VietNamNet Bridge – Thirty-three artworks by Japanese artists Makoto Aoki, Hiroko Aoki, Toshiro Yamaguchi, Yumiko Nomiyama, Kinya Nakatami and Aki Miwa are on display together with 42 pieces by late Vietnamese artist Tran Trung Tin at the HCMC Fine Arts Museum.

Visitors at the exhibition ‘Japan-Vietnam Contemporary Art Exhibition 6+1’ at HCMC Fine Arts Museum.

The Japan-Vietnam Contemporary Art Exhibition 6+1 exhibition, which is expected to bolster cultural exchanges between the two countries, brings a new perspective on contemporary art of Japan and Vietnamese oil paintings of the 1970s. Vietnamese visitors may be amazed by different styles and materials used by the visiting Japanese artists.

For over 20 years, Yumiko Nomiyama has been making the series ‘Ki’ – which means breathing and energy of the universe in the English language – to express the universe for bodily sensation. The blueness and greenness mixed harmoniously make visitors get lost in an endless space to discover their own inner world.

Poetry is an inspiration for Aki Miwa to paint abstract ones in bright and vivid colors. Meanwhile, Hiroko Aoki uses dark and grey color layers to depict the extension of man’s feelings. Unshaped lines of Toshiro Yamaguchi evoke curiosity for viewers, pulling their emotions in myriad lines and challenging their perception of the contemporary art trend.

Kinya Nakatami depicts the border between the outside and inside of humanity via an installation made of yellow fabric, which urges visitors to quest on the real inside they have and the fake outside they carry. Makoto Aoki takes visitors into peace and nostalgia in slight spaces.

Paintings by Tran Trung Tin, whom The Independent voted as the best artist in Vietnam, are abstracts and portraits of Vietnamese women that present a glimpse into Vietnamese art in the twentieth century.

The exhibition runs until July 27 at the museum, 97 Pho Duc Chinh Street, District 1, HCM City.

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