Biography of painter Tran Ngoc Hung
Young painter Tran Ngoc Hung was born in 1982, graduated with a Bachelor majoring in Lacquer and has a Master’s degree in Fine Arts. He currently works at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and is a member of Vietnam Fine Arts Association.
Despite his young age in the art career, Tran Ngoc Hung has affirmed his talent through countless group and individual exhibitions from 2007 to 2019. One of his outstanding exhibitions is a solo exhibition named “Forest Banana Trees”, held at Korean Cultural Center in 2018.
“My art perspective is that everything must come from love and passion; when we have passion, we can overcome hardship. When doing art, there must be a journey, there must be a destination. Most likely, during the journey, we have no luck in grasping that destination and that dream, but we have searching purpose.
I love lacquer with all my heart, I am an artist who aspires to search with traditional Vietnamese lacquer in my own journey. It is very arduous to complete a lacquer work, and in that harsh journey, the artist must have faith. It is faith that helps us to follow the journey, the path we have traced. And when we have passion, dream, desire, we can overcome all difficulties.”
Painter Tran Ngoc Hung with a passionate heart shared his passion for painting with lacquer material.
In real life, he deeply researches and learns about lacquer material processing techniques when he works as a restoration expert at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum.
He carries with him a motivation, a burning desire of youth. He creates art with enthusiasm, hard work, and diligence. And actually, in his works, we feel abundant energy and strength of many levels.
His works contain strong lines, seemingly unconscious and free. However, the freedom to adapt with those unconscious zigzag lines still lies in a holistic composition. Each work exudes an explosive and youthful energy source which we will feel when watching it.
Do you see lava flows – flowing in underground veins, not knowing the lavaity that makes you think you’re standing somewhere inside the earth – or are you flying over satellites and looking down at a volcanic bed?! That can only be “Sediment” by Painting Tran Ngoc Hung.
Artwork: Sediment vesel- painter Tran Ngoc Hung; size: 120×180- 2017-2019
He said: “I go looking for the color palette of lacquer, like digging thousands of layers into the ground, not knowing when to arrive. But I believe, I have a faith in my lacquer palette.”
In his quest to discover the inner emotions in the material itself, with works at the exhibition “Lacquer Painting – Expression and Abstraction”, Tran Ngoc Hung has created his own identity as a painter.
IDENTITY OF TRAN NGOC HUNG
For a young artist like Tran Ngoc Hung, the most important thing is to keep his creative mind pure, not being clouded by matter, money and fame. It is only the Creative Mind that is the fire feeding art and the artist himself.
Artist Tran Ngoc Hung was born in 1982, graduated in lacquer major in University of Industrial Fine Arts in 2009, and graduated from Master of Figurative Arts in Vietnam Fine Arts University in 2014. Having passionate and love for drawing, as well as desire to become a professional painter, Tran Ngoc Hung has always worked hard – trying to find the answer to his great “aspiration”.
At first, the painter used gouache on wind paper, then has dedicated all his hard work, talent and love for Lacquer since he passed the entrance exam to the University of Industrial Fine Arts. Since his school time, Tran Ngoc Hung has been very passionate about drawing. Regardless of noons or Sundays, he paints whenever he had the opportunity to.
During the long time of studying and creating art, he only conceived drawing to express his own feelings, draw to free his internal boundaries and enjoy the visible foreign world. In his heart, the passion for beauty is endless. Drawing to get beauty. The beauty is to enjoy, with pictures and also colors. Tran Ngoc Hung fascinately researches the colors of nature and natural light. “Forest Banana Trees” is full of Tran Ngoc Hung’s colors. It describes sunlight’s reflection and its results: the yellow of the banana flower, the red of the banana, the yellow of the banana leaf – which is the color of the leaves tanned under the sunlight turns into a strong pink…
In the painter’s heart, emotions are now very strong. His love is orderly in harmony with the soul and natural sceneries. His colors tactic is very “adventurous”, creating beautiful impression colors of life.
Tran Ngoc Hung looks deeply into the physical characteristics of the local lacquer, selectively acquires its art and learns its best quintessence to follow and create a new color palette, in order to develope lacquer painting art. Painting is the art of shaping, therefore its root is shaping.
Abstract paintings are also shaped very variously. Abstract painting also requires a long time process of learning, experiencing, accumulating knowledge and knowledge of the painter.
Painter Tran Ngoc Hung has a young painting force. At his hands, health and enthusiasm have become the spirit of outstanding paintings.
He prefers to use original local lacquer. It is because its color is deep, profound and vibrating to the bottom of the audience’s heart. Colors in Tran Ngoc Hung’s paintings glow with strong inspiration.
The painter shared that, fate is neccessary for an artist to meet and fall in love with lacquer. Sincere love and passion for beauty are also in need. The more lacquer works you paint, the more you like to paint, the more you love it each day, and to him, there is currently no material that can replace lacquer.
Do you see lava flows – flowing in underground veins, not knowing the lavaity that makes you think you’re standing somewhere inside the earth – or are you flying over satellites and looking down at a volcanic bed?! That can only be “Sediment” by Painting Tran Ngoc Hung. He said: “I go looking for the color palette of lacquer, like digging thousands of layers into the ground, not knowing when to arrive. But I believe, I have a faith in my lacquer palette.” Hung’s lacquer is the discovery of intrinsic emotions in the material itself.
