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25 Years of Freedom – A Vietnamese Gallery’s Vision
Art Radar on 1 August 2014. From the postwar to Vietnam’s economic boom, Tu Do Gallery has been running successfully for a quarter of a...
cnualart
Aug 11, 20141 min read
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Vietnam’s 2013 art scene ends with a bang: Tiffany Chung
This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, January 2014, p.16. In Vietnam, it is rare to see exhibitions of the most prominent...
cnualart
Jan 7, 20143 min read
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Artist Himiko Nguyen comes back from the dark.
This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, December 2013, pp. 98-99. [ezcol_2fifth] [/ezcol_2fifth] [ezcol_3fifth_end] ‘What...
cnualart
Dec 10, 20135 min read
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Ha-ha! A graffiti artist’s magical trip to Saigon
This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, December 2013, p.16. [ezcol_1half] How do you explain your job to people? In a...
cnualart
Dec 10, 20132 min read
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Drawing I’m working on: The Ghost of Cho Van Thanh
I make slow art because I like to explore each idea with lots of documentation and different materials. But this type of labourious...
cnualart
Apr 1, 20131 min read
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Digger Party!
These diggers in Saigon look like they are all fresh and ready for a group bash. They are literally going to be ‘tearing down the house’!...
cnualart
Mar 4, 20131 min read
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Found Object + Ready Made
Accidental imitation of a Duchamp ready made as an impromptu urban installation. I found this image in Saigon, where everything is the...
cnualart
Feb 19, 20131 min read
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Happy Year of the Snake!
Today Vietnam celebrates the Chinese New Year, and Saigon, the biggest city, is the only place where I have seen red hearts pop out of...
cnualart
Feb 10, 20131 min read
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The Gold Digger Ate my Homework
This little painting is my donation to the Arts For Mobility art auction that will take place this Saturday in the Saigon Opera House....
cnualart
Nov 15, 20121 min read
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Biodiversity as a flattened cage – the drawings of Johanna Calle
Colombian artist Johanna Calle just opened her exhibition of material-happy drawings in San Art, Saigon, where I spoke to her before she...
cnualart
Sep 14, 20123 min read
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Art for wheelchairs
In December 2011, I helped organise an art auction at the Saigon Opera as part of the Arts For Mobility annual event. Â I was delighted...
cnualart
Jul 17, 20121 min read
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Red scars and blue dust. Deodorant-free installation art.
The world’s landfills have been dusted with the discarded union jacks that briefly saluted the Queen of England’s jubilee last fortnight....
cnualart
Jun 25, 20123 min read
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The last hand-painted sign in Saigon
Sometime in my first year of living in Saigon I came across a key-cutter at work at his small metal cart on a pavement. He’d borrowed...
cnualart
Apr 18, 20123 min read
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Ironies of ‘the female condition’
Below are my digital drawings currently on show in Cúnhouse Lounge. I like seeing and capturing funny anecdotes. The poem and...
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Mar 8, 20121 min read
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3D sketchbook: an archive of the artist’s inspiration
Zerostation is a Saigon-based arts organisation that aims to connect Vietnamese and international art practitioners. It regularly holds...
cnualart
Feb 25, 20122 min read
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Arts For Mobility at Saigon Opera House
Yesterday an annual art exhibition and silent auction helped raise money to give disabled people in Vietnam a wheelchair. Arts For...
cnualart
Dec 4, 20112 min read
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DomestiCity: visual research on domestic activities in dense urban areas
This photo essay was featured on Urban Asia Week, on ThisBigCity, a sustainable urbanism project. I live in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest...
cnualart
Oct 31, 20113 min read
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The wax sculptures by La Huy
Wonderful surprise to visit HCMC’s Cactus gallery on the closing day of this exhibition, and to find that it is their best exhibition to...
cnualart
Oct 22, 20111 min read
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Why does Vietnam not do well in the visual arts? (part 2)
Read part 1 here My personal impression is that Vietnam, a dynamic nation with a wide multicultural heritage, currently shows little...
cnualart
Oct 16, 20115 min read
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The face of Vietnamese contemporary art: The DOGMA self-portrait award
This is the full version of the article published in pages 46-47 of issue 42 of Asia Life magazine in September 2011. [ezcol_2fifth] How...
cnualart
Aug 31, 20114 min read
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THE MADWOMAN, a poem by Hoang Hung
THE MADWOMAN Carrying a broken stick on her head she walks and sings Evening comes gradually at the end of the street She walks and...
cnualart
Jan 25, 20161 min read
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Saigon’s artworld – sketches in ‘Masque & Spectacle’
The July 2015 issue of literary and arts journal Masque and Spectacle is devoted to Vietnam, and features a few of my sketches done...
cnualart
Jun 6, 20151 min read
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