The God of Doubt

Truc-Anh

The God of Doubt, 2018210 x 140cmSign in to view price
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oil pastel, acrylic on canvasGalerie Quynh
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This abstract artwork features a striking composition of intersecting, sinuous lines in a monochromatic palette. The intricate web of white lines against the dark background creates a dynamic, almost organic visual rhythm. The overlapping lines and curves suggest a sense of movement and energy, reminiscent of natural forms like feathers or plant tendrils. The artist's focus on line, shape, and the interplay of positive and negative space reflects a minimalist, conceptual approach characteristic of contemporary abstract art. This piece likely aims to explore themes of interconnectedness, the fluidity of form, and the beauty inherent in simplicity. ...

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