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Level after level… to new higher levels – Hanoigrapevine 26Oct2009
KTV I really enjoy the latest exhibition at Art Vietnam. The verb tense is correct as the pieces on show by Nguyen The Son are all around you as you wander Hanoi’s bursting, bustling streets. Like so many Westerners I’ve long been fascinated by Hanoi’s skeletal street poles that collect the noodle strands of electric wires into bunches of dried arrangements surmounted by loudspeakers. A few Vietnamese artists seem to be able to effectively portray these wonderful street features and Son’s Super Conductor series, that seemed to have been ongoing... Read The Rest →
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Under construction – Asian Art News – Volume 19 number 4 July/August 2009
The young Vietnamese painter and photographer Nguyen The Son looks to traditional silk painting to lend a new face to his vision of changing Hanoi. His quiet art is also informed by calligraphy and unique perspective of Hanoi. The face of Vietnamese contemporary art changed greatly during the past two decades since the country opened up to the world. The 1980s and the 1990s saw innumerable works produced that were informed by a wide range of styles and art movements from impressionism to Socialist Realism from neo- expressionism to the... Read The Rest →
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Midnight conversation – Saigon Citylife – May 2007
The series of photographs of the elongate shadows of tree on the pavements of late evening Ha noi, depict a beauty in the interzone between reality and the shadow-reality where things exist without rigid defination. The pavement shadowlay out in compositions both poetic an mundane. Intersting how, the angle attract Nguyen The Son talking his shots are either above on a high tree branches or down below under neath our feet as shadows. It is where things exist daily as they are in front of us, but we rarely paid... Read The Rest →
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WASHING HAIR JUST LIKE THAT
Nature or God is so mysterious and the way he creates us human being is even more myterious. We live for ourselves, within our own head that even if we rack our own brains, we still couldn’t under our own selves. We constantly explore ourselves and explore the world. Why do we have to explore? Because of the darkness! Close yours eyes, things becomes dark, but even when we open ours eyes, it is still dark and far away in the milky way except some really tiny stars, the rest... Read The Rest →
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Shadows symbolise struggles, hopes- Vietnamnews 3March2005
The Goethe Institute in Ha Noi is hosting an installation art exhibition entitled Within the Room, featuring artists Nguyen The Son and Tran Hau Yen The’s impressions of the shadows trees leave and the aspirations of the natural world. Two dimensional photos of shadows, looking like dark lightning bolts against pale sidewalks, meet three dimensional climbing ladders, wrapped in rope, demonstrating the aspirations of the trees, which cast the shadows in the photos. The hundreds of photos were taken at night under street lamps. Placed around the wall of the... Read The Rest →