Dao Hai Chau, Dinh Phong open an exhibition together

Dao Chau Hai is one of the leading sculptors of Vietnam after the renovation period. Graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts (Russia) named after the famous VI Surikov, having experienced teaching positions, art management, and sculpture activities of Dao Chau Hai have achieved the most achievements. determined in many different materials and also experienced many trends, from realism and expression to the trend of geometric abstraction and conceptual art in recent compositions. In the Vietnamese sculpture scene, he is a pioneer and has many innovations in metal sculpture, inspiring a whole generation of young artists.

In exhibition Together this time, Dao Chau Hai will introduce some works in his latest series of stone sculptures. This series is made from recent sketches as well as many years ago, they are studies of form, space and volume with typical abstract geometric style of Dao Chau Hai and very suitable for this series. suitable for medium sized stone material (from 1.5m or less).

One of the remarkable technical experiments this time of Dao Chau Hai is the use of CNC punching machines at different levels for each specific work, sometimes he keeps a part of the unfinished volume. , sometimes the random surface left by the drill bits, the final machining parts are determined by the subjectivity and objectivity of different rocks: yellow sandstone, black, white, gray granite …

For artist Dinh Phong, this is his third exhibition. The previous two were solo exhibitions Flying people and surreal dreams (Hanoi in November 2020) and Surreal dream (HCMC, 4/2021).

Art critic Nguyen Quan once commented on the world Dinh Phong: “What amazes me is that the practice mind is definitely professional, there is no transition like the majority of self-study. With a rational mind. Dinh Phong’s metaphysics immediately fell into the trendy genre – classical is abstract.It seems that he has memorized the principles of form of this genre, so there is no problem in shaping the picture surface. three-dimensional space, connecting lines, changes of blocks and shaping rhythms are very mature, well-thought out”. Dinh Phong’s paintings have attracted the attention of the public right from the moment they were first introduced to the public in the capital.

In this third exhibition, in addition to large-scale paintings which are new sculptures of Dinh Phong, complex complex chains of overlapping ceramics and copper metal are created with the aim of achieving harmony. unifying the inner world and the formal language, using art as a means of expressing oneself to the world, even if it is bewildering and chaotic with unanswerable metaphysical questions about life and art.

Love Le