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Events
for the week October 20-25
Youth Theatre
11 Ngo Thi Nham
Str,
HCMC: 25 and 26 Oct
2014, 8 pm
IDECAF
31 Thai Van Lung,
Dist 1, HCMC
Without Stars and
There We Have Been, two dance productions which were inspired by Haruki
Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood, will be performed in
James Cousins and
his dancers will hit the Youth Theatre in
A graduate of
London Contemporary Dance School, James Cousins founded the dance company in
2012 with creative producer Francesca Moseley to explore new ideas with his
team of collaborators and to tour his critically acclaimed productions
throughout the UK and internationally. Also in 2012, James Cousins won the
inaugural Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Choreography Award. James Cousins
has recognised by Time Out magazine as one of the future faces of dance.
Apart from staged
performances, James Cousins and his dancers will deliver a dance workshop
with choreographers and dancer students at the
Without Stars and
There We Have Been are two touching and emotionally charged pieces of work
with intense folding, wrapping and balancing. They were created based on the
inspiration from the troubled relationships beautifully portrayed in the
novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Below is how There We Have Been was
beautifully reviewed by Laura Dodge for Londondance.com.
“In low lighting,
dancer the female dancer was held constantly off the floor by her male
partner. She was supported through all manner of poses from high leg
extensions to seated embraces and wrapping her body around her companion.
“Always progressing
fluidly but with varying speed of movement, the couple’s relationship was
open to infinite viewer interpretations, but the female’s dependence on the
male was unrelenting. The piece reached a haunting end as the female fragile
figure hovered in the air, gesturing towards her partner and he walked away,
finally free.
“It was simply one
of the most stunning contemporary dance pieces I have ever seen. So
mesmerising, its 20-minute length passed by in what seemed like seconds.”
Cherry Gough,
Country Director, British Council Vietnam said: ‘We’re delighted to be
bringing the best of British contemporary dance to Vietnamese audiences.
James Cousins is a graduate of the London School of Contemporary Dance, and
is widely considered to be one of the brightest new stars of contemporary
dance in the
Tickets
Ticket prices:
100,000 and 200,000 VND
Tickets are
available to be purchased now:
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Hotline for booking
and delivery: 04. 2.2409025
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Hotline for booking
and delivery: 098 987 4517 and 0903 041959
Exhibition
“Ambiguity | Affitta” by Artist Pham Tuan Tu
Opening: Sat 18 Oct
2014, 5.30 pm
Exhibition: 18 – 27
Oct 2014
No 31A Van Mieu
road,
ACCAviet cordially
presents a piece of solo exhibition of painter Pham Tuan Tu named “Ambiguity
| Affitta”.
What is AFFITTA?
AFFITTA is an
Italian word used for imperative. AFFITTA means “FOR RENT” and Ambiguity in
Vietnamese expresses a state of vagueness and being unclear, half this side
and the other half in the other side. This tends to lead to chaos and disorder.
Why do the
exhibition named AMBIGUITY | AFFITTA?
This is a solo show
of artist Pham Tuan Tu. This exhibition includes nearly 40 paintings through
almost seven years of the artist’s creative activities since 2008 up to
present.
The artworks of
Pham Tuan Tu all carry the cold grey color tone. The shapes in the works are
absentminded and aimless. It seems like them don’t need any connection with
the earth. The body and the head are like the two opposing essences. A
borrowed head for a body or a naked body is renting another head. Everything
seems to be mellow and unable to identify. The borderlines between the owner
and the renter are erased. The state of renting becomes the state of
ambiguity. There’s no distinction between the borders of genders, space and
spirit.
Looking at Tuan
Tu’s works, it is not merely considered from the gender perspective. The
ambiguity of appearance, inner soul, gender, spirituality is a part of his
creative process but not necessary as the most important factor. This factor
is borrowed and used through the empowering language of the arts. With the
style mixed between irony, arrogance and solidarity, he wanted to tell the
stories between human beings. It could be very humane, cold or mournful. With
his works which are full of emotions in life journey, one individual journey,
the fate and spirituality through the physical living time. The coldness or
indifference are all the laws of heaven and earth.
There are some
comments by painter Pham Quang Hieu – a closed friend of Pham Tuan Tu:
“…Seeing the works
of Tu, we could easily associate with the horror films from Hollywood or the
book “Strange stories from a Chinese Studio” by Pu Songling. The plaintive
lyrics of Pham Duy are echoing somewhere else: “The afternoon goes by
quietly/ The flowers and the graves are fading/ Oh the white flower color of
the funeral? I want to do the ceremony for your broken love…in a late winter
I went to the pagoda/ To say farewell to you my darling in this coffin…!
…Deviating from the
normal trajectory of aesthetics, he uses symbols and true feelings. Pham Tuan
Tu has brought us into a world where the black-white, good-evil, male-female…
is not really to differentiate. Even the artist tried to attach the theme to
a certain social issue, but in an unconscious manner. Tu’s works still placed
before us a more fundamental question about the human nature and human
being.”
“Ambiguity –
Affitta” exhibition is the first solo exhibition by Pham Tuan Tu in Vietnam,
though a number of his works have been presented and displayed at the
National Fine Arts Exhibition 2010, the Dogma Prize in Hochiminh City in 2013
and National Festival of Young Artists in 2014 in Hanoi.
“Ambiguity –
Affitta” will be opened at 05:30 P.M, Saturday October 18th 2014 at the Nguyen
Art gallery, 31A Van Mieu St., Hanoi and will be showcased until the end of
October 27th 2014.
This event is made
possible thanks to generous supports from Danish Cultural Development and
Exchange Fund in Vietnam (CDEF).
Book Launch
“Art and Talent”
Book launch and
expert talk: Thu 23 Oct 2014, 7 pm
Goethe-Institut
Art and Talent, a
foreground on the 8X contemporary artists generation of
The manuscript of
Art and Talent was developed from her research essay commissioned by Culture
and Arts Magazine, from 2010 to 2012. Then, she corrected and completed as a
book manuscript with about 150 images of art works by young artists in all
over
Her project is
continously granted by CDEF and particularly by the Goethe Institute Hanoi
for her Vietnamese printed version. The English version of the book in this
project was specially revised by Mr John Kleinen, Ph.D, Associate Professor
Emritus, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), the
From 7pm, October,
23rd, 2014 (Thursday), the Goethe Institute Hanoi and Ms Dao Mai Trang will
co-host the book launch at the Institute grand hall. The program with
participations of many young artists and art critics, researchers and art
lovers will be an open discussion about the real situation of ?and hopes for
the development of Vietnamese visual art.
The book contents
in brief:
It includes two
chapters and the section of introduction of nine artists
Chapter 1: The
social context: speaks of external advantages and disadvantages which have
been influencing on the artistic creativity of artists born in the early
1980s (1980 – 1985) as the 8X generation, such as fast changes in the social
life, the impacts of the market economy to the art creativity, the
environment of art education, the upset of social and cultural values, etc.
The author tries to analyze and to evaluate impact of every social aspect to
art creativity of young artists.
Chapter 2: Major
problems to the 8X artists generation: Finance and Talent and according to
the author, talent must be seen as the essence. The author gives out
suggestions for realizing more clearly the artistic stuff of the 8X artists
generation. The book is open to any conclusion and the author does hope that
each reader will take his own conclusion answering to the question: why
Vietnamese cultural life in general, its art life in particular, has been
facing to the risk of lagging behind other countries in the region and in the
world.
Nine artists in the
author’s interest: Nguyen Huy An, Bang Nhat Linh, Thai Nhat Minh, Nguyen
Phuong Linh, Thai Nhat Minh, Le Hoang Bich Phuong, Ha Manh Thang, Pham Huy
Thong, Vu Duc Toan, Vu Duc Trung. The author is interested in their art
journeys because she has found that they are distinguished and different to
others in their same generation.
Details of the
publication:
The English version
is published only under the eBook platform, licensed by Literature Publishing
House with about 150 images of art works and art spaces in all over the
country. It will be distributed on Hanoi Grapevine.
The Vietnamese
version is printed (500 copies, at size 22.3×17.3cm, hard covered, 248 pages,
colored on couche matt paper with about 150 images of art works and art
spaces, price: 350,000.00 VND, licensed by Women Publishing House).
Dao Mai Trang has
been working as the editor for the fine arts column, Culture and Arts
Magazine (the voice of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Vietnam) since
2000. She has been writing many articles and interviewing Vietnamese and
foreign artists for Culture and Arts Magazine (www.vhnt.org.vn); Sports and
Culture News (www.thethaovanhoa.vn); Soi (www.soi.com.vn); Nhandan News (www.nhandan.com.vn).
Science
Film Festival 2014
Science Film
Festival: 24 Oct – 14 Dec 2014
in 13 cities &
provinces
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IN
Opening: Fri 24 Oct
2014
Lomonoxop School My
Dinh
Khu do thi My Dinh
2, Nam Tu Liem,
—
Film screening: Sun
26 Oct 2014, 2 pm
Kim Dong Cinema
19 Hang Bai,
—
Activity days: 08 –
09 Nov, 9 am – 5 pm
Goethe-Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái
Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
The tenth edition
of the Science Film Festival for children and adolescents sets the look onto
the future and asks: What technology will shape the world of tomorrow? Every
day we see new scientific discoveries and technological innovations. What was
unimaginable yesterday is already reality today. The media teaches us new
words like android, synthetic biology and quantum computers – all of which
are concept that used to be subjects for experts and scientists, but soon
will influence our daily life and the world we live in. In this fast changing
times it becomes harder to keep up with all the various developments. What
promises do these new technologies offer and what dangers come with them?
At the Science Film
Festival presented by the Goethe Institute twelve nations from Southeast
Asia, North Africa and the Middle East show various films and TV shows from
all over the world that give fascinating insights into the technological
innovations of today and tomorrow.
For the fourth time
For the Activity
Days on the 8th and 9th November all children, adolescents and adults are
invited to the Goethe Institute to join in and discover science and
technology with their own hands.
“That’s New
– What’s Next” – Graphic Art Exhibition of Benjamin Badock
Opening: Thu 09 Oct
2014, 6 pm
Exhibition: 10 Oct
– 02 Nov 2014
Goethe-Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái
Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
The Goethe-Institut
presents Benjamin Badock, one of the most seminal and original graphic
artists in
You could always
know more about Benjamin through his two artist talk in
Benjamin Badock was
born in
Free entrance.
Sculpture
Showcase “New Form: Sculpture – Architecture – Space”
Opening: Fri 10 Oct
2014, 2 pm
Exhibition: 10 Oct
– 04 Nov 2014
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich,
Artists: Phạm Thái
Bình, Thái Nhật Minh, Khổng Đỗ Tuyền, Hoàng Mai Thiệp
Curator: Nguyễn Anh
Tuấn
Manzi Art Space and
New Form sculpture group cordially presents a piece of experimental sculpture
named “New Form: Sculpture – Architecture – Space”. The exhibition is an
activity in New Form project phase II, 2014 – 2015.
NEW FORM is an
experimental sculpture project, which aims to overcome stereotypes of
traditional sculpture and to open up new directions in thinking and creative
possibilities of this art form. NEW FORM was founded by sculptors living and
working in
In phase II, New
Form project aims towards the connection of sculpture works with
architectural living space in reality. The dialogue characteristics between
the artworks are placed in the communicative ability with architecture,
interior, and usage of that space. This dialogue has created special
challenges when sculptures aren’t just dealing with its traditional inner
relation such as shapes, materials, surfaces, colours, and aesthetics… but
also with the correlation between sculpture and architectural space in the
shape and function. This has to do with the environment, light, air, time,
weather, the available context, and the changeable context as well as with
the viewers’ behaviours and attitude to arts. When art isn’t just purely for
the visual satisfying display, art has transformed into an intervention,
intrusion and being parallel with movements, feelings, psychologies in
everyday life activities. Sculpture, therefore, needs to be more active in
their presence in the chosen space, how to integrate into that space as well
as the on-going challenges because of the living space’s continuous
operational characteristics. It isn’t simply just a traditional static fixed
dead space.
The works of Thai
Nhat Minh is a sculpture experiments with its role to connect the current
space with the concept. Minh tries to find the connection between the inner
and outer space, interior and exterior space by implementing at the gallery’s
windows. The sculptural shapes were pressed flat and shown in a reflective
material. The space in and outside interfered through the gaps of the window
frames creating a visible visual connection for the audience. The artist
wants to use this dialogue to open suggestions and questions about space and
the space connection between inside and outside, between the reflective
illusion reality, between the limited physical space and the imaginative
conceptual space.
The showcase of
Pham Thai Binh took inspiration form the strong influence of architecture and
modern design language to sculpture. Leaving the sculptures based on fixed
forms, the works of Binh has developed towards site-specific installations
and modularity. The leaf-formed-pieces are arranged from the main wall of the
fireplace to the gallery ceiling. It aims to explore flexibility and
diversity ability in the combination of sculpture and architecture. This
actually exists inside the sculpture itself.
Khong Do Tuyen
continues to deploy the art direction of combining the rope structure from
phase I. Following this way; he uses the ropes to create the structure of the
space. Tuyen uses the walls, windows and the entire gallery ceiling as the
space for sculpture. The artist’s experiment expanded the sculpture
possibility. It isn’t just integrating but also changing the architecture
space and also shows the connection between architecture space and sculpture
space can be a unified piece. This new language surely has the influence from
the modern architecture structure, industrial design but sill keeps the vibe
spirit of traditional creative sculpture.
Sculptor Hoang Mai
Thiep shows a piece of sculpture combining with site-specific installation.
Having the inspiration from the family tree – the popular family genealogy in
rural life, Thiep uses the wooden blocks in many different sizes to mount on
the large walls of the room. The blocks are arranged in an alternative and
overlapping way beside the portrait reliefs of the rural men and women or
just empty reliefs. The conceptual elements of the work is expressed through
the installation of the blocks in a random way, the empty and solid of each
block, as well as the ambition to show the complex content through the
sculpture language. And it also wants to embrace the connection ability of
sculpture and other architectural spaces. `
The participation
of Pham Dam Ca brought graphical solution for the showcase of the sculptures.
They aren’t just present with the auxiliary function for the sculptures. The
graphic language of Dam Ca goes along with the works in the spirit of a
specialized graphic solution for the art exhibition, which continued to
develop from New Form exhibition I (2013). The shapes-arrays-lines, which
were expressed in the logo of the project in phase I, are now dissected to
intentionally independent fragmented segments and pieces. This is a concise
expression in visual and graphic language in parallel to the development of
sculpture form and space.
To understand in a
simple way, architecture is a work of creating spaces to serve the function
of human lives. However, architecture isn’t just the physical space with the
divided spaces of specific function. That is also the structure of human
lives such as space structure, thinking structure, relationship structure or
aesthetic structure. When sculpture starts to find a way to intervene,
intrude in that space, it is not only the process of seeking and adapting
with architecture but it has the ability to shift, change or even redefine
architecture spaces by its visual elements and time concept. When
architecture has oriented more and more to the universality in public space,
uniqueness in small and medium spaces with its own meanings, sculpture also
needs to shift and change to bring out the suggestions. That is the objective
of New Form project and the spirit of this exhibition.
This event is made
possible with the generous support from Danish Cultural Development and
Exchange Fund in Vietnam (CDEF).
Exhibition
“Not Quite Landscapes” at Dong Phong Gallery
Exhibition: 12 Oct
– 12 Nov 2014
Hoan Kiem District,
Artist Vu Duc Trung
will once again present lacquer-art to his admirers at the solo exhibition
“Not Quite Landscapes” opening at
We perceive nature
to be an endless source for the themes that the artist uses and renews again
and again. He creates various points of view that allow us to delve deep into
the sensation of space and time and the objects that revolve around them.
In Vu Duc Trung’s
work, nature is rendered using traditional methods of lacquer painting to
produce an array of colours in which shapes and figures have been eliminated.
The permutations of forms and pallets are done with such proficiency that the
paintings become akin to a leisurely walk. Vu Duc Trung does not coerce the
viewer into views of preconceived forms, but rather lets them experience a
carefree and pleasing sense of nature between heaven and earth.
Looking at his
paintings, do we not sometimes get a clear sensation of emptiness, of
soullessness, even of desolation and coldness? Are these the perceptions of
the viewer or do they also reflect the artist’s state of mind?
The most striking
feature of this exhibition is the round lacquer boards on which all the
paintings are made. Is it true that the artist “binds” landscapes into
specific shapes so that they become not quite landscapes? They imply a deeper
sense of the finite and infinite …
Exhibition
“Minimal Asian” to Celebrate Twelve Years of Module 7
Exhibition: 18 Oct
– 09 Nov 2014, 9 am – 7 pm
Module 7
83 Xuan Dieu Str,
Tay Ho,
Founded in 2002,
Module 7 is a leading company in interior design consultancy in
The design of
Module 7 is the seamless combination of contemporary design and Vietnamese
cultural essence. Products are designed and made in traditional craft
villages across the country. Each item holds long-standing cultural values of
traditional artisanal know-how with a resonance of modernity.
On October 18th, we
are going to hold a 12 year celebration with an interior exhibition titled
“Minimal Asian” by designer and founder of Module 7 Pham Kieu Phuc.
A dozen year
celebration is also an occasion for us to express and share our passion and
vocation in preserving and raising the value of handicraft production methods
using local materials such as: woods, ceramics, bronze, bamboo and lacquer.
You are also invited to the whole aspect and insight of our works, from
products development process to interior design projects as well as skillful
craftsman portraits through video clip made by our team.
To Phạm Kiều Phúc,
designer and founder of Module 7, contemplating to express not only the form
but the hidden spirit of Asian decor is an exciting challenge, an open road
that she has an opportunity to work in the present context where the
craftsmanship is rich but lacks of competitiveness due to the absence of a
suitable design thinking.
“Good design, to my
mind, is the realization of a concept in which all the details are justified,
where everything is necessary but there is no excess, where the function
perfectly suits the context that give born to the idea. Our conical hat is a
typical example.
There are my guides
in creating objects and interior design. I am inspired by the serenity I have
felt working with craftsmen and reflecting on their work. I do all I can to
instill the knowledge they have given me into every object or piece of
furniture I make. My final products are no longer mere craft objects, they
always contain a core of tradition.”
Exhibition
“Information Transmitted by Horse Riding”
Opening: Tue 30 Sep
2014, 6 pm
Exhibition: 30 Sep
- 26 Oct/2014
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà
Nội
At first glance,
the exhibition is merely a herd of seven horses calmly grazing in a meadow.
If we look more closely, these horses are carefully crafted from Boi papers,
a Vietnamese traditional material, and are covered with randomly arranged
pictures conveying meaningful life lessons. Is social media network gradually
dominating our life? Transmitting information by horse riding enables us to
search for information, screen and make them ours. But most importantly, it
allows us to live more slowly.
Free entrance.
Hanoigrapevine/VNN
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Thứ Ba, 21 tháng 10, 2014
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