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Abhilasha Singh |
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b. 1975 Lucknow, India
Abhilasha Singh is a self-taught artist who started painting when she was 2 years old.
Using water colour on Indian hand-made paper, she paints highly stylized, colourful and strong images of women, effortlessly combining traditional and contemporary themes. |
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Duy Thai |
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b. 1955 Hai Phong, Vietnam
After periods spent living and working in Czechoslovakia and East Germany during the 1980s and early 1990s, Duy Thai returned to Vietnam where he has become recognised as a specialist in water colour painting on hand made ‘do’ paper, in the tradition of the northern Dong Ho culture.
Known locally as ‘Thai Cat’ for his humorous paintings of cats, he also paints hill tribe people in national dress, landscapes, village and river scenes and flowers. His colour palette is relatively narrow, but he perfectly captures the serenity of Vietnamese pastoral life in delicately executed and deceptively simple compositions. |
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He Hong Wei |
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b. 1971 Inner Mongolia, China
Hong Wei is a remarkable and very exciting talent.
Rooted in traditional Chinese brush painting, but also strongly influenced by Cezanne and Picasso, Hong Wei’s series of abstract/impressionist land- and city-scapes is like an ancient, epic scroll painting, linking the past, present and future with powerful and emotional memories. |
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Keti Shalamberidze |
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b 1960 Tbilisi, Georgia
Graduating from Tbilisi State Fine Art Academy in 1986, Keti already has an impressive record of exhibitions, both in Georgia and across Europe.
Her work is executed in bold, expressive drawing with rhythmically interchanging color and line. Part figurative, part abstract, rarely depicting any concrete phenomenon or subject, these are expressions of her thoughts, feelings and emotional experiences, each one a means of communicating her impressions of her world. |
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Nguyen Dieu Thuy |
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b. 1962, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Nguyen Dieu Thuy is one of a generation of women who, through work, talent and determination, have overcome the sadness and struggle of growing up in post-war Saigon.
She is drawn to white, and this lends a contemporary eye to her harmonious compositions of traditional Vietnamese urban and rural life – women in white, people of the floating markets, fishermen, sparrows, rice bowls, chopsticks, earthenware jars, fans and flowers.
Although she paints her women in traditional white ‘ao dai’, the narrative of these paintings is contemporary. Invariably, she adds a touch of colour with a fan, a scarf or flowers, and the poses her figures adopt are poised and elegant: classical, graceful and poetic, yet ready to meet the challenges of a new Vietnam. |
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Nguyen Than |
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b. 1948, Kim Song, Vietnam
Than is a natural expressionist, his work highly personal, intense and emotional.
His early work, mostly executed in oil, are memories – the rich imagery of his grandmother’s village in the North mingling with the sadness of growing up in the South during and after the war, when he was banned from painting. |
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Nguyen Thanh Binh |
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b. 1954 Hanoi, Vietnam
Binh’s simple compositions are rendered with subdued hues of creams, browns and whites, punctuated occasionally with reds and blacks. He likens his preference for simplicity in composition and design to his own way of life - he wants to express the sorrow of the Vietnamese soul in his works.
The elegance of his works moves beyond the form of his subjects and captures their innate grace and beauty. Binh does not just see females for their physical form, but is inspired by the sense of each woman, that elusive feminine mystery.
To Binh, women are always beautiful, from the line of their form to the smoothness of their skin and its texture. |
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Phan Thanh Minh |
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b. 1976 Hoi An, Vietnam
Graduating from Fine Arts University in only 2007, Phan Thanh Minh shows remarkable confidence in his compositional style and use of colour.
Working with a vivid and perhaps courageous palette, Minh’s paintings are an emancipation, raw emotions expressed and satisfied in orange or lemon yellow, sometimes applied in gentle caresses, at others almost thrown onto the surface of his canvases.
His paintings are chapters in his diary of emotions, portraits that are both familiar and strange, with eyes that seem to appear and disappear in the swirl of colour and abstraction. |
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Vu Ha Nam |
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b. 1962, Vietnam
Working in watercolour on rice paper or silk or oil on card, Vu Ha Nam’s paintings are reminiscences of Vietnam, dreams of older, perhaps happier times.
His colourful, abstract landscapes hide ghost-like faces that peer eerily from his canvas, as if searching for memories; his monochromatic sketches of nudes reclining in a minimalist village landscape, invite comparison with Picasso’s later work. |
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