Following the expressionism and abstractionism, sticking with lacquer material, it is the same feature of four painters: Nguyen Van Chuyen, Mai Dac Linh, Diep Quy Hai and Tran Ngoc Hung. Their artworks converges to create the multicolor in the exhibition “Lacquer paintings- Expressionism and Abstractionism”, which is taking place at Lunet Art Galerie, 1st Thanh Nien Street, Hanoi.
Multicolor, rich of rhythm
A corner of the exhibition
Nearly 40 artworks, each painter has their own style, combined into an exhibition full of rhythm and the color of life. Falling in love with those artworks with marks of tradtional technique, respecting the material, the expression of lacquer, painter Mai Dac Linh brings those meditative works, bring its audiances back to an old Eastern region. An artwork reminds them of the enamel like bronze tinted by time. On that meditative background, they can still see the sparkled light full of colors. Attaching to poonah-paper before turning to lacquer material, painter Mai Dac Linh express: “Artist who has worked with Lacquer has a passion for it, since when creating, this material still brings surprise, making compelling effects. Unlike other materials, with lacquer, the artist could not anticipate completely”.
The “expressionism and abstractionism” style on lacquer material
Source: Lunet Art
20 years rearing a passion for lacquer art, painter Diep Quy Hai does not want to fall into the indistinguishable state, but want to enrich this material. He has created many unique, fascinating works, contributed to the development of Vietnamese lacquer arts, not only the number of works, art quality, but also particularly in steps of exploiting the unique conventional material. In this exhibition, artworks by Diep Quy Hai are colorful, fresh, eastern, however the shape is western, has the yin-yang, square-circle, uneven contrariety… Not express directly, depict a theme, through shaping, art conception, he brought emotions for the audiences to share.
In his artworks, painter Nguyen Van Chuyen paint light pieces on dark background. His abtraction unlike others, that means paint the invisible to visible, instead of turning the visible to invisible. Painter Tran Ngoc Hung is full of energy with large roundabout and sinuous stroke. He has faith with a new colors of Lacquer, therefore, his works are full of discovery, sometimes multicolor, sometimes only one color… Painter Tran Ngoc Hung express, his works are inspired of nature, from those sediment overtime. Being trained in a regular manner about lacquer, worked in restoring this material, he not only contacted, preserved precusors’ lacquer artworks, but also pursued on conventional material to satisfy himself, despite this route has lots of difficulties, likes he compared: “Other painters use other materials in a year can compare to a lacquer painter for a life-time”.
The advantage of Vietnamese arts
In 2019, Lunet Art Galerie impressed the critics, artists and specially art-loving community by organizing successfully the Lacquer exhibition entitled: “Son Ta Voc Viet”. For the outset of 2020, Lunet Art has put much effort to collect, curate, nearly 40 lacquer artworks followed the theme “expressionism and abstractionism”. The art director Lunate Phan: “These two exhibitions support each other for the art style on one material. The previous exhibition inclined to academy and classical art, this time is abtraction and expression, inform us that lacquer has full quality of an art material”.
Four painter take part in this exhibition are the professionals of expressionism and abstractionism, choose obvious path, has its own language. Regarding the professionals, the expression and abstraction style was born approximately a century ago in the West and is being promoted considerably. That is the modern style, unlike academic, classical style. And lacquer is a special conventional Vietnamese material, which is really Eastern. These artworks display the western expression and abstraction style in a harmonic, refined manner on a Eastern material.
“Lacquer art express the tradition, the interior, is the national advantage of Vietnam, because it is the cradle of this unique art material. With its own exhibitions, Lunet Art take the advantage of Vietnamese culture, as its orientation that all works must have cultural value. We desire to promote lacquer material in Vietnam, to help art-loving domestic and oversea people aware of it, since it is so beautiful, has many talented artists” – Mrs. Luneta shared. Artists around the world have always been concerning about a material to express. With Vietnam there already is lacquer material, we need to evolve, promote, increase its academy. In fact, Lacquer works has won national fine art prizes in Asia, Europe, America. But if we do it good, not only we will have artists that has name on the international artists’ list, but Vietnam will also earn its name on the international art map.
Thao Nguyen- People’s deputies newspaper
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