“Painting is the music of sight and of hearing,” Huy said. “I want all of my paintings to make people’s souls more peaceful and beautiful.”
The image of the violin, his favourite musical instrument, obsessed Huy as a young man.
Huy says he admired the great violinist Paganini and loved to read French poetry, whose melodic verse helped his visual compositions.
Through the language of symbols, Huy’s abstract and semi-abstract paintings glimmer with colour in works such as Giai Dieu Vang (Golden Melody), Giao Huong Xanh (Green Symphony), Nhac Chieu (The Serenade) and Mua Vang (Good Harvest).
Huy has won more than 20 local and international prizes for graphic design and the plastic arts.
Huy’s work has been displayed in more than 60 exhibitions at HCM City’s Fine Arts Museum.
Huy, whose real name is Huynh Van Muoi, was born in 1950 in HCM City, and is now a lecturer at the HCM City College of Fine Arts and head of HCM City’s Fine Arts Association.
The exhibition ends tomorrow at the HCM City’s Fine Arts Association, 218A Pasteur Street, District 3, HCM City. — VNS
