In the last days of the year, when Ho Chi Minh City gradually returns to the hurried life as before the pandemic, Articific launched the painting exhibition "Being Quiet" as a "small stop" for souls still "dizzy" by the change in the pace of urban life, creating a quiet space for us to rest, reduce the burden before entering a new cycle with daily hustle and bustle.
Exhibition space "Being quiet"
The exhibition "Being Still" displays the latest works of artist Nguyen Ngoc Liem - a young artist practicing free art in Bien Hoa and Saigon. His works tend to purify scenes, memories of forests, sky, still life and tell them through a simple visual experience, and all of these can be completely encountered when entering the exhibition space.
Painter Nguyen Ngoc Liem (left) stands next to art researcher Ly Doi in the exhibition "Being Quiet"
"Liem's paintings are rustic yet fresh in the use of color, innocent in the way they create shapes, but in that rusticity and innocence, viewers can enter a state of tranquility, a depth that many people in this bustling society consider a luxury" - blogger Trang Ps shared after visiting the exhibition, "I think everyone will find that value, no matter how they feel now, satisfied or dissatisfied, happy or sad...".
The work "Green Winter"
The work "Morning River with Gray Color"
The past year 2021 was probably a long year with countless disturbances and confusion, difficulties and challenges constantly coming, forcing people to learn to accept and overcome. Life continues, time still passes, but instead of letting fear become an obsession that weighs heavily on the mind, many artists have taken new journeys to set foot in a place where they can find peace of mind - a place called "painting".
For Nguyen Ngoc Liem, in "Being Quiet", he wishes to share his small, simple joys through his paintings depicting "quiet" landscapes. This is the result of a "change of pace" trip, but it is filled with inspiration that he gathered from the transitions of space-time, geography and culture, from the South to the North, from the plains to the highlands, from cities to remote villages.
The work "The Realm of Pink Mist"
According to Arctic: "Liem said he listened to 'the silence of the night - the silence of people' through Trinh Cong Son's lyrics, and found melancholy in the quiet, simplicity of trees, mist, mountains and hills. He carefully painted melancholy, colored the peace, presented the beauty of stillness in real life, as he received 'signals' from nature."
"And perhaps each viewer will suddenly find this 'signal' for themselves, somewhere in the fleeting clouds of 'Morning', in the bright hope of 'Pink Mist', through the vitality of leaves in 'Green Winter Morning', or drunk in the quiet silence of 'Morning River with Gray Color'...".
The work "Mist in the Mountain"
The work "Tam Dao Pass Corner"
The exhibition "Being Quiet" will be open until January 25, 2022. To ensure health safety during the epidemic, visitors need to register in advance atshorturl.at/afmGSas well as present a green card, or F0 disease recovery certificate, and declare health and comply with 5K when attending the exhibition.
Immediately after the physical exhibition ended, Artcific continued to welcome art lovers to enjoy "Being Quiet" through a virtual exhibition, displayed online on the platform.Artcific.comfrom January 27, 2022 to February 27, 2022.
Exhibition "Being Quiet" - Painter Nguyen Ngoc Liem
Opening hours: 10:00 to 19:00 (from January 16, 2022 to January 25, 2022)
Ticket price: 20,000 VND
Address: Artcific House - 2nd Floor, 162 bis Bui Thi Xuan, Pham Ngu Lao Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
