The brilliant natural world with its clouds, flowers and insects are reflected in the silk paintings of Vu Dinh Tuan. As nature is best appreciated when we are quiet, he has asked people to keep silent as they look at his work.
One by one: Four Seasons, the painting by Vu Dinh Tuan
Hanoi (VNA) - The brilliant natural world with its clouds, flowersand insects are reflected in the silk paintings of Vu Dinh Tuan.
As nature isbest appreciated when we are quiet, he has asked people to keep silent as theylook at his work.
Tuan’s solo exhibition opened this weekendin Hanoi with the title “Silent, Flowers Are Blooming”.
This exhibition presents a collection of 21silk paintings created by Tuan last year. With his distinctive style, Tuan hascharmingly contributed to the art of silk painting in the Vietnamesecontemporary art scene in the last decade, remarked painter Le Anh Van, head ofthe Vietnam University of Fine Arts.
World renowned: Silent, Flowers are Blooming, a painting by Vu Dinh Tuan.
“Tuan’s delicate silk works transfix uswith his use of vibrant colours and a myriad of unexpected details,” he said.
“His stylised faces rendered withcontrasting animate and inanimate objects verge on surrealism, although hispaintings are not easily categorised since his work is truly unique.”
“Unlike oil or acrylic paintings that canbe modified with additional layering, painting on silk is a meticulous processthat requires perfect control and painstaking accuracy.”
“Tuan demonstrated the highest technique insilk paintings. The brilliant nature in his paintings inspired ourimagination.”
Talking about his artwork, Tuan said simplythat he realised that only when we keep silent, we can better experiencenature.
“Just with silence, we can feel theflower’s blossom, the breath of the insects and movement of clouds. The life iswonderful and miraculous.”
Tuan was born in 1973 in Hanoi. He studiedfine arts in Vietnam and printmaking in Portland, Maine. He is currently alecturer in the Printmaking Department at the Vietnam University of Fine Artsas well as being a member of the Hanoi Fine Arts Association and the VietnamFine Arts Association.
The artist has exhibited widely in Vietnamand abroad in New York, Sweden, Japan, Bangladesh, Romania and Cambodia. He hasreceived numerous awards and prizes over the last 10 years and enjoys asignificant following in New York and around the world. He is regarded as oneof the finest Vietnamese contemporary silk artists.
The exhibition will run until January 28 atthe Hanoi Studio Gallery, 13 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi. - VNA
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One by one: Four Seasons, the painting by Vu Dinh Tuan 
World renowned: Silent, Flowers are Blooming, a painting by Vu Dinh Tuan. 
