Elegance as a refuge for the pains of life
This exhibition in the Vietnam Art House in The Hague presents an important number of works of the Vietnamese painter Nguyen Thanh Binh. Born in 1954, Binh’s life was deeply influenced by the political and military events of the decolonisation and war in Vietnam. In 1954 the French army, fighting to keep Vietnam as a colony, was defeated by Vietnam communist and patriotic troops near the town of Dien Bien Phu, and was forced to leave the country.
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Elegantie als toevluchtsoord voor de pijn van het bestaan
Deze tentoonstelling in het Vietnam Art House in Den Haag presenteert een aanzienlijk aantal werken van de Vietnamese schilder Nguyen Thanh Binh. Geboren in 1954, werd Binhs leven diepgaand beïnvloed door politieke en militaire gebeurtenissen: de dekolonisatie en de oorlog in Vietnam. In 1954 werd het Franse leger, dat vocht om Vietnam als kolonie te behouden, nabij de stad Dien Bien Phu verslagen door Vietnamese communistische en patriottische troepen, en werd het gedwongen het land te verlaten.
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Sự thanh lịch như nơi trú ẩn trước nỗi đau cuộc đời
Triển lãm này tại Vietnam Art House ở La Hay giới thiệu nhiều tác phẩm tiêu biểu của họa sĩ Việt Nam Nguyễn Thanh Bình. Sinh năm 1954, cuộc đời của ông Bình chịu ảnh hưởng sâu sắc bởi các sự kiện chính trị và quân sự của quá trình phi thực dân hóa cũng như cuộc chiến tranh tại Việt Nam. Năm 1954, quân đội Pháp trong nỗ lực duy trì ách đô hộ tại Việt Nam đã bị lực lượng cộng sản và các chiến sĩ yêu nước Việt Nam đánh bại tại thị xã Điện Biên Phủ, buộc họ phải rút quân về nước. Giữa bối cảnh Chiến tranh Lạnh đang ở đỉnh điểm, Mỹ đã thay thế Pháp tiếp tục can thiệp nhằm giữ Việt Nam thuộc về "phe" phương Tây.
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Elegance as a refuge for the pains of life
This exhibition in the Vietnam Art House in The Hague presents an important number
of works of the Vietnamese painter Nguyen Thanh Binh. Born in 1954, Binh’s life was
deeply influenced by the political and military events of the decolonisation and war in
Vietnam. In 1954 the French army, fighting to keep Vietnam as a colony, was
defeated by Vietnam communist and patriotic troops near the town of Dien Bien Phu,
and was forced to leave the country. Since the Cold War was at its peak, the USA
took over the French efforts to keep Vietnam in the western ‘camp’. As is well known,
this resulted in a cruel and devastating war....
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Elegance as a refuge for the pains of life by Vietnam Art House
Art Event ‘Southern Soul’ Celebrating the 10thyear anniversary of Vietnam Art House
We are having our 10thyear anniversary of Vietnam Art House (VAH) this winter at our gallery in The Hague. The theme of the event is ‘Southern Soul’, focusing on the Solo Exhibition by acclaimed artist Nguyen Thanh Binh, together with music and talk about the heritage in the South of Vietnam.
Opening: (planned) 2020 at Medium November 2020 (By Invitation)
Exhibition: Medium November – Medium December, 2020
Venue: Vietnam Art House, Laan van Meerdervoort 89, 2517 AT, The Hague
Nguyen Thanh Binh is a special person with a special style. He is one of the few best-selling Vietnamese painters with more than 40 years of painting and thousands of artworks collected.
Binh's paintings are always full of emotion, he shows his talent in every detail and in the ability to harmonize simple colors expressively, of which the white color often plays the leading role. He is well known for his works depicting female figures wearing the white Ao Dai dress. His landscape paintings touch viewers by the simplified landscape, deep colors and light sadness. He prefers simplicity in layout, the conciseness in depiction, no appearance of many figures and colors in the paintings.
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Art Event ‘Southern Soul’ Celebrating the 10thyear anniversary of Vietnam Art House
Nguyen Thanh Binh: The Romantic Guy
Attending the opening ceremony of a northern colleague in Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thanh Binh wore honeycomb slippers with old shorts and T-shirt, shyly smiled and talked, was the right kind of person who did not want to join the crowding. Seeming to have removed all entangled ties, sparkling makeup accessories for showing off and all kinds of ordinary formality, artist Nguyen Thanh Binh is living with the spirit of 'what belonging to human is no stranger to me’. He has calmly painted and worked with the productivity of a true tenant nurtured in the inspiration of an artist, though not intentional but still naturally given the mission of tolerance, kindness...
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Nguyen Thanh Binh: The Romantic Guy
Nguyen Thanh Binh Short Introduction
Artist Nguyen Thanh Binh is a special person with a special style, and a simple, open-minded and sincere personality. He is one of the few best-selling Vietnamese painters with more than 40 years of painting and thousands of works collected.
Binh's paintings are always full of emotion, he shows his talent in every detail and in the ability to harmonise simple colors expressively, of which the white color often plays the leading role. The art critic Thai Ba Van once commented: 'The white color of Nguyen Thanh Binh seems out of the real life which is noisy and harsh. The image of Nguyen Thanh Binh's painting is not leaning to the objective world but introverted. There is a bit of Eastern breath'.
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Nguyen Thanh Binh Short Introduction
Life
Still remember, the miserable but pure childhood passed gently, and then the hard and heroic youth also retreated to the past. And now, the strenuous and passionate middle age slowly put us on the threshold of old age.
It is said that ‘Bad soil produces sweet fruits. But it must be a powerful tree, with a desire for life and a need for luck.
Binh's painting is that kind of fruits. At first glance, his paintings are as gentle as if the artist has lived a life full of love. Looking carefully at the paintings, viewers can realize that artist try his best to release life emotions for himself and for everyone.
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Life By by Tran Luan Tin
Nguyen Thanh Binh Biography
A Biography about artist Nguyen Thanh Binh and his curriculum
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Nguyen Thanh Binh Biography
“In life, whoever can transform a fragile, ephemeral aspect of human emotion into immortality, that person is an artist’
The inspiration for the Ballerina theme ... originated from the times when he took his daughter to the dance class 'Little Stars' by Dang Hung - Vuong Linh and the excellent teacher Kim Dung nearly 10 years ago...
Like as music, traditional and classical values are the eternal roots of all creative tendencies, like as the great tree, the art sprouts many branches, boughs, rises to the sky from the ground...
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“In life, whoever can transform a fragile, ephemeral aspect of human emotion into immortality, that person is an artist’
Deep And Silent Space Nguyen Thanh Binh
Deep and silent…the space in Nguyen Thanh Binh’s works is etherealized. Persons and things – visual
objects – are detached from their ‘context’ and repositioned in a dreamland without perspectives and
horizons. On this background of illusory reality, colours are reduced into white or yellowish patches, and
the black contours of a girl’s hair often appear in only a few strokes of the brush.
The dissolution ofthings into the background space rends the work similar to ‘a vocal harmony’, sparsely marked by the acute redness of an apple or candlelight as points of emphasis. The light, as if obstructed by translucent
glass, is diffused over the whole composition. Nguyen Thanh Binh describes this characteristic of his
paintings. To make whiteness, which is basically not a colour, capable of all gradations, vibrate into
infinity, and to make flat and monotonous space immense or bottomless in the imagination of viewers…’
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Deep And Silent Space Nguyen Thanh Binh By Thien Lang