Dang Thi Duong, Cao Thi Duoc, Nguyen Thuy Huong, Nguyen Dam Thuy, and Nguyen Thi Tam are from the HCM City Women Painters Club and Hoa va Rung (Flower and Forest), the exhibition that opened on the 1st, is being held to mark Women’s Day on Saturday.
Duong’s works are mainly about forests with flowers and round-eyed owls under violet moonlight, a sea change from her bomb – and bullet-riddled scenes inspired by the Truong Son war theatre which she had visited many times.
The Cham ethnic minority culture, flowers, and teenage girls abound in Duoc’s paintings which are all about audacious style, bright colours, and romantic moods. Her Rung Khuya (Night in the Forest) featuring a teenage girl under a new moon in the forest is among those on show.
Tam’s paintings on silk show the ethereal beauty of the Mekong Delta’s cajuput forests and flowers surrounded by water Hoang Hon Sau Rung (Twilight in the Forest), Suong Som (Morning Dew), and Rong Tim Trong Canh Dong Hoang (Violet Water Plant in Wild Field).
Duong, Duoc and Huong are lecturers at the HCM City Fine Arts College. Tam, the senior artist in the group, is a former professor at the university and has had 18 solo exhibitions in France, the US, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
The exhibition is on until next Monday at the HCM City Exhibition Room, 92 Le Thanh Ton Street. — VNS
