Belonging to the generation of professional sculptors, sculptor Hoang Tuong Minh has entered his 60s, mature in his profession and has enough time to consider launching his first solo exhibition, as a brief introduction to his artistic journey of over 30 years.
Hoang Tuong Minh's exhibition "Back Pressure" displays over 20 sculptures made of stone and metal.
An artistic story with the main theme of force and pressure with two different artistic language and visual thinking streams, numbered and named suggestively about the content.
In terms of artistic language, the Source is notable for its variations of the reproductive organs in the form of solid to hollow metal blocks, exaggeration, generalization, and symbolism.
Back Pressure is a selection of works from Hoang Tuong Minh's most recent creative period.
Born in 1962 in Tuyen Quang, after graduating from Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts in 1990, Hoang Tuong Minh chose to settle down and work in Ho Chi Minh City. He has participated in about 30 joint sculpture exhibitions and more than 10 professional sculpture camps in Vietnam and internationally.
Art researcher Vu Ngoc Thuyen said about the exhibition of sculptor Hoang Tuong Minh: "The pressure to create is to focus on ideas, approach social issues and universal contemporary art language, the artist's personal mark - understood according to the concept of individual visual style is relegated to secondary position, so the work can be suitable for all social spaces, not necessarily associated with specific contexts of the country or region".
Despite his success in applied sculpture, regular professional activities since early 1990 (after graduating from Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts), and being one of the core artists of the Saigon - Hanoi sculpture group, Hoang Tuong Minh still holds solo exhibitions to share his creations with the art community and the public.
Hoang Tuong Minh's love for history, especially ancient Vietnamese history
For most artists, organizing a solo exhibition is an important part of professionalism and more or less a psychological pressure - a positive pressure, necessary for every artistic journey. The world-famous artist Mark Rothko once said: "Introducing your work to the world is a bold, reckless act", a saying that implies the pressure created from both sides: the artist - the creator and the public - the person facing that creation.
It is known that Reverse Pressure is a selection of works from Hoang Tuong Minh's most recent creative period. It is an open direction and is expected to continue to be exploited by him. In addition, in the current context, this will also be the approach of many young artists, who will join Hoang Tuong Minh in creating diverse nuances for Vietnamese sculpture.
Sculptor Hoang Tuong Minh
After graduating from Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts in 1990, Hoang Tuong Minh chose Ho Chi Minh City to settle down and work.
The exhibition Reverse Pressure by Hoang Tuong Minh displays over 20 sculptures made of stone and metal, more than 10 sketches he has made over many years, will be an artistic story with the main theme of force/pressure. These are also two different lines of artistic language and visual thinking, numbered and named suggestively about the content as Source and Pressure .
The source is a series of works with a geometric language somewhat similar to the stone sculptures that Hoang Tuong Minh once performed and displayed outdoors in several provinces and cities. Their content revolves around the major themes of femininity and fertility, suggesting grand narratives of national and religious origins.
In terms of artistic language, Nguon is notable for its variations of the reproductive organs in the form of metal blocks from solid to hollow, exaggeration, generalization and symbolization towards the glorifying form like miniature temples, which prove to be suitable for the creative psychology based on traditional identity as well as Hoang Tuong Minh's love for history, especially ancient Vietnamese history.
The Pressure series of works does not seek to express the forms of volume in space in the mainstream way of traditional sculpture, they blend minimalist language and emphasize visual psychology in a way that challenges perceptual experience to thereby evoke questions about opposites such as hard/soft, heavy/light and the inherent skeptical thinking about the impossible/possible.
The Pressure series does not seek expressive forms of volume in space in the dominant manner of traditional sculpture.
The works blend minimalist language and emphasize visual psychology in a way that challenges perceptual experience, thereby provoking questions about opposites such as hard/soft, heavy/light, and the inherently skeptical thinking about the impossible/possible.
Challenging the perceptual experience of material is Hoang Tuong Minh's shaping operation, he "twists" the slabs of slate, large metal bricks, transforming them from solid material - from a symbol of a solid foundation into a material that "seems easy to manipulate". He intervenes, creating invisible openings in violent symbols such as barbed wire, iron chains, steel pipes at a level just enough to create a questioning psychology, pushing the "pressure" of interpretation in the opposite direction - towards the viewer.
The solo sculpture exhibition Reverse Pressure by sculptor Hoang Tuong Minh (taking place from May 12 to May 17 at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association) will create a space for both visual art enjoyment and the ability to interact with thinking. And Reverse Pressure will be a two-way push between the creator and the public through the impressive works of the talented artist Hoang Tuong Minh.
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