A painting by Hong Viet Dung entitled Village Tree
Hanoi (VNA) - Contemporary works and archival materials bythe Gang of Five, a group of the country’s top artists, are beingdisplayed at an exhibition in Hanoi.
The group, including painters Hong Viet Dung, Ha Tri Hieu, Dang Xuan Hoa,Tran Luong and Pham Quang Vinh, hold an esteemed position in the historyof fine art in Vietnam’s post-doi moi (renewal) era. They emerged in theearly 80’s as Vietnam was struggling to rebuild after decades of war.
The exhibition, jointly held by the Art Vietnam Salon Gallery and the JapanFoundation Asia Centre, is being curated by Le Thuan Uyen and is designedto celebrate their achievements and honour their place in Vietnamese arthistory. The exhibition is being held at the Vietnam Feature FilmStudio.
It also includes a collection of archival materials highlighting theiraesthetic development and the unique environment in which they created, saidSuzanne Lecht, Director of the Art Vietnam Salon Gallery, where theoriginal copies of archival materials owned by collectors worldwide will bedisplayed.
The exhibition will be accompanied by weekly curatorial tours that will takevisitors through the exhibition venue, to Art Vietnam Salon Gallery and to theartists’ studios.
The tour schedules will be announced in the coming days and those wishing toattend must sign up by sending an email to info@artvietnamgallery.com.
A catalog of the exhibition sponsored by the Hanoi Goethe Institute and ThingsAsianPress Hong Kong will be available by the end of the year.
“Known for creating bold, distinctive works, depicting personal conceptionsthat departed from the socialist realist imposition of the previous generationof artists, they began to gain attention and started exhibiting abroad in theearly 90’s,” said Lecht.
Their first joint exhibition was in 1990, and they adopted the name Gangof Five in a 1993 exhibition.
Invitations to exhibit abroad in Hong Kong, the Netherlands, and in New York quicklyfollowed as the world recognised the emergence of a culture previously hiddenfrom world view.
The exhibition will run until November 19 at the Vietnam Feature Film Studio, 4Thuỵ Khue street, Hanoi. The Art Vietnam Salon Gallery is locatedat 2, Alley 66, Yen Lac street.-VNA
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A painting by Hong Viet Dung entitled Village Tree 
