(21) The Helper

Truc-Anh

(21) The Helper, 2018128 x 88.5cmSign in to view price
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pencil, acrylic on canvasGalerie Quynh
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This abstract painting features a striking combination of vibrant colors and organic shapes. The composition is dominated by undulating lines and gestural brushstrokes that create a sense of movement and fluidity, evoking a dreamlike, aquatic landscape. Shades of blue, purple, and turquoise blend seamlessly, while delicate white accents add a sense of lightness and ethereality. The overall style suggests an expressionistic approach, with the artist's personal interpretation of the natural world conveyed through bold, intuitive mark-making. This work likely reflects the artist's desire to capture the transient, ephemeral nature of the subject matter, inviting the viewer to explore the boundless realms of the imagination. ...

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Truc-Anh
Artist
Truc-Anh
B.1983, French/Vietnamese

“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. ...

Galerie Quynh
Gallery
Galerie Quynh
Ho Chi Minh City

Recognized as Vietnam’s leading contemporary art gallery, Galerie Quynh has been promoting contemporary art practice in the country for over two decades. The gallery is known internationally for its consistently focused programming and educational initiatives. Working with a select group of emerging, mid-career and established Vietnamese artists, the gallery also exhibits the work of distinguished artists from around the world. In keeping with its mission to develop a sustainable ecosystem for the arts in Vietnam, the gallery collaborates with artists, curators, museums and art spaces locally and internationally to organize talks and lectures as well as to produce publications in English and Vietnamese. In May 2014 the gallery founded the not-for-profit educational initiative Sao La directed by artists Tung Mai and Nguyen Kim To Lan. Sao La has since evolved into an independent artist collective spearheaded by To Lan and Dalat-based artist Nguyen Duc Dat. In summer 2020 with support from the Goethe-Institut, the gallery launched the not-for-profit CáRô, an educational initiative that provides art education for students aged 13 – 18 who show demonstrative interest in the arts. ...

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