Enigma is to painting what suspense is to cinema

Truc-Anh

Enigma is to painting what suspense is to cinema, 201554.4 x 39.6cm4200 USD
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acrylic on paperGalerie Quynh
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This surreal black and white photograph features an abstract, organic composition with striking contrasts and textures. Prominent elements include jagged, crystalline structures resembling a frozen, otherworldly entity. The overall impression is one of dynamic movement and a sense of the primal or primordial. The artist's use of chiaroscuro and the dramatic interplay of light and shadow heighten the work's enigmatic, almost haunting quality. Without identifying any specific individuals, the image evokes a mysterious, primordial force that transcends the human realm, inviting the viewer to ponder the work's deeper, symbolic significance. ...

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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. ...

Truc-Anh: Artworks
Striptease
Truc-AnhStriptease, 20154800 USD
Untitled
Truc-AnhUntitled, 20155200 USD
The Seer
Truc-AnhThe Seer, 20154800 USD
Enigma is to painting what suspense is to cinema
Truc-AnhEnigma is to painting what suspense is to cinema, 20154200 USD
The Lowest
Truc-AnhThe Lowest, 2015Price on Request
Shiam
Truc-AnhShiam, 20155600 USD
Last Breather, First Breather
Truc-AnhLast Breather, First Breather, 201716000 USD
Sharingan Dosatsugan (eye of insight) 
Truc-AnhSharingan Dosatsugan (eye of insight) , 20179000 USD
The Psychopomp
Truc-AnhThe Psychopomp, 20174500 USD
(21) The Helper
Truc-Anh(21) The Helper, 2018Price on Request
The God of Doubt
Truc-AnhThe God of Doubt, 201814000 USD
The God of Infinite Loneliness
Truc-AnhThe God of Infinite Loneliness, 2018Price on Request
The Divided 
Truc-AnhThe Divided , 2018Price on Request
Le miroir de la Princesse
Truc-AnhLe miroir de la Princesse, 2018900 USD
Shaka and The Useless Armor
Truc-AnhShaka and The Useless Armor, 2018900 USD
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. ...