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Danh Vo
dal 19/11/2010 al 19/3/2011

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19/11/2010

Danh Vo

SMK National Gallery of Denmark / Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

"Hip Hip Hurrah" is the title of the x-rummet exhibition; it comprises eight works, seven of which are all-new. The festive title applied to the works on display deliberately plays with and challenges the most basic. A special initiative for this exhibition is a pop-up cake designed by Danh Vo.


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The exhibition Hip Hip Hurra marks Vo’s first solo representation in Denmark. The festive title applied to the works on display deliberately plays with – and challenges – the most basic and simple definitions of identity and the personal. The exhibit comprises seven works, six of which are all-new.

Combining Collective History with Personal Experience
Danh Vo’s dramatic, personal history; the element of chance that established the family’s link to Denmark; and the question about how identity is shaped by/affected by/subordinated to overarching cultural and political situations – all this has infused Danh Vo’s work. His sculptures are made out of things that point back to the past with hushed insistence while also pointing ahead towards entirely new, unexpected meanings, links, and contexts. These are fragments of a past that starts out as his own, but which soon turns out to be connected to a far more wide-ranging history.

Objects as history
In many of his works Danh Vo materializes to aspects of Vietnam’s complicated history, thereby also seeking to reclaim his own, partially lost cultural identity. To Danh Vo, history as such – with all its complex exchanges between political, religious, and cultural entities and relations – is reflected in individual life stories. In his works, collective history is crossed with personal memory – often quite literally in the form of the objects used to compile his sculptures.

Danh Vo was born in southern Vietnam in 1975. When Vo was four year old his family fled the postwar chaos in a boat built by Vo’s father. They hoped to reach the USA, but were picked up on the Pacific by a passing Danish trawler. In Denmark the entire family became Danish citizens, and all of them except Danh Vo – the restless younger brother, forever on the move and currently residing in Berlin and Bangkok– have lived in Denmark ever since.

His name - an artwork in itself
A characterization of Danh Vo’s art can be seen in his name. In Vietnam, you write down your family name first and given name last. When Danh Vo and his family were registered by the Danish authorities, the family name Vo was placed last. His middle name,Trung, was recorded as his first name. 21 years later he turned to the subject in the artwork Vo Rosasco Rasmussen. In this ongoing work he seeks to marry people who are special to him and add their last names to his own. After each marriage, Vo immediately gets divorced but retains the last name of his former spouse. His official name is now Trung Ky Danh Vo Rosaco Rasmussen.

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