Opening: Fri 18 Oct, 6 pm
Exhibition: 19 – 30 Oct 2013
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
From the organizer:
This is the first retrospective of the unique pictorial creation of TRAN TRUNG TIN (1933– 2008).
Described as MUNCH IN HANOI, Vietnam’s greatest expressionist artist painted in Hanoi during the American-Vietnam War (1964–1975) to express the sorrow of a people caught up in one of the most tragic conflicts of the twentieth century.
Born in the Mekong Delta, Tin joined the Resistance against the French at the age of twelve and fought on the Cambodian front. At the end of the Franco-Vietnam war in 1954, he worked as a film actor and scriptwriter, but, frustrated by propaganda films, the multi-talented Tin braved wartime censorship and turned to painting. Tin’s images of girl soldiers with guns and flowers, broken buildings and broken lives are balanced by tender depictions of lovers, mothers and spiritual renegades. His cityscapes and abstracts are ‘meditative retreats of loosely painted blocks in warm colours, a self-created visual sanctuary from the war raging outside.’
Major exhibitions of his works have been held around the world including solo exhibitions at the Singapore Art Museum and the British Museum in London.
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St.
Hanoi
Source: Hanoi Grapevine
