Lacquer by Vietnamese painter of Vietnam painting art gallery-khuongtd1-73Tran Dinh Khuong

ABOUT LISTED PAINTINGS:

Medium: Lacquer painting

Artist: Tran Dinh Khuong

Code painting: khuongtd1-73

Size unframed: (40x90) cm

Biography:

1972 Born in Hanoi

1995 Graduated from Hanoi Industrial Fine Art College

Member of the Viet Nam Fine Art Association

Member of the young Artist Club Vietnam Fine Art Association

Exhibitions 1995, 1998, 2003 Hanoi Fine Art Exhibitions

2001, 2005 The Club of young Vietnam Artist, exhibitions at Exhibition House Hanoi

2000 Vietnam Fine Art Exhibition in Singapore

2000, 2001 Joint Exhibition in China

2003 Joint Exhibition at Dragon gallery

2003 Solo Exhibition of Lacquer " My Mother Land" at Exhibition House Hanoi

2003 Exhibition the club of young Vietnamese Artists "Doi Dien" at Exhibition House

2006 Participation in Art Auction of Operation Smile in HCM

2006 Solo Exhibitions of Lacquer "The Memories of Childhood" at Park Hyatt Saigon organize by Ben Thanh Art & Frame and Galerie Nguyen

Collection Private collection inside and outside Vietnam

Private collection of "Maison du droit Vietnam - Francaise"

Exhibition at "Maison du droit Vietnam - Francaise"

Private collection of Francophonie

Tran Dinh Khuong Artist

My childhood is streaked with memories of the countryside. Perhaps I am so lucky with my fifteen years of hearing, contemplating, meditating and creative work.

My recent pictures seem to be a small path leading me back to my childhood and probably to other people’s as well.

Feelings and emotions come to me in a flash, I gather them up, spread them out and stir them as swiftly as their sudden, unexpected arrival. I like to remain in control of the spontaneous streaks that spill, the tight pumicing strokes, the motion in every fibre of the egg shells and also to preserve intact the naivety, plainness and freshness of the personages in my pictures.

For me, the medium is vital to an artist, just like the half of his life. So I must have a perfect knowledge of it and try to be in possession of its secret so as to better realize my artistic work.

Art sets very high standards but how to meet its requirements depends on the choice of an individual artist.For my part, feelings and emotions simply emerge from life.In a man’s existence,childhood is the years.In which we receive the largest part of feelings and emotions, thus let us preserve them.And I beg to offer what I have created to art lovers.

THE VILLAGE DREAMER

Not trained art critic, I am a seasoned lover of beauty.And in Tran Dinh Khuong’s magnificent oils on lacquer, I found a perfect rationale for a lifetime of aesthetic pursuit.

Viewing this exhibit is to repeat Alice’s trip through her looking glass into a world of the author’s imagination. In carroll’s novel, “The adventures of Alice in Wonderland,”the young protagonist wanders through a milieu circumscribed by unique characters, some frightening, some helpful, at least to the author himself.

Like Alice, we find in Tran Dinh Khuong’s work a distinctive world, this time amicrocosm of Vietnamese village life in which young people fish and wash dishes in the river, children play games, buffaloes romp, and rain falls softly on forest leaves. Using the artist’s imagination and artistic gifts as our guide, we can travel with Tran Dinh Khuong to the village and rediscover the joy of childhood in which every experience is new, fresh and exciting.

There have been other villages in literature and art, but unlike Alice’s “village” of strange characters, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and the smilling Cheshire Cat, or artist Marc Chagall’s Russian village where bridal couples float in the air and clowns and roosters perform for the viewer, Khuong’s village is calm, peaceful and idyllic. Its milieu is bucolic and its colors, reflecting the green of the fields and the deep blue of the rivers, invite the viewer to escape with the artist into a fantasia of pleasure and oblivion, the secret world of the child where responsibilities are few and enchanment reigns.

Tran Dinh Khuong accomplishes this feat through his artist skills, the delicate and complex technique of applying oil on lacquer, and his capacity to summon the past and give it a universal vision that resonates with every person who has ever experienced the joy-even if momentary-of childhood.

However, Tran Dinh Khuong knows from adult experience that the world of the child is temporary and fleeting. In the exhibit’s painting of a buffalo and a child with a kite, certain to be come one day a masterpiece of technique and imagination, the artist renders the soul of the Vietnamese in a single stroke. In the painting, Khuong splits the personality of the Vietnamese people in two: in the upper left hand corner, the gentle child, the village dreamer, twisted in the tail of his kite, whirling upside down in the sky-or is it the universe – gifted, aristis, playful, without a care. And in the lower right hand corner of the painting, a buffalo, ancient symbol of labor and friendship,, the usually affectionate bufflalo now an angry one, his eye staring fiercely at you, the viewer, communicating his fury, his powerful bulk suggesting conquest over all his enemies.

The artist has made a statement that transports us far from the peaceful village of fishing children, endless games and serenity. He draws upon history to tell us that this world reflects only one half of the Vietnamese soul, one half of its experience. Throughout history, at war and under occupation, the Vietnamese have also had to defend with their blood an extraordinary universe, grounded in maternal love and lullabies, extended family and loyal friends, gentle buffaloes, songs and games.

The artist is mindful that to present only the one side of the Vietnamese personality is to deprive it of its depth and strength, its tragedy and its heroism, its greatness and its sorrow.

Like Lewis Carroll and Marc Chagall before him, Tran Dinh Khuong’s artistic vision is not one dimensional. His paintings span the stages of life, the nature of work and relationships, peace and war. He is an urban painter, preoccupied with the pastoral tradition of his youth, perhaps, as he says, “…from my visits to the countryside with my father and brother when I was six…”

His preoccupation is our gift and Khuong found his medium to express it in lacquer, “…something that reflects the Vietnamese soul and identity the depth and intricacies of Vietnamese people. I want to master it at any cost.”

Born in 1972 and graduated from the Hanoi Institute of Industrial Arts in 1995, Tran Dinh Khuong quickly emerged as an artist to watch in the Asian Art Scene. He has exhibited widely and his works grace collections across continents.

He is only 34 years of age.

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