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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...
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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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How to save a village and age more rapidly
This exhibition review was published in the August 2013 issue of Word Vietnam magazine. Artist Le Hien Minh’s use of Vietnamese dó paper...
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Aug 7, 20132 min read
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Art trends at Hong Kong Art Basel 2013
After 5 years of rapid growth the Hong Kong Art Fair this year was rebranded Hong Kong Art Basel. The space is the same, but the price of...
cnualart
Jun 4, 20132 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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Three weekend trilogy – art from the beach
[singlepic id=414 w=320 h=240 float=left]Maintaining an art practice alongside a regular job is all the harder if you live in an exciting...
cnualart
Jun 29, 20112 min read
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Public Space in the Singapore Art Biennale 2011
This article was originally written for Sustainable Urbanism site ThisBigCity.net [ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] For the...
cnualart
Apr 22, 20114 min read
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Art as teleportation via the internet
I’ve recently moved from London to Saigon, and last night I phoned my grandmother to let her know all is well here. When I told her I was...
cnualart
Aug 27, 20102 min read
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Joana Vasconcelos: hand crocheting and kinetic sculptures.
Joana Vasconcelos‘ exhibition in Haunch of Venison a couple of weeks ago, and I wasn’t planning to write about it because a) I’m busy...
cnualart
Aug 5, 20101 min read
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Thai Artists
There’s nothing like a good dose of culture shock to creativize one’s zest for life. Around the time of the great tsunami, I lived in...
cnualart
Jul 23, 20102 min read
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The skin of art spaces
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has exposed the art viscera inside the Hayward gallery, London. I won’t digress much talking about the...
cnualart
Jul 19, 20101 min read
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Made In – Oil without paint
[singlepic id=199 w=320 h=240 float=left]Excited about being in Birmingham on a nice sunny day, I dashed to Ikon gallery first, and dove...
cnualart
Jun 26, 20102 min read
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Art/War
I visited Manchester’s Cornerhouse and Birmingham’s Ikon gallery in the same week, and was set on fire with neurological sparks seeing...
cnualart
Jun 14, 20102 min read
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Sculpture + 2D
Madder139 gallery, and I was pleasantly intrigued by the Cervantian look of the man, but mostly attracted to the 2D image collaged over...
cnualart
Jun 8, 20101 min read
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The Creative Compass
Strolling up to the Serpentine Gallery on a fine London morning I happened upon a wonderful little exhibition in the Royal Geographical...
cnualart
May 24, 20102 min read
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Eco art
Currently, Madrid’s Casa de America presents a group exhibition of Spanish and Latin American artists, ‘Mientras sea posible’. The brief...
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Apr 13, 20103 min read
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Sutra and Antony Gormley
What I can’t quite work out is how a visual artist, Antony Gormley, designs the set for something like this. I can understand that a...
cnualart
Mar 18, 20102 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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