VietNamNet Bridge – Silk paintings by Vietnamese artist Bui Tien Tuan featuring the beauty of the female form, will be on display at HCM City's Craig Thomas Gallery tomorrow, Sep 8.

Form and beauty: Bui Tien Tuan's work Young Lady (2011), an ink and watercolour painting on silk, can be seen at the Phu Phiem (Frivolity) exhibition in HCM City through September 25.
Phu Phiem – Frivolity is Tuan's second solo exhibition of silk paintings. The first exhibition, Lua (Silk), at Tu Do Gallery in HCM City in June 2009, featured 20 images of urban women.

In his Phu Phiem series, Tuan "eschews idealised landscapes and scenes of village life that dominate much of traditional Vietnamese silk painting for a Phu Phiem or frivolous world, where sensual and charming women flaunt their beauty, their fashion, and their naked form," said a press release.

"Tuan's subjects are mostly portrayed nude with the skin unpainted or uncoloured, emphasising his belief in the intimate and symbiotic relationship between silk and skin."
The exhibition will last until next Monday at Craig Thomas Gallery's annex gallery space in District 2's Thao Dien Ward.

It will then move to Craig Thomas Gallery's main gallery in District 1 and continue on view until September 25.

Tuan, 40, graduated from the HCM City Fine Arts College in 1998.

His works have been exhibited locally and at the Combee Gallery in the UK and the Art Exhibition for World Peace in South Korea.

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