'Deep Valley' depicts the beauty of Ha Giang through oil paintings

The exhibition Deep Valley displays 26 works out of a total of 36 oil paintings printed on canvas about Ha Giang , bringing images of the simple life of the H'Mong people in Meo Vac district. The event will take place from April 20 to 27 at Bao Phan Modern Art (No. 3, Street 18, Quarter B, An Phu Ward, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City).

Deep Valley is Tran Nguyen The's narrative about Ha Giang land.

The beauty of land and people of Ha Giang

Tran Nguyen The shared: "The exhibition will introduce stories about the land and people of the Ha Giang highlands, a place that has left many of my emotions during more than 10 years of attachment. I love this land, spent many years completing the series of paintings and always thought that I would have to introduce those works to the public..., then thought of choosing paintings so that the audience would feel like they were coming to visit, see the paintings and chat, then would 'display' them online, announcing my brainchild over the past few years, thinking about it also liked it, so I was determined to do it".

Highland Market

The deep valley focuses on 3 subjects, which are landscape with works: Snow and rain, Morning dew on the top of the stone maze, Lo Lo Chai village...; daily life scenes: Plowing path on the stone field, In front of the house, Highland market ... and human beauty: Two sisters, baby, charm...

Through vibrant colors and graceful strokes, Tran Nguyen The breathes life into his works, depicting the distinctive beauty of women and innocent H'Mong children, or the undulating rock ranges, the lush green forests, and the villages hidden in the mist...

Typically, in the work Highland Market , Tran Nguyen The simulated a year-end market of the Meo Vac people, with images of Mong girls in colorful costumes, strong young men going to the market to eat thang co or a corner of agricultural products that people get from villages - a place where goods are exchanged between the lowlands and the highlands.

From Ho Chi Minh City, remembering the homeland's frontier

Some works in the exhibition

Each painting is a story, a perspective that the author recreates through the time he lived and worked in this land...

In 2006, while he was an elementary art teacher in Tuyen Quang Town (now Tuyen Quang City), he learned that Xin Cai Ethnic Boarding Secondary School (Meo Vac District, Ha Giang Province) was short of teachers, so he applied. At that time, he lived in the dormitory for teachers at the school, teaching art and physical education to the children there.

During this time, he did not consider himself a guest. In the misty mornings, he and the villagers waited for water from the rock crevices, carried water back, and then went to pick vegetables to cook for the boarding students; in the afternoons after teaching, he had to clean up the classrooms filled with rocks and soil due to landslides; in the evenings, he went to the middle of the valley to watch the stars at night... On weekends, he walked several kilometers from one village to another to encourage students to come to class. After more than 10 years of attachment, he was loved by the people, who often gave him vegetables, corn, or smoked meat and invited him to visit their homes. Therefore, although he had to be far from home, family, and friends, he always felt the warmth of the gentle, kind, and hard-working people in this highland area.

Looking at the paintings about to be exhibited, he confided: "From Ho Chi Minh City, I remember the homeland's frontier, where the people (the Mong people) always have a latent vitality. In the midst of the vast rocky mountains, people have worked hard to intercrop crops in the rocky holes, and in places where there is a lack of soil, they carry soil into the holes to plant trees... Admiring that spirit, this exhibition is like a word of gratitude I send to the people in the highlands, and at the same time hope that readers across the country will share more with the people in the highlands of Ha Giang."

Tran Nguyen The was born in 1980, from Ha Nam , and grew up in Tuyen Quang. He graduated with a major in oil painting from the Central University of Fine Arts in 2004. From 2005 to 2019, he taught fine arts at primary and secondary schools. From 2019 onwards, he painted art and worked freelance. Tran Nguyen The has been a member of the Tuyen Quang Provincial Literature and Arts Association since 2007, a member of the Ha Giang Provincial Literature and Arts Association from 2008 to 2016, and a member of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association since 2016.

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