Nguyễn Duy Mạnh and Trương Công Tùng: Untamed Souls | Âmes Indomptables
Opening : 18h, 16 May 2024
Galerie BAQ is thrilled to present "Untamed Souls," a duo exhibition featuring Vietnamese artists Nguyễn Duy-Mạnh and Trương Công-Tùng as they explore and reinterpret the rich history of their homeland through “earth”.
In his new painting series, titled As time passes through shadows... (2023 - ongoing), where Tùng experiments with lacquer on clay, the artist selects and intertwines a constellation of natural forms (flowers, leaves, termite wings, ember spark, rain droplets, fireflight glows, etc.), body organs (a tooth, hand with curved fingers, or hip bone), and abstract flows and strokes that invoke the presence of sublime, even divine, energy.
Nguyễn Duy Mạnh invites us to a feast, Phách Lạc - Lost Souls (2017-2023), a symbolic banquet where each ceramic dish, each element has been meticulously chosen and hand-painted by the artist himself. A banquet is both a solemn and convivial place, a space for exchange and sharing. Beyond mere visual and "taste" pleasure, it invites us to a philosophical and cultural debate on his perception of Vietnamese identity in contemporary society.
The exhibition is in collaboration with Sàn Art (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
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Nguyễn Duy-Mạnh, Phách Lạc (Lost Souls), 2017-2023, ceramics installation, exhibition view at The Outpost. Image courtesy of The Outpost
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Trương Công Tùng, Journey of a piece of soil, 2013-ongoing, 1-channel video (sound, color), 33 mins 35s, still from the video. Couresy of the artist
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Trương Công Tùng, As time passes through shadows..., 2023 - ongoing lacquer on clay. Image courtersy of Sàn Art