Unexpectedly 'meet' Van Gogh eating Saigon bread and taking pictures of Notre Dame Cathedral

There have been and will continue to be many exhibitions around the world inspired by the works or life of the famous painter Van Gogh. Just go online and type in the relevant phrase and you will see that there are many such exhibitions taking place today.

On the afternoon of May 13, at SiLart Station (139 Dinh Bo Linh, Ward 26, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City), the "unique" solo exhibition of Van Gogh's paintings in Saigon will be opened. Viewers will surely be extremely surprised and delighted by the images of the famous painter Van Gogh suddenly in Saigon, sitting and sipping a cheap sandwich and walking around the streets taking photos.

Van Gogh's solo exhibition in Saigon does not stop at taking inspiration or creating derivative works, but uses pop-art language/stylism to bring Van Gogh to Saigon, walking around the streets with him, living like a Saigonese.

Painters with their sensitivity always project their vision and soul to record the life around them in their paintings. Van Gogh did so with Nuenen, Paris, Arles, especially with Saint-Rémy, although in a short time. Even in the last 70 days of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, Van Gogh did not want to miss anything. That is why, although he was alive for only 37 years, in the last decade, he created more than 2,100 works, including about 860 oil paintings, most of which were painted in the last two years of his life.

From that thought, Tran Trung Linh appropriated Van Gogh's color palette, wore shoes like Van Gogh, looked at the same angle as Van Gogh... to look at Saigon in pop-art style.

In that perspective, Tran Trung Linh sees the faces that left their mark on Saigon, the legends left behind, such as Petrus Ky, like Co Ba Sai Gon; The lives of making a living in this city and the sensitive souls, they are present everywhere along the typical street corners, which are stories in themselves. Looking at it, talking to it, you will hear stories about Saigon. The hustle and bustle of the artist himself, when sketching, when sitting alone drinking coffee in the heart of this city...

In that perspective, Tran Trung Linh saw the faces that left their mark on Saigon and the legends they left behind, such as Petrus Ky and Co Ba Saigon.

Many lives struggle to make a living along typical street corners, which are stories in themselves.

Painter Tran Trung Linh lets Van Gogh walk beside life, look at life and clearly feel its shimmering beauty with an extremely sensitive soul. Look at it, love it, immerse in it with loneliness. Express it through words, through language, through letters; express it through tearing, immersing, violent brushstrokes. The body is here, the soul is here, all poured into the painting so that the loneliness will not stop surging.

No one is Van Gogh to understand how much loneliness tormented him. What remains is the idea of ​​bending low to fly high, the empathy and sharing of the pain of fellow human beings. What remains are the feelings in the letters, the brilliant nights, the golden wheat fields in the loneliness, the intense repression that cannot be mistaken.

Linh's artistic personality is strong, from expressionism to abstraction, but Linh's greatest personality and the biggest mark he creates is still pop-art with bold attacks and very contemporary ideas. If the relationship stops at the level of acquaintance with Linh, you will immediately feel Linh's affection for Van Gogh, as well as Vincent's influence on Linh. Linh's works such as Spray for Peace with the background of sunflowers and Van Gogh's starry night.

Tran Trung Linh said that during his time as an art student in the late 20th century, the days of copying famous artists' paintings as part of his livelihood brought him a feeling of boredom and disgust. Tran Trung Linh was a "boss" of Van Gogh's painting copying at that time, copying many paintings to the point of "memorizing them".

No one is Van Gogh to understand how much loneliness tormented him.

Viewers were surprised and… burst into laughter at the adorable work of Van Gogh “fat” in front of Notre Dame Cathedral (HCMC)

Or see him sitting peacefully and contentedly munching on a loaf of bread on the streets of Saigon.

But when he grew up, Tran Trung Linh had long since given up copying paintings, to gradually make a living with creative work. Looking back at those years of copying paintings until he was bored, it was almost a way of repeating the actions of the masters. Of course, to a certain extent, it would supplement his later creative journey a lot.

Now he has taken inspiration to create the story of Van Gogh in Saigon , by displaying 13 selected paintings from his recent works as an "apology" to the famous painter Van Gogh, for his reckless actions in his youth on the arduous path of making a living with a brush.

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