HOPE FULL - Pham Huy Thong’s solo exhibition in Craig Thomas gallery Saigon 2018
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Exhibition dates: 2 - 21 November 2018
27i Tran Nhat Duat Street, Tan Dinh Ward, Dist.1, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
Galery hours: 11-6pm Monday - Saturday
12-5pm Sunday
HOPE -solo exhibition by Pham Huy Thong at Craig Thomas Gallery, Saigon 2015
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Craig Thomas Gallery is pleased to announce Hope, a solo exhibition of paintings by Vietnam-based artist Pham Huy Thong. The cocktail reception opening of Hope on 11 December will also double as the grand opening of CTG’s second gallery space in Ho Chi Minh City. CTG’s second gallery is located at 165 Calmette Street in the central business district of Saigon.
Pham Huy Thong (b. 1981) is one of Vietnam’s most thoughtful and compelling young visual artists. A talented painter, Thong’s previous collections Dong Bao (2010) and Hands (2012) have demonstrated not only his technical finesse but also his relevance as a commentator on the social and polictical issues effecting Vietnam and the Southeast Asian region.
Thong commenced the Hope series in early 2014 with an aim towards focusing on issues relating to Vietnam’s rural farmers and urban poor. The
artist wishes to highlight how Vietnam’s recent process of urbanization and modernization has created and is exacerbating the gap between rich and poor in the country. Of the Hope series, Thong says:
“I want to portray images of famers in a spiral of economic changes. As in all developing economies, farmers in Vietnam have had to flee their homes and fields to get to the cities where they can find jobs and more secure incomes. As a result, village culture and family clan ties thousands of years in the making have been loosened. In my most recent paintings, I want to look more deeply but also more generally at the issues surrounding the process of a farmer leaving his ancestral village.The development of any big city actually involves the amalgamation and absorption of the diverse influences of its neighboring regions and can sometimes be understood in a way that is quite “mechanical.” Viewed through a cultural lens, the exchanges during migration involve accretions. Each person that leaves their village will bring to their new destination some of their homeland’s own distinctiveness or “local flavor.” In economic terms,
however, there is more of an exchange between rural people and their destination cities. These people go to the cities to find work and do not return until harvest time or when asked to return home to perform an important familial duty that cannot be refused. Bringing energy, time and even happiness to the city to sell, farmers purchase the chance of survival for their families. The exchange here can sometimes be conceived of as a form of “bet” when viewed from a psychological and religious perspective. By analyzing the observable factors, I want to touch on the string of connections between country people and the homelands lying behind them. With the three paintings Land for Sale, Hometown Along, and Homeland Burden, I have not incorporated the destination that these country people are heading towards as I did not want to make a choice between the image of an actual city or some happy abstract shore. Instead, I painted them in orientations of movement while still carrying pieces of their home villages with them. Home is the departure point but it is also something which is burdening them throughout their journeys. They go with the hopes of being able to send money back to their families, but in the process they also lose something of themselves and their roots in the effort to make their bread and butter.”
Pham Huy Thong graduated from the Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts University in 2004. Thong’s Hope collection will be displayed at CTG’s new Calmette space from 11-15 December, and then will be moved and displayed at CTG’s original space (27i Tran Nhat Duat Street, District 1) from 16 December through 8 January 2016.
Opening Reception: Friday, 11 December 2015
Exhibition Dates: 11 December 2015 – 8 January 2016
Location: (from Dec 11th to Dec 15th): Craig Thomas Gallery - 165 Calmette Street, Nguyen Thai Binh Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
(from Dec 15th to Jan 8th): Craig Thomas Gallery - 27i, Tran Nhat Duat, Tan Dinh ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh city.
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[Craig Thomas Gallery] - Installation of Tran Nhat Duat - April 2016
Please see the above video for a view of the works by a number of our favorite artists that we are currently showing at our TND space. CT Gallery TND is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 12-6pm and otherwise by appointment.
Founded in Ho Chi Minh City in 2009, Craig Thomas Gallery represents numerous award winning contemporary Vietnamese artists working in painting, sculpture and mixed media. CTG gallery space HOSTS a regular series of curated exhibitions of emerging and mid-career Vietnamese artists, and has recently opened a second gallery space at 165 Calmette Street near the HCMC Fine Arts Museum.
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[Craig Thomas Gallery] Space outside and inside CTG Tran Nhat Duat April 2016
Please see the above video for a view of the works by a number of our favorite artists that we are currently showing at our TND space. CT Gallery TND is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 12-6pm and otherwise by appointment.
Founded in Ho Chi Minh City in 2009, Craig Thomas Gallery represents numerous award winning contemporary Vietnamese artists working in painting, sculpture and mixed media. CTG gallery space HOSTS a regular series of curated exhibitions of emerging and mid-career Vietnamese artists, and has recently opened a second gallery space at 165 Calmette Street near the HCMC Fine Arts Museum.
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[CRAIG THOMAS GALLERY] Tet Installation at CTG 165 Calmette Street, District 1
Tet Special Installation
Happy Year of the Monkey to everyone!
CT Gallery will be openly slightly reduced hours during the Tet holiday period. From 5-14 February, CTG Calmette will be open from 12-6 every day.
CTG Tran Nhat Duat will be open only by appointment during the Tet period.
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Chúc Mừng Năm Mới Bính Thân!
CT Gallery sẽ vẫn mở cửa trong kì nghỉ Tết nhưng hạn chế thời gian hơn. Từ 5-14 tháng 2, CTG Calmette sẽ mở cửa từ 12-18h mỗi ngày.
CTG Trần Nhật Duật sẽ mở cửa nếu khách đặt lịch hẹn trước trong kì nghỉ Tết.
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- Otherwise by appointment, call Craig at 0903 888 431 or Thư at 0937 112 341
[Craig Thomas Gallery] Solo Exhibition: Morning in The Mountains - Bình Minh Trên Núi
MORNING IN THE MOUNTAINS - BÌNH MINH TRÊN NÚI
25 March - 21 April 2016
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Craig Thomas Gallery is pleased to announce Morning in the Mountains, a solo exhibition of mixed media paintings by Hanoi-based artist Nguyen The Hung.
Born and raised in Tuyen Quang Province in the north-eastern corner of Vietnam, much of Nguyen The Hung’s work is influenced by the cultures and traditions of the many ethnic minority groups that populate the mountains of his native region. Of his inspiration for the Morning in the Mountains series Hung says, “The idea for this collection was born from a volunteer project to teach drawing to children in the Ha Giang Highlands that I participated in two years ago. While teaching the kids some basic skills, we teachers in turn learned from them a pure way of seeing things that we had possibly forgotten.
“In this series I have concentrated on observing and depicting the Dao and H’mông ethnic groups. Their individual portraits, marked by a mixture of cheerfulness and shyness, made a strong impression on me. I observed with fascination and delight the way that they live in deep communication with the natural world that surrounds them. “
Perhaps best known for his use of do paper in many of his earlier collections, the twelve works of Hung’s Morning in the Mountains collection are an experimental combination of various styles including action painting, do paper, traditional lacquer painting, and vibrant coloration from contemporary art. The artist used a mix of materials including acrylics, Chinese ink, gold leaf, “cockroach” lacquer paint, and photographs for the series. Hung took special care in reproducing each pattern and accessory on the traditional clothing of the ethnic groups depicted.
Hung says, “I was confused with by the intense emotions the people of the mountains engendered in me. They live their lives immersed in nature. The way that they eat and drink is etched in my mind. Their charming way of speaking and unique colloquialisms echo through my thoughts; like happy musical notes. I felt that only an action painting style could fully express the joy, excitement and vitality of these special people.”
With his latest work, Hung once again displays the unique and appealing aesthetic first demonstrated in his well-received 2011 collection And Flowers Showered. Most impressively, he evidences his determination to explore new materials, subjects and modes of expression as part of his continuing evolution as a visual artist.
Nguyen The Hung graduated from the Hanoi Fine Arts University in 2009. Morning in the Mountains is his fourth solo exhibition with Craig Thomas Gallery. In addition to his work as a visual artist, Hung has also has participated in various different projects in music, dance, theatre and fashion. The artist lives and works in Hanoi.
Craig Thomas Gallery - Exhibition “Fading Memories” of Nguyen Minh Nam artist
FADING MEMORIES - KÍ ỨC NHẠT NHOÀ
Nguyen Minh Nam (b. 1978) is a graduate of the Vietnam Fine Arts University. This is his first solo exhibition at Craig Thomas Gallery.
Of his work Nam says, “In the process of living the life of a young artist in Vietnamese society during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, I have closely observed the cultural lifestyle of the country’s youth. I have also studied and contrasted the present with the culture and lifestyle of previous generations.
“The majority of my works reference cultural issues. In my opinion, there is a great clash between traditional and modern Vietnamese culture which has yet to reach a place of balance. In my paintings, some of the characters are drawn in black and white. They belong to the earlier generation which was very simple, rustic, unobtrusive and straight-forward. They may have been farmers or simple city folk, but they had very rich spiritual lives.
“The young ladies portrayed in my paintings carry the spirit of contemporary Vietnamese life which can be seen as being in stark opposition to the more modest conventions of the previous generation. I do not wish to take a stand between these two conflicting cultural paradigms, however, because both have their pros and cons.”
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Exhibition Dates: 21 October – 12 November 2016
Location: Craig Thomas Gallery, 27i Tran Nhat Duat, Tan Dinh Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
[CRAIG THOMAS GALLERY] Lim Khim Katy Art Studio 1 (By Koala K)
See Ka Ty's artworks at CT Gallery:
Lim Khim Katy, the Vietnamese artist and her studio in Saigon. Katy like the song Feeling Good by Escala It reflects my feeling toward life the most and the first song is To train together by Jans A.P Kaczmarek so match to the feeling I have on this video.
And a quote saying from her professor :
Space and time in Katy's paintings are the transformations from the physical to the spiritual and then to art and The perspective of the artist Lim Khim Katy takes toward art is the perspective Meditation takes towards life.
Vice-Professor Tran Van Phu(HCMC Fine Arts University)
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CTGs Tet Special 2019 - Triển lãm Tết 2019
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Exhibition dates: 25 January - 25 February 2019
Location: Craig Thomas Gallery, 27i Tran Nhat Duat Street, Tan Dinh Ward, Dist.1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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[CRAIG THOMAS GALLERY] VIỆT NAM TRONG TIM TÔI Sơn BOSS tài trợ Phần 2
TV Show - Vietnam in My Heart with Director of Craig Thomas Gallery.
[Craig Thomas Gallery] On Display April 2017
Featuring new works from Lim Khim Ka Ty, Ngo Van Sac, Le Thuy, and amazing works of some of our most established artists Tran Minh Tam, Phuong Quoc Tri, Bui Thanh Tam, Pham Huy Thong, and Nguyen Minh Nam, etc.
Installation at CTG 27 i Tran Nhat Duat, District 1, HCMC
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Pham Huy Thong - One Country exhibition in Craig Thomas gallery 2015 06
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CTG 6th Anniversary Exhibition
“One Country” – Friday, 26 June from 6-9pm
Opening Reception: 26 June 2015, 6 - 9 pm
26 June - 25 July 2015
Craig Thomas Gallery is pleased to announce its 6th anniversary celebration with One Country, a group exhibition featuring works from fifteen Vietnamese young and mid-career visual artists.
Vietnam’s three most prominent fine arts academies are located in Hanoi, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City respectively. Aspiring artists tend to gravitate to the institution that is nearest to their hometown and to continue their career in one of the three cities after their graduation. The result is a trifurcated Vietnamese national art scene which arguably leads to a sum that is less than the whole of its parts.
Beginning in 2011, CTG began introducing a mix of young Hanoi artists into our regular program of exhibitions. Aspiring to contribute to the creation of a single Vietnamese art scene, we will now be integrating Hue-based artists into our program over the coming months and years. The One Country collection – featuring works from artists based in all three centers – is the beginning of that process.
Please use this link to see images of all of the works of the One Country collection.
Opening reception: Friday, 26 June 2015, from 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition dates: 26 June – 25 July 2015
Location: Craig Thomas Gallery
27i Tran Nhat Duat
Tan Dinh Ward, District 1, HCMC
[CTG] Le Thuy - Where is the Place of Peace Redux - Ở Đâu Là Chốn Bình Yên 9-22/6/2017
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Exhibition Where is the Place of Peace Redux by Hanoi-based artist Le Thuy has returned at Craig Thomas Gallery 27i Tran Nhat Duat.
Address: 27i Tran Nhat Duat, Tan Dinh Ward,
District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
Opening hours: 11am - 6pm Mon - Sat
12pm - 5pm Sunday or by appointment
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Triển lãm Ở Đâu Là Chốn Bình Yên của hoạ sĩ Hà Nội Lê Thuý đã trở lại tại phòng tranh Craig Thomas 27i Trần Nhật Duật.
Địa chỉ: 27i Trần Nhật Duật, phường Tân Đinh
Quận 1, Tp Hồ Chí Minh
Giờ mở cửa: 11:00 - 18:00 Thứ 2 - thứ 7;
12:00 - 17:00 Chủ Nhật hoặc theo lịch hẹn
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Survival - Sự Tồn Tại - Nguyễn Minh Nam artist - Craig Thomas Gallery
Solo exhibition by #nguyenminhnam at #craigthomasgallery #hochiminhcity
Craig Thomas Gallery - Behind The Scene of House of Nguyen Exhibition
Opening Reception: Friday, 28 July 2017, 6-9pm
Exhibition Date: 28 July - 26 August 2017
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The first time art lovers and collectors became familiar with Tran Minh Tam’s portrayal of royal characters from the past was in 2013, when he introduced his House of Nguyen I series at Craig Thomas Gallery. The Nguyen Dynasty has a long line of historical personages who, according to the artist, “are already very famous in Vietnamese history.” Even so, during the four years between House of Nguyen I and today, Tran Minh Tam never stopped conducting research on Vietnam’s final dynasty. He continues to produce art through the medium of wood, oil and lacquer as a means to make tangible his research; thus comes his latest series House of Nguyen II in 2017.
In its essence, House of Nguyen II is part of Minh Tam’s continuing effort to capture a royal past that is now far removed from the memory of most modern Vietnamese. But in all fairness, Tam is not just an artist inspired by history. On the micro level, he seeks to achieve accuracy through attention to minute details such as the anatomy or the clothing of his characters; something he accomplished successfully in the first series. However, he has since experimented much further with story-telling, maneuvering different aspects of a painting from the obvious use of characters to the subtle hints found in decorative devices.
The legacy of the House of Nguyen is felt most strongly today in the city of Hue; its imperial capital from 1802 to 1945. On mutiple visits to the ancient city, Tran Minh Tam never ceases to marvel at the magnificently complex royal architecture from the emperors’ time. “The relation between human and landscape is irrefutable. In a way I feel a profound melancholic longing for the now-absent human presence that used to occupy those spaces.” Tran Minh Tam instinctively tries to fill the void of those uninhabited spaces, but saying Tam relies solely on mythical narratives from his research to do so would be incomplete.
Straying away from their political legacies, a version frequently told in mainstream history textbooks, the artist honors his royal subjects by emphasizing their human experiences, which include the universal emotions of grief, love, and loss in order to instill an empathetic wonder in the viewer. King Duy Tan and Madame Ho Thi Chi exemplifies this method and even shifts the typical focus from the emperors to make central an ostensibly peripheral female character. While emperor Duy Tan is only portrayed as a shadow over her shoulder, Madame Ho Thi Chi catches the eye in her green gown and in the gentle embrace of a peacock. The peacock has always been a symbol of elegance, grace and virtue, and was believed to be the manifestation on Earth of Fenghuang, the mythological bird that controls all celestial bodies. The painting demands of the viewer sympathy for the tragic life of a dignified woman whose virtue, intelligence and beauty could not save her from being a victim of her time.
“Perhaps this series can be understood as a modern reckoning with our history,” says the artist reflecting on the House of Nguyen II collection. Looking forward, Tran Minh Tam wants to challenge himself with even more ambitious projects, such as painting the earliest emperors of the Nguyen Dynasty, with folk art being the only available source for references, or the wedding of emperor Bao Dai and empress Nam Phuong. Before that tantalizing third installment, join us at Craig Thomas Gallery on the House of Nguyen II journey back in time, and admire Tam’s unique technique of mixing oil and lacquer to portray iconic figures from Vietnamese history.
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Lần đầu tiên công chúng yêu nghệ thuật và các nhà sưu tập biết đến những tác phẩm vẽ chân dung vua chúa nhà Nguyễn của hoạ sỹ Trần Minh Tâm là vào năm 2013, khi anh ra mắt triển lãm cá nhân Nhà Nguyễn I tại Craig Thomas Gallery. Những nhân vật hoàng gia nhà Nguyễn, theo Minh Tâm, “đã quá nổi tiếng trong lịch sử Việt Nam rồi.” Tuy vậy, trong suốt bốn năm hậu-Nhà Nguyễn I, Tâm vẫn miệt mài sưu tập tư liệu về triều đại cuối cùng của Việt Nam. Và kết quả từ những khảo nghiệm, tìm tòi đó là bộ tranh Nhà Nguyễn II năm 2017, được sáng tạo trên chất liệu gỗ cùng sự kết hợp giữa sơn dầu và sơn mài truyền thống.
One Country - Group exhibition - 6th Anniversary of Craig Thomas Gallery
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One Country - group exhibition
Opening Reception: 26 June 2015, 6 - 9 pm
26 June - 25 July 2015
Location: Craig Thomas Gallery - 27i Tran Nhat Duat, Tan Dinh ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh city.
[Craig Thomas Gallery] On Display March 2017
Featuring works from our most established artists including Ngo Van Sac, Tran Minh Tam, Phuong Quoc Tri, Bui Thanh Tam, and award-winning artist Nguyen Minh Nam, etc.
Installation at CTG 27 i Tran Nhat Duat, District 1, HCMC
Tranh đang trưng bày tại CTG 27 i Trần Nhật Duật, Quận 1, Tp HCM
Gallery Hours
11:00 - 18:00 on Mondays through Saturdays, 13:00 - 17:00 on Sunday or by appointment call 0903 888 431
Giờ Mở Cửa
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[CTG] ETHEREAL - THIÊN TIÊN by Nguyễn Quốc Trung
Installation of Ethereal Exhibition at CTG. Opening reception: Friday May 5 from 6 - 9pm.
Tranh trưng bày cho triển lãm Thiên Tiên của hoạ sĩ Nguyễn Quốc Trung tại CTG. Tiệc khai mạc hôm nay thứ 6, 5/5/2017 lúc 18 - 21h tại 27i Trần Nhật Duật. Trân trọng kính mời!
Talking Art Vietnam Part 2 - Artist Pham Huy Thong
Artists in Vietnam have a big advantage. We are living in a goldmine of issues”. So says artist Pham Huy Thong in this Rusty Compass video. Thong is one of Vietnam’s most exciting young artists. Born in Hanoi, Thong joined a long line of artists who have left Vietnam’s Capital to make Saigon home. I had a chat with Thong at Craig Thomas Gallery in Saigon where some of his work is on display.
Viet Nam _ Saigon _ Art Exhibition ( May. 20th , 2017 )
A Nice Exhibition In Saigon , those artist from diffrent areas in Vietnam but have the same passion about looking for the beauty , painting .. are in the group names 5+ , welcoming more members who love painting ... each individual artist has him, her characteristic , we can see through their paintings .... The same but diffrent ....the diffrence make the life worth living .. it make art more colorful ...
( About the museum that used to arrange the exhibition is the old building from French colonization , the owner is the Vietnamese , he has a little bit Chinese .. He in one of the very successful businessmen in Saigon at that time , maybe this is the first building has elevator , the architect , the designs , decorations are very French ... so very easy to visualize its wealth , luxury ...) .
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