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The "Dragon" exhibition opens with a unique artistic decoration space to welcome the Lunar New Year 2024. Using traditional materials such as paper fans, bamboo slats, paper boats, etc., the artworks are rich in Vietnamese cultural identity.
Through these works, the artists aim to convey the message of the descendants of dragons and fairies with powerful, traditional yet modern and uplifting imagery. In their creations, the artists have connected contemporary art and traditional culture with simple, ordinary, and familiar images, offering a unique experience.
Thìn is a collaboration between four young artists: Tử Mộc Trà, Bùi Doãn Cường, Nguyễn Bách, and Vũ Hoàng. The artists create contemporary stories using traditional materials, embodying the spirit of the Vietnamese people.
In the spiritual world of Vietnamese culture, the dragon exudes powerful vitality and boundless creativity. This symbol is deeply ingrained in the flow of Vietnamese cultural heritage through the "Dragon" exhibition.
With the collaboration of four young artists: Vu Hoang, Tu Moc Tra, Bui Doan Cuong, and Nguyen Bach, they tell a story using 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 novel. The "Thin" exhibition draws inspiration from the powerful image of the dragon, combining many traditional materials to express folk culture with a modern spirit...
The long, flowing silk ribbon, like a winding dragon, is a creation of artist Tu Moc Tra.
By incorporating traditional Vietnamese materials into her artwork, Tu Moc Tra aims to honor the beauty and essence of Vietnamese culture. The artist shared: "Even as society develops and people become more integrated, the unique cultural characteristics of each ethnic group will never disappear." With an adventurous and artistic spirit, Tu Moc Tra is determined to preserve the identity and culture of Vietnam in her own way through incredibly meticulous and detailed works. Her artwork draws inspiration from the brocade fabrics of ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous regions.
Tu Moc Tra's artwork is inspired by the brocade fabrics of ethnic minority communities.
"Suốt" and "Thao" are two creative works from the 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 in terms of materials. Not limited to painting, Cuong's works are a complex combination of various materials, together expressing multiple layers of meaning about the world around us. "When Will the Dawn Rise?" is a work that embodies simplicity and familiarity, yet is also profoundly insightful.
Beyond just colors and materials, the artwork "When Will the Dawn Rise?" conveys many messages about the world around us in a novel way, yet using very familiar and simple things in life, as envisioned by Bui Doan Cuong.
Bach Nguyen is a young artist, but his works breathe new life into common art materials with a fresh perspective and the viewpoint of a young person in society. His works always have a traditional feel but are unconventional and creative, reflecting a very unique identity. His exhibited work, "Raising Skinny Pigs," demonstrates a novel combination of art, materials, and color.
Bach Nguyen presents the artwork "Raising a Skinny Pig," featuring a red-painted pig surrounded by paper coins.
Vu Hoang - from electrical engineer to artist. Vu Hoang's creative inspiration mostly comes from real life. At the "Thin" event, Vu Hoang presented his work "My Zoo," which offers many interesting connections between contemporary art and traditional culture, and the spiritual life around us, through works with diverse materials.
"My creative inspiration mostly comes from real life. Born and raised in Hanoi, I am very familiar with urban life and activities. Everything I see, even smell and hear, is conveyed through my senses and inner emotions, and then expressed through art," artist Vu Hoang said.
Vu Hoang's work "My Zoo" combines various materials to create artworks in the shape of fruits found on the traditional New Year's fruit platter.
Besides the Dragon exhibition, a collection of workshops on traditional products for the Lunar New Year is also a noteworthy highlight currently taking place here. Visitors to the exhibition can try their hand at creating traditional decorative items for Tet such as flower lanterns, decorative trays, auspicious peach blossom trees, etc.
The "Dragon" exhibition runs until February 18, 2024, at Our.Hanoi, 292 Bach Dang Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi.
The vibrant space at the "Dragon" exhibition is currently attracting a large number of young people to visit.
