Positives in Life
Vietnamese artist La Nhu Lan (b.1975), a lecturer at the Culture and Art College and Hong Bang University in Ho Chi Minh City, will have a solo show, entitled Unconcentration, at the city’s Phuong Mai Art Gallery in November 2010.
Lan, whose father was also an artist, began to paint as a child. As he has developed, his art has become abstract and symbolic. Lan has been inspried by many artists, but as he notes, “ I liked several artists and I was affected by some of them, especially Picasso. I realy like the way he worked.[But] I found inspriration from my father and he’s my consultant in everything. I like watching him work.”
To make a difference as an artist Lan sayss that it is necessary for artists to be honest with themselves, and in that way one’s work will be different. He feels that it is important to “love the truth” and to reject “deceitfulness.”
Lan says that he is trying to communicate the possitive in life, and that his medium can change if he changes. “My feelings about life are varied and I want these to be seen in my work. But I really want people to look at good side of life,” says Lan. “For me, oil paint and abstraction help me to transfer my feelings in full. But I will change them if these are no longer suitable.”
La Nhu Lan, Moment at 0h03,
2010, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm.
La Nhu Lan, Moment at 1h45,
2010, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm.
At the same gallery, Robert Bouchin (Mihagui), Who has had three earlier shows in Ho Chi Minh City, will show his works in December.
“The personality of Robert Mihagui has many sides, just like the variety of colours on his palette of painter. There are few differences between the man and the artist, in real life as well as on his paintings, we find the same dominating characteristics, the spontaneity and the instinctive gesture,” Jacques Blanchard has written. “Each person has a different reading of Robert’s works. And in the contracsted light of his double culture, will see alternatively the peace of mind of the soft landscapes of Touraine in France and the grand beauty of the North Vietnam panoramas of his early childhood.
“The riot of color provokes a patchword of feelings which go from dazzling joy to a certain, very Vietnamese, melancholy giving to the whole of his works a strength and a charm of which we do not grow tired.”
Robert Bouchin (Mihagui),Homeland color 20, oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm.
Robert Bouchin (Mihagui), Homeland color 3, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm.
From Asian Art News.
