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24/9/2004

La Symphonie des Couleurs

Alliance Francaise de Singapour, Singapore

Painting Exhibition from Vietnam

Opening Date: Monday, 27 September 2004 @ 7pm

The much-anticipated Vietnamese painting exhibition is back once again. Presented by Lotus Gallery (based in Ho Chi Minh City) and Alliance Française de Singapour, La Symphonie des Couleurs is a display of richness in Vietnamese art and culture.

This yearly-event consists of a selection of oil paintings on silk and rice paper, as well as lacquers, by seven Vietnamese painters Do Xuan Doan, Truong Dinh Hao, Luong Dung, Duong Ngoc Son, Van Hai, Trong Tuong, and Khanh Toan. La Symphonie des Couleurs aims to bring the luminious colours and warmth of Vietnam to Singapore.

There will be a presentation on lacquer technique and painting on rice paper demonstration, and get your own charcoal portrait drawn by a famous Vietnamese painter. Please log on to http://www.alliancefrancaise.org.sg for more information.
Also on the highlight, a book launch will take place alongside with this exhibition. One of the feature books includes autobiography “Ao Dai – My War, My Country, My Vietnam” by Xuan Phuong, also the owner of Lotus Gallery, and Danièle Marzingarbe. Get your copy of this autobiography at Alliance Française and autographed during the book launch on 12 October 2004.

LA SYMPHONIE DES COULEURS – LOTUS GALLERY

The history of Vietnamese painting is also the history of the meeting of East and West. The opening of the School of Fine Arts of Indochina, established in Hanoi in 1923 under the direction of the French painter, Victor Tardieu, opened the door to an artistic development that would overcome the times and the sad wars, and give birth to the great masters of Vietnamese painting.

Oil paintings on silk or rice paper and lacquers will be exhibited in the SG Private Banking Gallery of the Alliance Française de Singapour from September to October 2004 by the Vietnamese painters: Do Xuan Doan, Truong Dinh Hao, Luong Dung, Duong Ngoc Son, Van Hai, Trong Tuong (present) and Khanh Toan (present). These art works, with linear and 3-dimensional perspective, and the imitation of nature, will discuss this “transplanting” attained between the conventional and the symbolic spirit, without concerning themselves with the approach of the reality of Far Eastern art and Western aesthetics. We will discover works impregnated by plastic processes used by modern Western painters who concentrate on description with a variety of red, yellow and luminous green tones, representing the beautiful harvests – the eternal spirit that is the reason for existence in Vietnamese villages, street corners, the symphony of colours of the flowers of the 4 seasons in the age-old town of Hanoi.

The technique of the paintings on silk by the painter Pham Hoang Anh, graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts of Hue, former royal capital of Vietnam, retains an almost unreal and nostalgic charm of the past thanks to a supple, silky and vapourous material, which allows the artist to “dream" with his paint strokes about the eternal themes of Beauty and Music… The weave of the silk is perceptible thanks to a continuous washing of superimposed layers of paint that create an impression of depth, both delicate and light, with more or less shaded tones.

Lacquer is a purely Vietnamese form of artistic expression. For several centuries, just as in Japan or in China, lacquer in Vietnam was only used for the decoration of columns of imperial palaces, statues of Buddha or folding screens. It was only in 1934 that the French painter, Inguiberty, opened a lacquer workshop in Vietnam.

Following that, Alix Aimée and Evariste Jonchère, painters and leaders of the School of Fine Arts of Indochina, were able to multiply their research in the best possible conditions. All these efforts to revive a traditional art allowed the first Vietnamese painters such as Nguyen Gia Tri, Le Pho and Nguyen Cao Dam, who came out of the first year in 1936, as well as future generations of the 21st century, to enrich the colour palette of their panels with the use of gold or silver leaves, eggshells, red earth ochre of Yunan, etc. The sanding down and the polishing, which helped to reflect various shades, allowed them to melt one into another and to give a special depth, unknown up till then in lacquer works.

A poet living in France, Mrs Venus Khouzy-Grata, wrote:
... The mountain can easily leave
on condition of leaving his shadow behind
necessary to delimit the borders of the wind...

With all my heart, I wish that the paintings in this exhibition are able to define the limits our border and, at the same time, reinforce our confidence in the beauty and the communion that is always possible between different cultures.

MADAM NGUYEN THI XUAN PHUONG
LOTUS GALLERY


SG Private Banking Gallery,
Alliance Francaise de Singapour, 4th Floor
1 Sarkies Road, Singapore 258130
(Newton MRT, parking facilities)
Public Viewing : Monday to Saturday, 12pm – 8pm; Sunday, 2pm – 6pm.
Admission: Free

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