The "Dragon" exhibition was launched with a unique art decoration space to welcome the Lunar New Year 2024. Using traditional materials such as paper fans, bamboo strips, paper boats... to create works imbued with Vietnamese cultural identity.
Through this, the artists hope to convey the message of the descendants of the dragon and the fairy with strong, traditional images that are still modern and rising. In their works, the artists have connected contemporary art and traditional culture with simple, ordinary and familiar images, bringing a unique experience.
Thin is a collaboration between four young artists: Tu Moc Tra, Bui Doan Cuong, Nguyen Bach and Vu Hoang. The artists create contemporary stories using traditional materials, imbued with the Vietnamese spirit.
In the spiritual world of Vietnamese culture, the dragon exudes strong vitality and endless creativity. This symbol is deeply engraved in the flow of Vietnamese cultural heritage through the exhibition "Dragon".
With the combination of 4 young artists: Vu Hoang, Tu Moc Tra, Bui Doan Cuong, Nguyen Bach, they tell the story with diverse traditional materials, breathing life into the Vietnamese spirit through imagination and sophisticated creativity. The artworks at "Thin" are like a folk song that is both familiar and strange. The exhibition "Thin" is inspired by the powerful image of the dragon, combining many traditional materials, expressing folk culture with a modern spirit...
A long, graceful silk strip like a writhing dragon by artist Tu Moc Tra
Bringing traditional materials of the Vietnamese people into her works, Tu Moc Tra wishes to honor the beauty and quintessence of the Vietnamese people. The female artist shared: "Although society is increasingly developing and people are increasingly integrating, the unique cultural features of each ethnic group will never disappear." With an adventurous and artistic soul, Tu Moc Tra is determined to preserve the identity and culture of Vietnam in her own way through extremely meticulous and detailed works. Tu Moc Tra's works are inspired by the brocade of ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous region.
Tu Moc Tra's works are inspired by ethnic minority brocades.
“Suot” and “Thao” are two creative works from talented artist Tu Moc Tra.
With many years of studying and working as an Art teacher, artist Bui Doan Cuong is known as a teacher who always brings unique experiences about materials. Not only stopping at painting, Cuong's works are a complex combination of many materials and together express many layers of meaning about the world around us. "When Will Dawn Come" is a work that shows simplicity and closeness but also extremely profound.
Not only about colors and materials, the work "When Will Dawn Come" also conveys many messages about the surrounding world in a new way but uses very familiar and simple things in Bui Doan Cuong's life.
Bach Nguyen is a young artist but his works breathe life into the materials commonly found in art with a fresh breeze and the perspective of a young person in society. His works always have traditional features but are innovative and creative in a very unique way. The exhibited work “Raising skinny pigs” shows a new combination of art, materials and colors.
Bach Nguyen brings the work Raising Skinny Pigs, with the image of a red painted pig surrounded by paper coins.
Vu Hoang - from electrical engineer to artist. Vu Hoang's creative inspiration is mostly taken from real life. Vu Hoang brings to "Thin" the work "My Zoo" with many interesting things when connecting contemporary art with traditional culture, spiritual life around us through works of many materials.
"My creative inspiration comes mostly from real life. Born and raised in Hanoi, I am very familiar with urban life. Everything I see, even smell and hear, is through my inner senses and emotions, then expressed through art," said artist Vu Hoang.
Vu Hoang's work "My Zoo" combines many different materials to create works of art in the shape of fruits that appear on the Tet fruit tray.
In addition to the Dragon exhibition, the workshop collection of traditional products for the Lunar New Year is also a notable highlight taking place here. Visitors to the exhibition can create traditional decorative products for the Tet holiday such as flower lanterns, decorative trays, lucky peach trees, etc.
The "Dragon" exhibition runs until February 18, 2024 at Our.Hanoi, 292 Bach Dang, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi.
The brilliant space at the "Dragon" exhibition is currently attracting a large number of young people to visit.
