'Hello Saigon' in many colors by 3 artists Ly Tran, Vuong Linh and Huong Giang Hoang

On the afternoon of November 24, at Nguyen's Art Garden (37 Street 103, Thanh My Loi Ward, Thu Duc City (HCMC), the exhibition Hello Saigon by 3 female artists: Ly Tran, Vuong Linh, Huong Giang Hoang opened, displaying 55 selected paintings full of colors by young people.

Father and son of painter Ly Tran

The common points in their works are femininity, fresh colors, and romance.

The Woman in the Black Vest by Ly Tran

After more than 20 years living abroad, artist Ly Tran returned to Vietnam and found the missing pieces of herself. The female artist confided: "When they knew I intended to organize a second exhibition in Saigon, they decided to join me. Three female artists with three different styles and colors want to bring a new breeze to the Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City art world at the end of the year. I came to Chao Sai Gon with the latest works, created in 2023 in Vietnam and the only work brought back from the US, Desert Flower, created in 2020, marking my decision to give up business and return to the path of art."

Painter Ly Tran also confided: "Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City is also a city that holds many beautiful memories for me. I like Saigon which is warm all year round, I like the sudden rains that are as capricious as a teenage girl."

Coming to the exhibition to see the works of this close "trio", viewers realize that the common points in their works are femininity, youthful colors, romance, despite the 3 different personalities and styles. They share a passion for painting, a desire to love and be loved. It seems that in their works, they all convey their own feelings, both mysterious and seductive, sometimes profound but also sometimes erupting violently like the angry waves of the ocean.

Artist Vuong Linh

Artist Huong Giang Hoang

The close "trio": Ly Tran, Vuong Linh and Huong Giang Hoang

If Ly Tran's paintings tend to be more expressive, like the monologue of a 40-year-old woman, no longer questioning herself, but affirming her female identity; then Vuong Linh's paintings, in the landscape section, tend to be more impressionistic, with a sense of melancholy, sadness, but not pathetic. Huong Giang Hoang has a lot of affection for flowers, not only in terms of emotions, but also of awareness, of peace of mind. Although her paintings tend to be realistic, they are realistic-expressive.

Painter Vuong Linh confided: "In my landscape oil paintings, I am often most interested in the quiet space, where the spirit resides somewhere - maybe in the forests, maybe in an old tree, or on a flower petal of a vast grassland that reaches to the horizon... When I paint, my thoughts mix with inspiration or joy and sadness dissolve into colors. I like to travel here and there and I don't paint what I see, I only paint what I feel, what moves me the most...".

Vuong Linh with Harvest Day (80x80cm, oil on canvas)

Artist Vuong Linh with Lost in the Forest (80x80cm, oil on canvas)

Talking about the lotus flowers in her paintings as if they were applied to her life, artist Huong Giang Hoang shared: "I paint myself through the image of lotus flowers."

Pure Land Chrysanthemum by Huong Giang Hoang (lacquer on canvas, 2023)

Talking about the lotus flowers in her paintings as if they were brought to life, artist Huong Giang Hoang shared: "I paint myself through the image of lotus flowers. Sometimes it is joy, happiness, when I am free and loved. Sometimes it is sadness, despair, suffering to the point of despair, it is the daily struggle in my soul. The lotus flowers seem to be dancing with me in a private space, where I see: My past, present, and future."

Hello Saigon by three female artists Ly Tran, Vuong Linh and Huong Giang Hoang is also a search for emotions to gently let loose between shapes and compositions for the flow of emotions to freely wander through the paintings. The exhibition lasts until December 3, 2023.

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