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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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The art of freedom
Tu Do (pronounced tuyo), Vietnamese for freedom, is the name of the first art gallery in South Vietnam. It opened in the newly named Ho...
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Dec 10, 20112 min read
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The art of freedom
Tu Do (pronounced tuyo), Vietnamese for freedom, is the name of the first art gallery in South Vietnam. It opened in the newly named Ho...
cnualart
Dec 10, 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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Art in Vietnam: censorship and traditional lacquer painting
This is my first finished lacquer painting, titled ‘The F word’. I started making it at the beginning of August 2011, and found the...
cnualart
Aug 28, 20111 min read
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Vietnamese lacquer painting: materials used.
I’ve now lived in Vietnam for over a year! The best thing is that I started taking lessons to learn the traditional lacquer painting...
cnualart
Aug 18, 20111 min read
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Good bye, Cho Van Tan
Long, sad, disappointing story. The beautiful old and disused market, Cho Van Thanh, that I passed by on my way to work each day has been...
cnualart
Jul 5, 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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‘Flatlands’: tech-collages by Tomas Vu-Daniel
This exhibition review was originally written for The Word HCMC magazine, and published in June 2011. This is the unedited version:...
cnualart
Jun 6, 20113 min read
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How to make art with someone else’s artist books
[wpcol_1quarter id=”” class=”” style=””] [/wpcol_1quarter] [wpcol_3quarter_end id=”” class=”” style=””] Vietnam was the first country...
cnualart
Apr 12, 20113 min read
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Hoang Tram’s art retrospective
The drawings are all very well executed, but it’s the variety of people and faces that engages the eye more than technical precision....
cnualart
Nov 21, 20101 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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