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| Artist Nguyen Van Du (R), hangs up a painting in preparation for his solo exhibition ‘A bunch of messy stuff’ at the HCMC Association of Fine Arts in HCMC’s District 3 - Photo: My Tran |
‘A bunch of messy stuff’ is a solo exhibition by artist Nguyen Van Du which will open on Friday at HCMC Association of Fine Arts, featuring 21 artworks made of oil on canvas and acrylic.
The exhibition is the result of the artist’s process of working, researching and studying at HCMC Fine Arts University. It is inspired from the artist’s feelings of self-conversation against reality, self-inquiring and doubt in the working process.
Each work is a story which sees the artist recollect meetings with boorish men with big bellies drinking beer, desperate women with oversized bodies in a gym, painted faces of streetgirls on Tu Xuong Street or the don’t-care attitude of a girl with cosmetic surgery on her face on 30/4 Park. Via the works, the artist derides the excessive worries of people who are obsessed with their looks and other’s dispassion.
Each work is an expression of the artist’s state of mind which can vary from deep to high, from cheerful to silent, obsessed and impasse.
Born in 1986 in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, Du is a fifth year student at HCMC University of Fine Arts. He has won many prizes in local painting contests and joined some group exhibition in HCMC.
The show runs until Monday at the association, 218A Pasteur Street, HCMC’s District 3.
