Hong Kong exhibition highlights vitality and beauty of Indochinese painting
An exhibition entitled “Scenes of This World: Modern Paintings from Singapore and Vietnam” at LGDR & Wei’s gallery in Hong Kong (China) is featuring over 30 works in oil, ink, and gouache by 11 artists from the two countries, who were recognised as modern masters of their respective nations.
Hanoi (VNA) – An exhibition entitled “Scenes of ThisWorld: Modern Paintings from Singapore and Vietnam” at LGDR & Wei’s gallery in Hong Kong (China) is featuring over 30 works in oil, ink, andgouache by 11 artists from the two countries, who were recognised as modernmasters of their respective nations.
The exhibition offers a chance for viewers to examine thedefining styles of a generation of transnational artists that came of age inthe 1930s and were collectively shaped by cosmopolitanism.
A publication introducing the exhibition said that there are six Vietnamese amongthe artists whose paintings are displayed at the exhibition, namely Le Pho, MaiTrung Thu, Vu Cao Dam, Nguyen Phan Chanh, Nguyen Gia Tri and Nguyen Trung.
Almost of them were trained in the Indochina School of Fine Arts, which teachesfine arts programmes along with painting techniques associated with Vietnameseart materials, including silk and lacquer - part of an effort to create atypical art of Vietnam.
The exhibition contributes to proving the vitality andbeauty of Indochinese painting and Vietnamese painting in particular.
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Curator Karin G.Oen, who was mainly responsible for selectingpaintings for the exhibition, said that the displayed paintings are mostlyborrowed from the Shanghai art investment fund or private collections of Chinesecollectors./.
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At the exhibition (Photo: //www.sggp.org.vn/) 
