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| Viewers at the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum during the contemporary Bridge exhibition. — VNS Photo Le Lam |
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Bridge paintings exhibition opens in Da Nang
DA NANG — An exhibition titled Chiec Cau (Bridge) is open to the public with 35 paintings and multimedia installation works by American artist Mark Cooper and French-Vietnamese artist Vu Trong Thuan at the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum.
The exhibition, which opened on March 20 and will run until April 20 at 78 Le Duan Street, marks the 44th Anniversary of the city’s Liberation Day (March 29).
Mark Cooper is an international recognised artist known for large-scale and site-specific installations. He had major exhibitions at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, Yuan Art Museum (Beijing, China), Lesley University (Cambridge, England), Street Museum (South Korea), Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, the Corcoran Museum, Butler Institute of American Art (US), the City Museum of Paris (France), the Westlicht Museum (Austria) and in over one hundred individual and group international exhibitions.
French-Vietnamese Thuan, who lived in France for 32 years, has settled in Da Nang since 2012 to create large-scale abstract paintings with lacquer and mixed acrylics. Thuan has also opened a gallery, La Tour Eiffel Studio, on the banks of the Han River, as a rendezvous for Vietnamese artists. — VNS
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| Art works displayed at the Bridge exhibition in Da Nang. — VNS Photo Le Lam |
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