill. Baumgartner's chosen format is the monumental monochrome woodcut, in designs and images inspired by video stills.
"Woodcut is a very traditional art but nowadays not many people know much about it," she said. "So I have combined woodcuts with the visual art video."
Almost of the works were inspired from images in videos of simple everyday scenes such as a blurred forest seen from a moving car or a trip through a city at night.
"For 10 years I have been working with woodcuts based on selected video stills. When viewed close up the image seems abstract, but the further one is away from the picture, the more recognisable it gets," said the artist.
"The time factor is important to me and the contrast between the slow time-consuming technique of carving wood and the motifs, which are often related to speed, such as highways and airplanes."
Baumgartner studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and at the Royal College of Art, London. Her main artistic medium is printmaking.
She is the first artist to be awarded the newly created annual residency grant, presented by the Cultural Foundation of Saxony and organised jointly with the Goethe Institute in Viet Nam.
Being a guest artist in Ha Noi for three months Baumgartner said she hoped to immerse herself in the culture and the arts scene in Viet Nam.
"I am grateful to be selected because there are many artists applying for this grant. I hope to co-ordinate with Vietnamese art students to create some good works," she said.
Baumgartner said her new work dealt with landscapes, especially with reflections in bodies of water, a motif that she wanted to further develop during her residency in Ha Noi.
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Century-Old Le Beaulieu at Metropole Named “One of World’s Best”
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20/09/2012 08:41:13
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Conde Nast Traveller votes the Nam Hai as Best Overseas Spa Hotel
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20/09/2012 08:39:57
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Opera “Cosi fan Tutte” by Mozart to be performed in Hanoi
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20/09/2012 08:35:21
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Northeastern Region Ethnic Minority Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival to be held at the end of this month
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20/09/2012 08:31:16
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Dossier on Trang An Tourism Complex to be submitted to UNESCO
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20/09/2012 08:22:44
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Thousands expected for Cambodia's Sea Festival
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19/09/2012 12:00:31
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Prehistoric relics unearthed in Tuyen Quang
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19/09/2012 11:37:11
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Festival honours northeastern ethnic groups
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19/09/2012 11:30:57
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Cat Tien Park ready for world natural heritage status
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19/09/2012 11:25:01
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