Sewing the Sunset, a lacquer by Cong Kim Hoa
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Imposing landscapes, daily life stories and internalsensations are themes of a joint exhibition between Vietnamese, Japanese andThai artists.
The exhibition, entitled Silent Talk, opened on May 15 at the Vietnam Fine ArtsMuseum, featuring paintings and sculptures of Wattanachot Tungateja, MukaiKatsumi and Cong Kim Hoa.
Coming from three different cultures, the three artists have their ownmaterials and methods of expression.
Tungateja uses modern acrylic material. The objects in his paintings appear tobe simple, such as rocks or the sky, but they represent abstract images of theworld and humanity, when the audience takes a closer look.
Meanwhile, Hoa uses Vietnamese traditional lacquer. Her abstract paintings aremade up of bold shades and brushstrokes, and successfully make the most of thecolour lacing technique of lacquer art. In her paintings, shapes and strokesare just a tool to embellish the background.
One painting in Eart and Sky series by Wattanachot Tungateja Art critic Phan Cam Thuong observed her creative journey with the appreciationof how she has brought out the beauty by using her own language.
“She seems to be at the balance point, without showing off formality, withoutcomplexity, but also there exists no sign of negligence nor carelessness,” saidThuong.
“She consciously discovers any subtle forms to expose that emotional world.”
Mukai is familiar with Vietnamese audiences, with many majestic works displayedin grand art centres in the country. His artworks exhibited at the exhibitionare made of wood. These wooden sculptures are neither human-shaped noranything-shaped, but evoke the invisible links between humans and nature. Mukaialso showcases some abstract pencil paintings with the same inspiration withwooden sculpture.
“These sculptures from Mukai bring the audience to a space where they canobserve and feel the organic sensibility of creations – purity and consistency– there are even metaphors of up and down rhythms of planes, a transformingbetween solid and spatial volume of forms, various sizes of shapes and thecontinuous moving of lighting gradients, which are created by an energetic souland precise carving hands,” said art critic Pham Long.
One painting in Eart and Sky series by Wattanachot Tungateja “Being open to the dawn, resigning themselves to the twilight or the solitudeat the corner of an unknown room, the inelegant sculptures of Mukai arestanding quietly, but vibrating an enormous energy, the energy of silentspirit, the energy which whisper to us about the fate of trees, the destiny ofhuman beings and the cycle of life and death in this world,” he said.
The art critics shared the same opinion, that the exhibition is highlyrecommended to see because the artists are all noted names and serious abouttheir creativity.
The exhibition will run until May 22 at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, 66 NguyenThai Hoc street, Hanoi.-VNA