Lost in the vast universe in acrylic paintings by 'La Huong'

Artist Thu Huong with her works - Photo: HO LAM

The exhibition is Huong 2025 taking place from May 10 to 14 at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts (97A Pho Duc Chinh, Nguyen Thai Binh Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City).

Through the works in "Perfume", artist Nguyen Thu Huong hopes to send viewers endless inspiration, so that everyone can create new and different creative emotions.

Flower bloom or cosmic vortex?

Nearly 20 years with a creative style gradually shifting from impressionism to abstraction, in this exhibition Thu Huong pursues a vortex with many brilliant colors, creating a feeling of vastness like being lost in the vast universe or immersed in the depths of the ocean.

The technique of pouring color combined with the circular speckling effect in the painting, resembles twinkling stars in the sky or distant nebulae.

Dr. Ma Thanh Cao, former director of the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, said that when looking at Huong's paintings, some people think they are blooming flowers, while others feel they are the vortex of the vast universe.

Thu Huong's paintings have no names, because she wants "each viewer to feel the works of art according to their own emotions and souls," Huong told Tuoi Tre Online .

"Whether I'm painting or making pottery, I'm very free in my creativity. The technique of pouring color in my paintings gives me a lot of creative inspiration, and also gives me a very "Huong" style of painting.

With ceramics, I do not follow any artistic interpretation or school, but let the works be born with their own life, breath, and identity, without being constrained or imposed by any of my subjective desires" - artist Thu Huong shared.

The paintings in the exhibition "La Huong" have no names, but bring viewers different thoughts - Photo: HO LAM

Thin but unbreakable ceramic

Each of Thu Huong's ceramic works experiments with different techniques of clay preparation, fermentation, processes, and firing methods... to satisfy her own curiosity and imagination.

The blend of colors of the glazes combined with the lines of the clay and the fingerprints are preserved as a creative feature of hers. Glass is melted into the glaze, creating a unique color coat for the clay.

Thu Huong confided that coming to pottery was a great destiny in her life, opening up a new creative horizon for her. There was expectation, surprise when opening the kiln, there was love, joy but also sadness and disappointment.

Thu Huong shapes ceramic leaves

Talking about pottery techniques, Huong chose to make thin pottery. The ceramic vases have soft, curvy shapes like silk ribbons, the folds combined with the flow of glaze create the feeling of flowing water.

"Thin but not broken, thin but strong and sturdy, thin as paper but when touched, it resonates like a bell... These are also my creative features in the art of pottery making," said artist Thu Huong.

Ceramic plate shaped like a honeycomb

The paintings are sometimes like the vast vortex of the universe.

There are pictures like a blooming flower

Arrange ceramic vases on a wooden H-shaped shelf system with an ocean theme - Photo: HO LAM

Painter Nguyen Thu Huong graduated from the lacquer department of Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts in 2008; and graduated with a master's degree in fine arts from Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts in 2012.

She is a full-time artist, creating and researching experiments on many materials: lacquer, oil, acrylic, silk, graphic arts, ceramic art...

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