Music Night with The Anello (Hong Kong) + Taylor Moore and The Young Buffalos (Hanoi)

Fri 08 Nov 2014, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

The Anello: a music collaboration based in Hong Kong featuring vocalist Jeff Anello and Michal Garcia on trumpet, keys and electronics.

HK 2-piece bring electronic-brass vibes with influences that range from hip hop to synth-pop.

Their members have been featured around Asia including performances at Clockenflap, The Hong Kong Art Fair, City Jazz Festival and the Hai Yang Music festival in China, but this is their first time to play in Hanoi!

Support will come from local band The Taylor Moore + The Young Buffalos, who play Americano blues style!

Entry VND 80,000   

1 Year Anniversary of The Observatory

07 and 08 Nov 2014, 6 pm

The Observatory

Corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung, Dist.1, HCMC

The Observatory is turning 1! Yes! It’s been a full year of very fun, interesting and exciting times since we first opened our doors to the city last year, and to celebrate there’s a massive weekend of music planned for your enjoyment.

Spread over two nights, both floors will host a huge cross-section of local and international DJs whose sounds are going to ensure this party doesn’t stop jumping(!)

Lineups

FRI 7TH

>> VISA [Cliché Records / HK]

>> BOOGIE G [Preduce / BKK]

>> HIBIYA LINE [Cliché Records, VN]

>> OCTAVE [Harmonic Station / SA]

>> STARCHILD

>> JOEY T

>> DAN LO

>> DJ OUCH!

SAT 8TH

>> KENTARO TANIGUCHI [Burek, Mugic / SG]

>> JAN HAGENKOETTER [Infracom, jazznotjazz / DE ]

>> 1DAN [Batti Batti / UK]

>> NIC FORD [Millions of Moments / UK]

>> EMILY JEANNE

>> EL CAPITAN

>> ELIA

>> HIBIYA LINE

Film Screening “Los Otros” (The Others)

Sun 09 Nov 2014, 7.30 pm

La Bicicleta

44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Welcome to the screening of a 2001 horror-thriller film Los Otros (The Others) (2001, 101 mins).

About the film

Los Otros (The Others) is a 2001 horror-thriller film written, directed and scored by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Nicole Kidman and Fionnula Flanagan.

It won 8 Goya Awards, including awards for Best Film and Best Director. This was the first English-language film ever to receive the Best Film Award at the Goyas (Spain’s national film awards), without a single word of Spanish spoken in it.

Free entrance.

Language: English

Music Night with Heavy Tiger (Sweden) and The Offensive (Vietnam)

Sun 09 Nov 2014, 8.30 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

Smash up this Sunday night with chic Stockholm three piece, Heavy Tiger! All attitude, girls, guitars and old school rock ‘n’ rock supported by Hanoi’s very own buzzy prices of punk, The Offensive.

HEAVY TIGER

This three piece chic band apart from Stockholm, Sweden, is doubtlessly both an impressive and unique act. Don’t get caught mistaking them for being just a jangly mismatch of young girls and guitars. You’d be embarrassingly dead wrong. Because this is for real! This is as good as rock ‘n’ roll gets!

Heavy Tiger is the outcome of one pure mission in the mind of guitarslinger & singer Maja Linn: to form a Killer Rock ‘n’ Roll Band! Premium songs, unique style, uncompromising live performances and true ambitions were the ingredients to build it all upon. No band member was allowed to be short of dedication, or talent for that matter. Luckily this crazy rock ‘n’ roll heart eventually found her sisters in arms. Drummer Astrid Carsbring and Sara Frendin on bass, both truly good musicians, were just the right people to team up with. They soon became close friends as well and Heavy Tiger was a fact.

Through these years they have played a lot of shows all over Scandinavia and some in the UK, always to the amazement and delight of the audience. Some say The Runaways in their heydays, but think KISS meets Thin Lizzy delivered by The Clash and you would probably be closer. Honestly, their songs are addictive and their dedication on stage unmistakable. It shows that it’s all from the heart and delivered from the hip. In other words the only way it can be done, to be done right.

When you hear it, you’ll know it! Don’t have to figure it out.

Ticket price: 100,000 VND at door

Workshop 4 with Curator Tran Luong

Sat 08 Nov 2014, 3 pm

Nha San COLLECTIVE

2nd floor, 24 Ly Quoc Su, Hanoi

Stages of Sensitivity is the title of workshop series jointly held by Artist/Curator Tran Luong and Nha San Collective.

Each workshop imposes further requirement on endless possibilities of human senses.

Following these 3 workshops, workshop 4 will have 3 main types of practice:

a/ continuous interaction between two individuals.

b/ analyze stages of sensitivity of languages​​.

c/ analyze auditory perception and sound. Combined with minor practice on light and heat…

About artist Tran Luong:

Tran Luong has long been a leader and one of first curators in the Vietnamese artistic community. Being co-founder of Nha San Studio, Hanoi and a member of the famous Gang of Five, Tran focuses much of his time and energy on helping young artists tease out their ideas and eventually bring those ideas to fruition and exhibitions.

Tran Luong has been curator for many exhibitions including LIMDIM in The Stenersen Museum, Oslo Norway, RIVER SCAPE, the exhibitions in Goethe Institute placed in ASEAN countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia… and Singapore Biennale 2013,…

Recently Tran Luong has been awarded Prince Claus Award for his pioneering work in culture and development.

Exhibition “2014 Fine Arts”

Opening: Mon 03 Nov 2014, 5 pm

Exhibition: 04 – 07 Nov 2014

Fine Art Exhibition Center

29 Hang Bai, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi

You are invited to the exhibition titled “2014 Fine Arts”.

The exhibition will showcase 52 artworks by 20 lecturers of Hanoi Architectural University who are also painters, sculptors and architects.

These artworks express the lecturers’ desire to develope career and passion for art through insightful stories as well as astute life observation. The personal style featured by each lecturer/artist contributes to the whole picture of feelings and emotions.

Jazz Night with Quyen Van Minh & Band “East Meets West”

Wed 05 Nov 2014, 9 pm

Barbetta

No 2 Ngo Huyen, Hoan Kiem Dist, Hanoi

You are invited to Jazz Night with Quyen Van Minh & Band “East Meets West” featuring Western jazz standards & jazzy interpretations of Vietnamese compositions.

The special part about this show is the jazzy interpretation of some famous Vietnamese songs such as Beo dat may troi, Trong com by the band as well as the performance of Quyen Van Minh’s own compositions such as Ngau hung Sapa, Ngay hoi lang…

Artist of Merit Quyen Van Minh is considered by many to be the first jazz saxophonist of Vietnam. Throughout his 40 years of music career, he has performed in many concerts inside and outside Vietnam, at the same time, met and played with some of the most promient jazz musicians in the world, including piano legend Herbie Hancock. With an immense love and passion for jazz, Quyen Van Minh and his son, jazz saxophonist Quyen Thien Dac have played an important role in developing and popularizing this music genre in Vietnam.

Free entry. Please email to [email protected] to reserve the best seat! You are kindly requested to inform us your name, your handphone number, number of yours, what time you will be at our place… in order to have perfect preparation. Your seats will be holded until 8.40pm.

Without registration, you can still attend the event but you may have to stand due to limited seats available!

Exhibition “Come to [what] End?”

Opening: Thu 06 Nov 2014, 6 pm

Artist talk: Thu 13 Nov 2014, 6.30 pm

Exhibition: 06 Nov 2014 – 05 Feb 2015

Sàn Art

3 Mê Linh

District Bình Thạnh, HCMC

You are invited to exhibition ‘Come to [what] end?’ by Pham Dinh Tien, Rudy Atjeh, and Nguyen Tran Nam. This is the ‘San Art Laboratory: Session 5’ final exhibition resulting from an intensive 6 month residency, with each artist intrigued with distinct local social histories and tragic recent global disasters.

Pham Dinh Tien ponders the idea of ‘fate’ – sudden events occur in our lives that are out of our control. Inspired by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 incident, Tien’s sculpture and installation compel us to see ourselves as the passenger in the flights that can potentially go awry. How can we be prepared for the unexpected? Is it possible that our need for control in contemporary life is but an illusion?

Rudy Atjeh is fascinated by the visual similarities between text and pronunciation of the naming of Vietnam’s Champa Kingdom, compared to the Jeumpa Kingdom of Aceh (his hometown in Indonesia). He rediscovers a part of history of where he grew up, and weaves the narrative into an intricate and graceful paper-cutting work.

With Nguyen Tran Nam, while questioning if death is the ultimate punishment for a crime or a glorified act of sacrifice, he recognizes the weight of belief in the conscience of a deathly act (be it personal conviction, religious or political). His sculptural works question how we determine what is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the act; the answer may lie on how we choose to believe in its justification.    

Traditional Handicraft Bazaar

Sat 08 Nov 2014, 5 – 9 pm

Sun 09 Nov 2014, 9 am – 4 pm

RENAISSANCE Riverside Hotel

8-15 Ton Duc Thang, Dist 1, HCMC

The Traditional Handicraft Bazaar is an unique experience of the year in Ho Chi Minh City to view the finest art and tribal culture of the far-northern ethnic minorities of Vietnam.

Your journey to deeply discover the culture and art of hill tribes will start from beautiful products of ethnic artisans to how they are made. Stories that never told behind handicraft will be shared. Diverse steps of productions such as spinning, weaving, painting patterns with beeswax and hand embroidering will be performed by ethnic women. You can also try it! Ethnic artisans will be happy to teach you.

More than a commercial shopping occasion, the organizers of the Bazaar are seeking fund to help ethnic minorities in areas that are scarce of water having better access to water.

You will also have time to enjoy traditional songs, dance and music of hill tribes from Cao Bang. This is a good chance to learn some dance move of hill tribes and dance with them. It will be fun!

Free entrance.   

Exhibition Winter Galleria

Exhibition: 06 Nov 2014 – 05 Feb 2015

Sàn Art

3 Mê Linh

District Bình Thạnh, HCMC

You are invited to exhibition of fantastic new work, never before seen in Saigon, by four established local artists: Phan Quang, Phunam, Lena Bui and Tran Minh Duc.

Phan Quang’s sculptural installation of light and bamboo, titled ‘Red Stone’, speaks of social balance and belief, questioning what kind of heart can be freely nurtured in today’s world. Phunam’s photographic ‘Patination’ takes inspiration from the urban streets of Saigon, where walls peel and crumble revealing a layered history of hidden agendas and secrets. Lena Bui’s drawings map the chaotic order of Saigon’s street traffic. Tran Minh Duc’s tourist postcard collages of ‘classic’ Vietnam carries his signature ‘pink’ crystal which refers to ‘ Pomacea Canaliculata’ or apple snail eggs that were officially imported into Vietnam in the 1980s, believing them desirable by the domestic consumer market – these snails were later listed as one of the most dangerous invasive species in Vietnam.    

Exhibition “WOMAN: Dialogue and Monologue”

Exhibition: 30 Oct – 30 Nov 2014

Maison des Arts

22A Hai Ba Trung Str, Hanoi

You are invited to exhibition on the theme “WOMAN: Dialogue & Monologue”. The exhibition presents 38 paintings in variety materials: oil painting, lacquer, ceramics and alluvial soils of the Red River.

The exhibit gathers 21 artists:

15 male artists: Do Van Binh, Bui Quang An, Pham Ha Duy Khanh, Nguyen Hong Phuong, Nguyen Van Ho, Nguyen Xuan Hoang, Nguyen Duc Phuong, Tran Dan, Doan Hoang Lam, Doan Son, Nguyen Van Tuan, Luu Vu Long, Nguyen Cam, Pham Tuan Tu, Tran Dinh Binh

6 female artists: Phuong Binh, Nguyen Thi My, Ngo Hai Yen, Bui Suoi Hoa, Kim Thai, Nguyen Thuy Duong

Melting Pot 6: Art & Music Festival

08 and 09 Nov, 12 pm – 11 pm

Saigon Outcast

188/1 Nguyen Van Huong, Thao Dien, Dist 2, HCMC

First of all, we are super excited for the return of Melting Pot: Art and Music Festival at Saigon Outcast! For those who don’t know, Melting Pot is an incredible weekend that gathers the Saigon community, both locals and expats, to celebrate talent and creativity for a good cause.

This is a community event that happens twice a year and invites everyone in Saigon to showcase and share their talent in music, dance, cooking, art, and more!

All proceeds go to our initiatives. Half of the funds raised will be donated to Saigon Children’s Charity and the other half will be used to restore/renovate public schools and facilities for children in District 2.

If you would like to be part of Melting Pot on Nov 8-9, we are looking for the following:

- Volunteers: Production team, entrance booth, crew

- Artists/Bands

- Dancers

- Performers of any kind

- Photographers

- Vendors

- Graffiti artists

- Art exhibitions

Please also let us know here or email [email protected] if you would like to sign up.

At this Melting Pot we are introducing a theme. Our theme is ‘Celebration of Cultures’. This will be a great weekend to embrace the different countries that we all represent and get to know a little bit more about different cultures. Come to the festival representing your home country or maybe your favorite country! This city is so diverse it’s time we celebrated it.

Entry: 100,000 VND (minimum donation)

Half of the funds from the previous Melting Pot has been assigned to restoring the public pool in An Phu, which is mostly used by kids for swimming lessons.

Workshop Creative Documentary Level-2 with Jamie Maxtone-Graham

Deadline: 03 Nov 2014

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

You are invited to the workshop titled Creative Documentary Level-2 with Jamie Maxtone-Graham at Hanoi DOCLAB. We would select a small group of filmmakers to apply specialized techniques in a particular project. The workshop activities including screening and analyzing finished works definitely brings practical experience for potential filmmakers.

When: Every Sat – 10 weeks – From Nov 2014 – Jan 2015

Where: DocLab, Goethe Institut Ha Noi 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

Cost: 1,500,000 VND // (have discounted 75%)

Class: 10-12 people

Instructor: Jamie Maxtone-Graham worked for more than 20 years as a cinematographer in New York and Los Angeles on feature films, commercials, documentaries and episodic television. He has a long list of film credits internationally, in Vietnam and the region.

Deadline for registration: 03 Nov 2014 (early registration, early interview)

Please fill out and send the Registration Form, along with your CV and ideas to [email protected] titled: “workshop level 2 registration-FULL NAME”

Link to Registration Form

If you’re interested in getting news, announcements from DOCLAB for its activities, workshops, and schedule of film screenings, etc., please email us at [email protected] to subscribe to DOCLAB news.

Flute Recital with Nguyen Ly Huong

Sat 08 Nov 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to the classical flute recital with Nguyen Ly Huong – First Prize for wooden trumpet concerto at National Chamber Music Spring Competition and First Prize at the 1st International Flute Contest in Nanning (China).

Ly Huong began her career as a flutist in 2000, at the age of 10.  Since 2006, she has received numerous awards and performed at hundreds of national concerts with Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra from Vietnam National Opera and Ballet, Symphony Orchestra from Hue Academy of Music. The flute recital will feature famous compositions by Chaminade, Honegger, Prokoviev and Dring at L’Espace.

Program:

A. Honegger : Danse de la chèvre.

Pièce chinoise: Night flute.

C. Chaminade: Concerto for flute and piano Op. 107

S. Prokofiev: Sonate for flute D Major Op. 94 (mouv. 1 et 2).

- Moderato

- Scherzo

M. Dring: Trio for flute, oboe and piano.

- Allegro

- Andante semplice

- Allegro giocoso

Attending artists:

Flute: Ly Huong; Oboe: Hoang Tung; Piano: Thai Linh

Tickets

Ticket price: 160 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 80 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

KOTO Bike Ride 2014

Sat 08 Nov 2014, 6 am

Son Tinh Camp, Ba Vi, Hanoi

KOTO Bike Ride is a annual fundraising event of KOTO, where all proceeds will be used to support the continued work of providing hopes and brighter future to at-risk and disadvantaged youth in Vietnam.

Have you been waiting for the Hanoi’s best bike ride event of 2014?

Join 2014 KOTO BIKE RIDE to participate in the most exciting ride on Saturday, November 08th in support of at-risk and disadvantaged youth through KOTO training program!

KOTO Bike Ride aims to raise fund for KOTO to cover the rental expense of training centres and housing for 200 trainees for 01 year.

Our 50km charity cycle route will head to the west of Hanoi capital and take us to the beautiful Dong Mo Lake where the last 10 minutes of your ride will be taken by boat. Upon arrival, we will have time to explore leafy forests on the island, enjoy fruit-picking or take a dip in the fresh water of Dong Mo Lake.

The warm hospitality and continuous cheering of KOTO staff and trainees will accompany cyclists throughout the ride and will spur on even the most tired cyclist. The ride will conclude with a hearty meal serving by our thankful trainees.

For more information and register, please email [email protected] or call Ms Ngân (093 221 2390) or Mr Long (0986 52 6068).

Screening of Film “Amitiés Sinceres”

Fri 07 Nov 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to the film screening “Amitiés Sinceres” (France, 2012, 104 mins) directed by Stéphan Archinard, François Prévot-Leygonie. A funny, sensible and insightful comedy movie which successfully cultivates happiness in friendship and love.

For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Ticket price: 40 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Special Film Program of the Science Film Festival 2014

Fri 07 Nov 2014, 6.30 pm

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

You are invited to the screening of “When Björk Met Attenborough” and “Biophilia” – two extraordinary Films about Music, Nature and Technology, in the framework of Science Film Festival 2014.

What happens when an award-winning musician meets a legendary broadcaster and naturalist, and they start to investigate and discuss the connection which exists between music and nature?

Islandic experimentalist singer Björk and naturalist Sir David Attenborough have admired each other’s work for years but this is the first time they have discussed their mutual love of music and the natural world on screen.

In this remarkable documentary “When Björk Met Attenborough”, Björk explores our unique relationship with music and discovers how technology might transform the way we engage with it in the future. David Attenborough explains how music exists in the natural world and speaks about his own passion for music.

This unique documentary is followed by the screening of Björk’s cutting-edge music project “Biophilia” that explores where nature, music and technology meet.

Program

6.30 p.m: documentary film “When Björk Met Attenborough”

7.15 p.m: tea break

7.30 p.m.: music documentary film “Biophilia”

Exhibition “Beautiful Handicrafts of Tohoku, Japan” in Hanoi and HCMC

HCMC:

Opening: Fri 31 Oct 2014, 9 am

Exhibition: 31 Oct – 10 Nov 2014, 9 am – 6 pm

The Exhibition Hall (Ho Chi Minh City Museum)

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Hanoi:

Opening: Fri 12 Dec 2014, 6 pm

Exhibition: 12 – 22 Dec 2014, 8.30 am – 4.45 pm

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, in cooperation with Consulate-General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City, proudly present a travelling exhibition “Beautiful Handicrafts of Tohoku, Japan” from 31 October – 22 December in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

Supervised by curator Ryuichi Matsubara “Beautiful Handicrafts of Tohoku, Japan” is an exhibition planned to mark the March 11 anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. The Tohoku region, known for its beautiful mountains and seascapes as well as its rich local culture and history, suffered damage and destruction of unprecedented proportions. Much was lost, and manufacturing and handicraft culture were hard hit. People in local areas affected by the disaster, however, have been working closely together to rebuild, intent on restoring peace and normality to their lives as soon as possible.

The displays present works of mingei members included Kanjiro Kawai, Shoji Hamada, Keisuke Serizawa and Shiko Munakata with various genres—ceramics, lacquerware, textiles, metalwork, wood and bamboo crafts, etc.—allowing visitors to enjoy the diverse and exquisite world of Tohoku traditions.

The works included in the exhibit present an opportunity to discover anew the high level of traditional craft techniques nurtured in the Tohoku region and the functional beauty of daily implements used since ancient times in Japan. The art and craftsmanship of these works also help us to better appreciate the folk wisdom derived from lives lived close to nature and the manual skills and dexterity cultivated out of that wisdom.

It is our hope that viewers will enjoy the undeniable beauty and the highly developed handicraft techniques of Tohoku craftsmanship products.

This exhibition will travel to Ho Chi Minh City from 31 October – 10 November at Exhibition Hall (92 Le Thanh Ton, District 1), and Hanoi from 12-22 December at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum (66 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh).

Free admission.

Israeli Film Festival 2014

In Hanoi: 01 – 05 Nov 2014

National Cinema Center

87 Lang Ha Str, Hanoi

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In HCMC: 06 – 10 Nov 2014

BHD Star Cineplex ICON68

Bitexco Building, 2 Hai Trieu, Ben Nghe, HCMC

Israeli Film Festival 2014 will take place in Hanoi and HCMC. The festival will bring local audience 5 carefully selected films with many exciting, touching and inspiring moments that will offer a window to Israeli cultures, lives, and experience.

Film Schedule in Hanoi

1 Nov 2014

8 pm: Foreign Letters

- Exclusive for guests in the opening screening

2 Nov 2014

+ 6 pm: Foreign Letters

+ 8 pm: Broken Wings

3 Nov 2014

+ 6 pm: Something Sweet

+ 8 pm: The matchmaker

4 Nov 2014

+ 6 pm: Someone to run with

+ 8 pm: Broken Wings

5 Nov 2014

+ 6 pm: The matchmaker

+ 8 pm: Someone to run with

Film Schedule in HCMC

6 Nov 2014

8 pm: Foreign Letters

- Exclusive for guests in the opening screening

7 Nov 2014

+ 6 pm: Foreign Letters

+ 8 pm: Broken Wings

8 Nov 2014

+ 6 pm: Something Sweet

+ 8 pm: The matchmaker

9 Nov 2014

+ 6 pm: Someone to run with

+ 8 pm: Broken Wings

9 Nov 2014

+ 6 pm: The matchmaker

+ 8 pm: Someone to run with

Detail about films in Israel Film Festival 2014

Ticket

Free admission for everyone. The opening screening in Hanoi (01 Nov) and HCMC (06 Nov) exclusive for guests. We hope for your understanding.

To receive the ticket:

+ In Hanoi, please contact: Ms. Lý Thu Hương. Tel: 0989586820, email: [email protected] (at least 3 days prior to the screening).

+ In HCMC, free tickets will be distributed at BHD Cineplex ICON 68, Bitexco ICON68, no. 2 Hai Trieu, Dist 1, HCMC in one day: Sun 01 Nov 2014 (at 9 am)(please contact Mr.Trần Trương Quang, Tel: 0909692293 or Ms Bảo An, Tel: 0913213114 for more information)

Playday – Playground in the City

Sun 02 Nov 2014

American Club

19–21 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi

Welcome all the children and parents come to Playday/Playground in the City. A Free Playground within one day for the children to have fun in Hanoi.

List of activities in Playday:

1. Movement and Creative Playground

Free Admission.

Sun 02 Nov 2014, 7.30 am – 6.30 pm

(In addition to provided toys, parents could bring more to fill up the “free playground” and bring them back at the end of the event)

2. Photo exhibition “Playground in the city”

Sun 02 Nov 2014, 7.30 am – 6.30 pm

3. Improvised Installation Art in the city center

Sun 02 Nov 2014 - all the day

Somewhere alse in the city center

4. Workshop “How to make playground”

(Registration required before 24 Oct 2014)

Sat 01 Nov 2014, 2 pm – 5 pm

Exhibition “78 Rhythms” by Nguyen Huy An

Opening: Thu 30 Oct 2014, 6 pm

Exhibition: 30 Oct – 22 Nov 2014

Galerie Quynh

65 Đề Thám, District 1, HCMC

You are invited to “78 rhythms” – a solo exhibition by Hanoi-based artist Nguyen Huy An. Known for his quiet performances of transforming the most mundane and familiar of materials into simple and poetic artworks, Nguyen Huy An is among the most innovative artists of his generation. While focusing on new and recent work, the artist’s first exhibition at the gallery will also include the acclaimed work ‘The Roads’ (2007), presented in Ho Chi Minh City for the first time.

Whether measuring the streets of Hanoi’s Old Quarter with black thread, collecting dust on the Vinh Tuy Bridge, condensing the monstrous structure of a skyscraper into a humble stack of paper, or obsessively painting the same village pond for over a decade, Huy An creates a personal visual archive of memories and histories that relate to the social and political contexts of the sites he records. The artist states, ‘’In the context of a growing economy, it is important to look at and realize how modernity, and by extension the passage of time, casts shadows on our existence and engenders zones of darkness in our collective psychology.’’ Negotiating the tension between a nostalgia for nature and the inexorable juggernaut of human progress, Huy An resorts to measuring as a means of self-contraction – as an act of reifying memories and ideas, and relocating, re-contextualizing and reducing concrete structures, creating forms that appear more humanistic.

Nguyen Huy An has an artistic predilection for dark materials: the melancholic color of dark and moody spaces where the artist has lived, the black color of clothes and hair, the sadness of his grandmother, his mother, his sisters and other women in his life. Huy An’s work is, in an intricate and profound way, the color of night like the nostalgic shadows hanging over life’s ordinary objects.

ABOUT NGUYEN HUY AN

Born in 1982 in Hanoi, Nguyen Huy An is among the most dynamic and innovative artists of his generation. He has participated in a number of exhibitions and performance art festivals including Disrupted Choreographies, Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes, France (2014); If The World Changed, Singapore Biennale (2013); sounds of dust (somniloquy), 943 Studio Kunming, China (2011); Anatomy of an assembly line with an error, Nha San Studio, Hanoi, Vietnam; Lim Dim, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway (2009); Tam Ta, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2009); and the Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF), Tokyo, Japan (2007).

In 2010 Huy An co-founded with artists Vu Duc Toan and Hoang Minh Duc the performance art collective The Appendix Group (Phu Luc). The group has performed in festivals in Vietnam, Singapore and China.

Exhibition of Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art in London

‘Vietnamese Vibes: Harmonies of Space and Time”

Exhibition: 31 Oct – 08 Nov 2014

Gallery Talk and Reception: Saturday November 1 at 3 pm

Guy Peppiatt/Stephen Ongpin Gallery

6 Masons Yard, Duke St, St James’s London UK SW1V 6BU

As part of her international exhibition schedule, Raquelle Azran is once again exhibiting in the annual Asian Art in London event. This event is considered one of the most prestigious in London, and is coordinated with the British Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and Asian auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s.

Raquelle Azran is exhibiting a group show of 5 Hanoi artists working in watercolor on handmade paper and lacquer on wood: Phung Pham, Trinh Tuan and Vu Duc Trung with lacquer paintings, and Vu Thu Hien and Dinh Thi Tham Poong with watercolors on paper.

The gallery talk, Habits of Harmony in Vietnamese Fine Art, will discuss principles of harmony on several levels: within an individual artwork, among artworks within an artist’s body of work, as part of Asian philosophy and culture, and as a feature of fusion of Vietnamese and Western art. The talk will be followed by a reception, hosted by newly appointed Ambassador to the UK Nguyen Van Thao.

Autumn Mini Fair

01 and 02 Nov 2014, 9.30 am – 6 pm

Cosmo Cafe

10 Khuc Hao, Hanoi

Our Autumn Minifair gathers 13 outstanding Hanoian handmade/craft and vintage brands together and connects them with craft & vintage lovers in town. In the most friendly atmosphere you might ever find, the Minifair will take place on 01 and 02 Nov.

Beside the main event, indulge yourself in a variety of giveaways, deals and vouchers from all the participating crafts & vintage brands.

Free entrance. Parking fee for motorbike: 5,000 VNĐ.

Artist Talk by Nguyen Huy An

Sat 01 Nov 2014, 3 pm

Galerie Quynh

65 Đề Thám, District 1, HCMC

You are invited to an artist talk by Nguyen Huy An on the occasion of his current solo show ‘78 rhythms’. Nguyen Huy An will discuss the major themes in the exhibition and the experiences that have inspired his practice.

Huy An’s work is the manifestation of emotions and ideas on the materials of everyday life: a bundle of entangled thread tucked in the corner of two walls, dust and dirt stuck on the surface of a string of tapes, or plain sheets of papers stacked on top of one another. This manifestation could be manifold; sometimes it is about the tension between time and space, the past and the present, the nostalgia for nature and the inexorable juggernaut of human progress.

During the artist talk, Huy An will urge the audience to reflect on the context of a growing economy that estranges human beings from the values of life that they’ve grown up embracing. The artist states, “It’s important to look and realize how modernity, and by extension the passage of time, casts shadows on our existence and engenders zones of darkness in our collective psychology.” The artist will also touch on the connection between the North and the South and the exhibition being a presentation of Hanoi in the heart of Saigon, one that “opens up conversations on our history, our current state of being and hopefully, our future.”

Born in 1982 in Hanoi, Nguyen Huy An is among the most dynamic and innovative artists of his generation. He has participated in numerous exhibitions and performance art festivals including Disrupted Choreographies, Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes, France (2014); If The World Changed, Singapore Biennale (2013); sounds of dust (somniloquy), 943 Studio Kunming, China (2011); Anatomy of an assembly line with an error, Nha San Studio, Hanoi, Vietnam; Lim Dim, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway (2009); Tam Ta, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2009); and the Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF), Tokyo, Japan (2007).

In 2010 Huy An co-founded with artists Vu Duc Toan and Hoang Minh Duc the performance art collective The Appendix Group (Phu Luc). The group has performed in festivals in Vietnam, Singapore and China. Nguyen Huy An lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Exhibition “Corner To be Seen”

Opening: Sat 01 Nov 2014, 5 pm

Exhibition: 01 – 30 Nov 2014

Heritage Space

Dolphin Plaza, 17 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi

You are invited to the exhibition “Corner To be Seen” by painter Tran Trung Thanh.

A portfolio of 15 artworks during 9 years (from 2005 to 2014) will be featured in this solo exhibition. Not only giving strong visual impression, these paintings always raise different questions toward contemporary life, the perspective of each people, especially the youth and conflict between nature – human, violence – love, history – present. They all result from personnel-point-of-view.

Free admission.

Exhibition “Junction”

Opening: Sat 01 Nov 2014, 5 pm

Exhibition: 01 – 24 Nov 2014

Mai Gallery

3th floor, 112 Hang Bong Str, Hanoi