VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition by Vietnamese surrealist artists will take place on Thursday in Hanoi.

Cloud Netting In East Swamp, 140cm by 160cm, an oil painting by Pham Huy Thong

Entitled ‘Surreality/Reality’, the exhibition presents a shared spirit: there is reality in surreality, there is surreality in reality.

Art Director of VICAS Art Studio, Bui Quang Thang, said the exhibition will show how surrealism has been expressed in Vietnam.

“The artworks express the artists’ spirit of imagination and romance as well as the artists’ skillful realism techniques,” he said.

Pham Huy Thong’s paintings are full of ideas about social and human issues; his expression is witty, though ironic and critical. Le Nguyen Manh’s paintings are classically romantic, yet their characters are always associated with contemporary figures. Vu Muoi’s paintings are embedded with the nineteenth-century romance, yet his language is so much modern.

The paintings of Hoang Khanh Du, a Tay man, are the most unique among all. His paintings are an example of the extension of the ethnic tradition in modern society, the co-existence of the past – future, divine – human. The art language in his paintings is especially new, such a difference from the refined style of Classical surrealism school.

The exhibition will run until September 26 at VICAS Art Studio, 32 Hao Nam Street. 

Source: VNS