Vu Dan Tan Museum was designed by architect Hoang Le and established with the purpose of preserving, researching, documenting, and exhibiting the works of pioneering Vietnamese contemporary artist Vu Dan Tan (October 3, 1946 - October 14, 2009) to serve the community's interests.
At the ceremony, exhibition curator Iola Lenzi said that the museum houses installations, sculptures, artifacts, paintings, drawings, prints, and art books, as well as manuscripts of music and literature composed and compiled by Vu Dan Tan. Thereby, allowing domestic and foreign audiences to access the artist's works that have never been published before.
“The museum will conceptualize exhibitions, workshops, and open studio programs, as well as initiate educational programs aimed at a wide range of audiences through tours, discussions, lectures, seminars, and art dialogues, with the aim of sharing experiences and promoting research in the field of art,” added Ms. Iola Lenzi.
As part of the opening ceremony, an exhibition introducing Vu Dan Tan’s works was also introduced to the public. The exhibition is a small moment in Vu Dan Tan’s creative process over many decades.
The exhibition features a number of important works such as Cadillac/Icarus; Money; Suitcases of a Pilgrim, and many others. Through these works, visitors can understand Vu Dan Tan’s worldview and his relationship with art, as he embraced the times in which he lived.
Vu Dan Tan is a deeply thoughtful artist, who is both creative and critical. Not critical in the negative sense, but critical in the sense of deeply contemplating what surrounds him, their connection to culture, to great ideas, to the past - the future and the social and cultural impacts of changing events or social phenomena.
He was creative, independent, but not entirely in his own world. Vu Dan Tan saw creating art as a contribution to the world, and he did so with generosity, wit, humor, and beauty.
Thanks to this perspective, he invented new artistic languages to respond to the changing Vietnamese context, a changing world, and in response, became part of it, developing theoretically grounded aesthetics, which turned out to be an indispensable part of Southeast Asian contemporary art as it spread in the decades after 1970.
The Opening Exhibition takes place from December 10, 2025 to April 5, 2026 at Vu Dan Tan Museum (443 Ngoc Thuy, Hanoi ).
Some photos at the event:
Source: https://congluan.vn/bao-tang-vu-dan-tan-chinh-thuc-ra-mat-cong-chung-10321654.html
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