Dinh Quan exhibits abstract lacquer paintings

Veteran artist Dinh Quan organizes the lacquer painting exhibition "Thien Khai" - inspired by the universe.

The event marked Dinh Quan 's return after more than 10 years, taking place from May 27 to June 5 at a gallery in District 1. Still pursuing the abstract lacquer painting genre, the artist chose a new creative theme - the origin of the universe.

The exhibition features nearly 40 paintings with a variety of colors and shapes. To express the concept of the universe and human life, he chose two basic elements: light and darkness. He named the event Genesis , inspired by the title of the first chapter of the Old Testament.

According to artist and art critic Nguyen Quan, this collection continues the traditional lacquer art but has escaped the splendid golden effect to pursue its own way of expression. "It can be urgent and explosive like De Kooning, messy and graceful like Jackson Pollock or smoldering and passionate and deep, enchanting like Mark Rothko," Nguyen Quan commented.

Curator David Willis assessed that the author had made a major change in his artistic style. According to him, Revelation not only contains purely physical images such as the Big Bang, the cosmic egg, or active neurons in the human brain, but also represents a fusion between Eastern and Western philosophy.

Painter Dinh Quan was born in Hai Phong in 1964, studied lacquer painting and graduated from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in 1990. In more than 30 years of his career, he has organized international exhibitions in 15 countries around the world, such as China, Japan, France, Singapore, and the United States. For a long time, the main theme in Dinh Quan's paintings was the image of women.

His works are in the collections of the Singapore Art Museum, the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and the National Art Gallery of Malaysia. He was one of 20 Vietnamese artists featured in the exhibition Vietnamese Lacquer Painting: A New Era at the Oakland Exhibition Center (California, USA) in 2000.

The exhibition is curated by David Willis, an art critic from New York (USA), an expert on Southeast Asian contemporary art. Born in 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland, he received a BA in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Columbia University (USA), and an MA in Art Criticism and Essays from the School of Visual Arts. He writes and curates for magazines and galleries around the world.

(According to vnexpress.net)

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