VietNamNet Bridge – The cutting-edge contemporary art exhibition “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” is coming to HCMC and Hanoi.

The Fiction house (parts) made of pen, watercolor on paper by Ryoko Aoki will come on display at exhibition “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” in Hanoi and HCMC - Photo: Courtesy of organizers

The show is held in celebration of Japan-Vietnam Friendship Year by the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam and Consulate General of Japan in HCMC, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan in Vietnam, the foundation announces in a statement.

Curated by art critic Midori Matsui, the exhibition features 35 works including drawings, paintings, and video works by 14 young Japanese artists active from 1995-2010.

The artists will present their distinctive views of the world through the combination of fragments and imbuing the obsolete or the commonplace with new functions or meanings, sharing the similar style of expression, which Matsui calls Micropop.

The show also includes three video works by Koki Tanaka, who has been selected as the representative artist for the Japan pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia in Italy.

The exhibition will take place at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Street from June 8 to 23 and at the Exhibition House at HCMC Labor Culture Palace at 55B Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street in HCMC’s District 1 from July 6 to 21.

Source: SGT