The source of "life sap" still flows...

08:42, 12/24/2023

Listening , watching, appreciating and sharing the "life sap" around us to vibrate with sincere and intense emotions before the colorful and diverse reality of life in the universe is the message that four artists from the Central Highlands and Khanh Hoa sea want to send to the audience through the Fine Arts Exhibition called "Full of Life Sap" at the Hong Hac WS. Point Art Space ( Ho Chi Minh City) held from November 14, 2023 to January 14, 2024.

Four artists including: Le Van, Truong Van Linh ( Dak Lak ), Ho Thi Xuan Thu (Gia Lai) and Bui Van Quang (Khanh Hoa) brought to the exhibition 20 paintings with different artistic styles and expressive materials. However, they have one thing in common, which is the love for nature depicted and wrapped in each concept, the feeling of the "flow" of nature, all visible and invisible things coming out of memory. Each color, each brush stroke of their work shows the attitude and responsibility of the artist for what is being lost - what remains on the land where they live, in order to bring viewers a multi-dimensional feeling.

Group of artists performing the Exhibition. Photo: Provided by the Exhibition Organizing Committee

Painter Le Van with “Sunshine on the Pass” and “When the Forest Was Green” makes the person standing in front of the painting fall into a state of separation - the present is real but also not real because of the hazy, fragile and seemingly fragile colors from the forests and sunlight that he delicately guides with watercolors on silk. The colors and constant changes of nature as well as life have urged Le Van to leave behind through each work with optimism, love, confidence, and a bit of confusion that: All over the mountains, hills, villages, and streets... have gradually lost their original wild and innocent beauty. There are beautiful and sincere scenes that have left us, even the color of rain and sunlight have changed too much.

Artist Truong Van Linh chose the path of creating woodcuts (black and white) to send to viewers the intense emotions and excitement from the daily life and activities of many groups of residents in the land where he lived. “March in the Central Highlands”, “Tay Village in the Central Highlands” and “Ben Dray Sap” are images full of vitality, carved by Truong Van Linh on wood using black and white artistic techniques, giving viewers a very real feeling of the motifs of communal houses, elephants, gongs, waterfalls, stone fences… extremely close and lively. To convey the above message to the public, artist Truong Van Linh depicted all those images in a space interwoven with light and dark, so although the paintings are black and white, they give everyone a very brilliant feeling of light.

Exhibition Poster.

As for the female artist Ho Thi Xuan Thu, she chose lacquer to whisper and confide in herself and everyone. “Under the shade of the Kơ nia tree” or “Back to the hometown wharf” are places where she realized she became small in front of the vast natural landscape. Therefore, in most of her works, there are tree canopies covering people with the desire to rely on them. Artist Xuan Thu skillfully took advantage of the support of lacquer material - vermilion patches along with a matre of gold, white eggshell (not polished) to intentionally create a rough, strong, majestic look like the land she lives in, making viewers awaken a source of life that is intense but harmonious, longing but gentle like the Central Highlands.

For artist Bui Van Quang, people in ordinary life or childhood memories are always an endless source of inspiration. In his works: “Doi ban” and “Duu tien” are memories recreated from the past, but still joyful and peaceful for those living in the present. And that is also the source of life flowing from the past to the present and the future - thanks to that, the emotional oil paintings of that artist have touched the hearts of viewers and revived in each person's soul the beliefs and memories that have gradually cooled down.

Dinh Doi

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