Blooming before spring

Dang Phan Lac Viet's works revolve around simple themes: it could be the feeling of watching an opera on YouTube that artists broadcast for free to everyone; or the lingering nostalgia for Da Lat when being confined to an apartment in Saigon during the Covid-19 pandemic; images of relatives and friends that the author has asked permission to redraw in his own way, along with images of people and places that he has lived and passed through, leaving an impression: Da Lat, Saigon, Hanoi...

Artist Dang Phan Lac Viet and works introduced at the exhibition

"I paint as if hypnotized... Spring, summer, autumn, winter and then spring again. The cycle of nature repeats itself: Winter is cold, trees shed their leaves, animals hibernate, life is quiet and hidden. Spring comes, all things awaken after a long sleep. Trees sprout, flowers bloom. After much contemplation and practice, I know that the time has come for me to blossom to share spring with everyone, every home," the artist confided.

Dang Phan Lac Viet (born in 1974) comes from a family with a father who is a painter and sculptor. He grew up in Da Lat with houses hidden in green pine hills. Living in an artistic environment since childhood, he became familiar with colors very early. For him, drawing is his breath, the way he expresses his feelings about the world and people around him.

Artist Dang Phan Lac Viet and works introduced at the exhibition

Majoring in architecture at the University of Architecture in Ho Chi Minh City (1992 - 1997), Dang Phan Lac Viet continued to nurture and develop his passion for art through many group exhibitions in Da Lat and Saigon in the program Pho Ben Doi. In 2022, he won first prize in the painting competition of beautiful and poetic Poland. Two years later, his paintings were successfully auctioned in a charity fundraising program for poor children in Binh Dinh province.

Until 2023, the artist suffered a serious illness. "That was also an experience that I approached and managed to recreate in my paintings. Thanks to the love, care, and attention of my family and everyone, I was able to have an exhibition as I wished and I am very happy that it satisfied the viewers," Dang Phan Lac Viet expressed.

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