Truc-Anh

Truc-Anh

BornNationalityBased In
1983French/VietnameseParis, Ho Chi Minh City
Biography

“Painting is an absolute medium to think about the world and also to read and compare human history through [various] ages, styles and convictions. I try to begin a painting as if it was the first one. I want to free my mind of known techniques, methods and habits.” Distinctly urban, dynamic and contemplative, Truc-Anh is a Vietnamese-French artist who works in a range of media that includes photography, video, drawing, sculpture and performance. Recently, he has been focusing considerable attention to the medium of painting wishing to challenge our modern condition of passive viewing. Through his paintings, Truc-Anh encourages viewers to actively engage, pause and ponder what is made visible through careful layers of applied pigments. Truc-Anh’s paintings are not derivative of everyday reality, but offer the potential to create unexplored, unstable worlds that invite further meditation. His works explore the duality of the image, and the possibilities of belief and contradiction that lie therein. Employing mechanisms of destabilization, more specifically the coupling of the material with the immaterial, of paint and fiction, Truc-Anh presents a fractured world in his work. Drawing upon a range of references from art history to contemporary culture, the presumed direct relationship between the viewer and the work betrays a tenuous hold. ...

Selected Artworks
(21) The Helper
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(21) The Helper, 2018
128 x 88.5cm
The God of Infinite Loneliness
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The God of Infinite Loneliness, 2018
210 x 140cm
The Divided 
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The Divided , 2018
148 x 78cm
Striptease
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Striptease, 2015
70 x 51cm
Untitled
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Untitled, 2015
77.4 x 51.9cm
The Seer
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The Seer, 2015
70 x 50cm
Enigma is to painting what suspense is to cinema
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Enigma is to painting what suspense is to cinema, 2015
54.4 x 39.6cm
The Lowest
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The Lowest, 2015
79 x 59.1cm
Shiam
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Shiam, 2015
79 x 59cm
Last Breather, First Breather
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Last Breather, First Breather, 2017
220 x 148cm
Sharingan Dosatsugan (eye of insight) 
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Sharingan Dosatsugan (eye of insight) , 2017
90 x 150 x 150cm
The Psychopomp
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The Psychopomp, 2017
176 x 40 x 36cm
The God of Doubt
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The God of Doubt, 2018
210 x 140cm
Le miroir de la Princesse
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Le miroir de la Princesse, 2018
21 x 13.5cm
Shaka and The Useless Armor
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Shaka and The Useless Armor, 2018
21 x 13.5cm
Gallery Representation
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