Opening: Sat 20 Jul, 6 pm
Exhibition: 20 – 25 Jul 2013
HCMC Fine Arts Museum
From the organizer:
Dó10 is a retrospective exhibition featuring selected paintings and installation works created by Le Hien Minh over the last decade, all of which utilize traditional Vietnamese handmade Do paper as the central medium. Dó10 illustrates the progression of Le Hien Minh’s creativity from her early 2D experiments with Do paper, to her large scale sculptures of today.
Do paper is a material traditionally used in the creation of Dong Ho paintings, a type of folk woodcut painting which originates in Dong Ho village in Bac Ninh Province, Northern Vietnam. It is a natural paper created by the bark of the Do tree (Rhamnoneuron balansae).
Although the Do paper is the central medium in Le Hien Minh’s work, her overall body of work appears to have been created using a diversity of materials. For example, the material of “Birds” 2009 appears to be stone and “Home” 2004 appears to be rusty metal. This diversity of appearance is a natural outcome of Minh’s art making process, which engages natural elements such as rain, humidity, sun, etc. to generate unpredictable outcomes.
Le Hien Minh, through her use of Do Paper, offers a new perspective on a traditional Vietnamese material. In Le Hien Minh’s work, the material acts as a bridge between contemporary Vietnamese/Global culture, and Vietnamese art history and traditional culture.
About the artsit
Le Hien Minh is a female artist who was born after 1975 in Ha Noi and grew up in Sai Gon. She studied traditional lacquer painting at the HCMC Fine Art University, then transferredto, and graduated from, the Art Academy of Cincinnati in the United States majoring in Fine Art. Today, Le Hien Minh lives and works between Ho Chi Minh City and New York City.
HCMC Fine Arts Museum
97A Pho Duc Chinh, D1, HCMC
Source: Hanoi Grapevine
