sketch Doãn Hoàng Lâm biography After graduating from the Hanoi Cinematography & Theatre University in 1993, Doan Hoang Lam who was born in 1970 continued his education at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts. After graduating in 1999 he emerged onto the Hanoi art scene in the early 2000s as an excellent abstract and expressionist painter, whose interest lies in depicting and (dis)figuring the human body and psyche. At times aggressive and dark, others sensual and alluring, the human figures in Lam’s work seem to both appear and disappear, their parts dismantled and reassembled, their whole buried and exhumed. Not one to accept the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style, Lam has recently expanded his practice to incorporating elements such as light boxes and X-ray scans into his works, transforming them from static paintings into constantly shifting environments. works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Nude Sketch (2023) DOÃN HOÀNG LÂM 2023 29.7 x 21 cm charcoal and color pencil on paper Enquire works Sketch #2 (2024) DOÃN HOÀNG LÂM 2024 29.7 x 21 cm chalk and charcoal on paper Enquire works Sketch #1 (2024) DOÃN HOÀNG LÂM 2024 29.7 x 21 cm Ink on paper Enquire related Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects The dreamer: heterotopia, tabula rasa, noble silence (a part of ongoing project 0395A.ĐC) Through the looking glass what's going on at Manzi Tình See more October 5, 2025 Tình See more October 4, 2025 Bắt mặt | Catching Faces See more October 4, 2025 Tình See more October 3, 2025 Artist Talk vs Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai See more September 27, 2025 Art Tour | Những Vệt Mờ / Faint Traces See more September 10, 2025 Những Vệt Mờ | Faint Traces See more September 6, 2025 Between the Strings See more August 5, 2025 sóng vỗ cát trời | the sky, the sand, the lashing waves See more August 1, 2025 Nguyên (âm) đơn See more July 20, 2025

sculpture Vũ Kim Thư biography Thu Kim Vu was born in 1976 in Hanoi, graduated her BFA from Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 1999, Vietnam and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States in 2003. Focus on line drawing, paper material and using temporary spaces, she had been working on different projects through traveling to create a new experience based on how her line drawing changing the atmosphere of each space. Thu has been participated in a number of residencies worldwide including Vermont Studio Center (USA) Goyang National Art studio, (Korea), Sanskriti Kendra, (India), KuenstlerdorfSchoeppingen (Germany), Mc Coll Center of Visual Art (USA), Rockefeller Bellagio Center (Italy), Museum of Contemporary Art, A Coruna ( Spain)…which contribute a great influence in shaping her works into many directions. In recent years, Thu was interested in Japanese culture and her studies of Washi paper leads her to new experimentation with paper sculpture and lighting based on her current experience in three residencies in Japan: Kamiyama Artists in Residence Program, Mino Paper Art Village and Sapporo Artist in Residence Program. Her current work is the project in progress with miniature landscape drawing using the free form of light sculpture influence from the lantern Art in Japan combine with her brushstrokes of ink. works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Daydreaming stroll no. 4 VŨ KIM THƯ 2024 17 (L) x 16 (W) x 14 (H) ink, washi paper, dzo paper & lightbulb Enquire works Daydreaming stroll no. 2 VŨ KIM THƯ 2024 23 x 16 x 39 cm (L-W-H) ink, washi paper, dzo paper & lightbulb Enquire works Long television VŨ KIM THƯ 2023 24 x 11 x 7 cm ink, dzo paper & lightbulb Enquire works Daydreaming stroll no. 3 VŨ KIM THƯ 2024 24 x 15 x 31 cm (L - W- H) ink, washi paper, dzo paper & lightbulb Enquire works Daydreaming stroll no. 1 VŨ KIM THƯ 2024 21 x 16 x 30 cm (L - W - H) ink, washi paper, dzo paper & lightbulb Enquire related Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects The dreamer: heterotopia, tabula rasa, noble silence (a part of ongoing project 0395A.ĐC) Through the looking glass what's going on at Manzi Tình See more October 5, 2025 Tình See more October 4, 2025 Bắt mặt | Catching Faces See more October 4, 2025 Tình See more October 3, 2025 Artist Talk vs Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai See more September 27, 2025 Art Tour | Những Vệt Mờ / Faint Traces See more September 10, 2025 Những Vệt Mờ | Faint Traces See more September 6, 2025 Between the Strings See more August 5, 2025 sóng vỗ cát trời | the sky, the sand, the lashing waves See more August 1, 2025 Nguyên (âm) đơn See more July 20, 2025

oil/acrylic Maritta Nurmi biography Maritta is a Finish artist who had lived in Hanoi from 1993 - 2019. Her 26 years in Vietnam, together with an education in Finland both in natural sciences and visual arts have merged into an alchemist-like metallurgic experimentation in painting. Maritta equally enjoys exploring other genres of art, including ceramic art, wearable art, public art and community based art projects, as well as experiments with different mediums including painting on canvas, wooden or metallic objects, ceramic, oxidation of metal and fashion design, progressing from two dimensional to three dimensional formats. Her shuttling between different realms builds up new ways of expression and it generates vigour. Consequently, regardless of the medium or the imagery, the content in her art mostly stirs up energy and motion. In her works, Maritta is blurring the border between abstract and realist. Her use of ornaments and patterns adds layers of ritual, time and history. She has been showing widely in Asia, Europe and North America. works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Floors & Flora 3 MARITTA NURMI 2020 29,6 x 42 cm acrylic on paper Enquire works Floors & Flora 1 MARITTA NURMI 2020 29,6 x 42 cm acrylic on paper Enquire works Stripes on copper MARITTA NURMI 2019 34 x 50 x 5(H) cm acrylic on copper Enquire works Floors & Flora 2 MARITTA NURMI 2020 29,6 x 42 cm acrylic on paper Enquire works Roses on copper MARITTA NURMI 2019 34 x 50 x 5 (H) cm acrylic on copper Enquire related Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects The dreamer: heterotopia, tabula rasa, noble silence (a part of ongoing project 0395A.ĐC) Through the looking glass what's going on at Manzi Tình See more October 5, 2025 Tình See more October 4, 2025 Bắt mặt | Catching Faces See more October 4, 2025 Tình See more October 3, 2025 Artist Talk vs Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai See more September 27, 2025 Art Tour | Những Vệt Mờ / Faint Traces See more September 10, 2025 Những Vệt Mờ | Faint Traces See more September 6, 2025 Between the Strings See more August 5, 2025 sóng vỗ cát trời | the sky, the sand, the lashing waves See more August 1, 2025 Nguyên (âm) đơn See more July 20, 2025

Lê Giang & Lê Hoàng Bích PhượngA duo show by LÊ GIANG & LÊ HOÀNG BÍCH PHƯỢNG 02.03 - 15.03.2014 Above Under Sky - March 15, 2014 March 2, 2014 Lê Giang & Lê Hoàng Bích Phượng Including a series of simple but intriguing installations and drawings, ‘Above Under Sky’ by visual artists Lê Giang (Hanoi) and Lê Hoàng Bích Phượng (HCMC) transformed the space of manzi, urging the audience to find out the real layers hidden behind every single artworks. Slightly different from her previous artworks which were deftly painted in subtle watercolours tones, this time, Lê Hoàng Bích Phượng brings us her latest creations in human shapes - all are vague, colourless but reflecting the insentience of mankind. In connection to Phượng's, Lê Giang’s artwork is also an exploration into the multi-layers of personal conflicts, to find out the answer for her question “What is a perfect world?” Using the hole as symbol of an entrance to another world, Giang has tried to create an imaginary realm within the everyday, to make possible the utopian. *This event is supported by the Prince Claus Fund & the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) of the Danish Embassy. ARTWORKS GALLERY OPENING NIGHT See more about artist(s) Lê Hoàng Bích Phượng

mixed media Nguyễn Kim Tố Lan biography Born in 1982 in Ho Chi Minh City, Lan graduated from the Ho Chi Minh Fine Art University in 2005. She is actively engaged in both the local and regional art scenes as a multimedia artist, organiser of art events and independent curator. Lan’s notable exhibitions include: ‘Goodbye to the 40th Anniversary of the Vietnam War’ -Chicago, US, ‘Hoan hô – Bravo’ - Hanoi, Vietnam, ‘Imkmi’ - Tokyo, Japan, ‘Voi de Nuit | Nightflight | Bay đêm’ – Ho Chi Minh City, ‘The Walker’ Ho Chi Minh City, ‘Nửa bầu trời’ - Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, ‘Blink’ - San Art, Ho Chi Minh City works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Mental cube (the right-hand version) NGUYỄN KIM TỐ LAN 2022 9 x 5 x 3,5 cm (sculpture) & 24,5 x 56 cm (painting) clay sculpture & color pigments on paper Enquire related Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects The dreamer: heterotopia, tabula rasa, noble silence (a part of ongoing project 0395A.ĐC) Through the looking glass what's going on at Manzi Tình See more October 5, 2025 Tình See more October 4, 2025 Bắt mặt | Catching Faces See more October 4, 2025 Tình See more October 3, 2025 Artist Talk vs Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai See more September 27, 2025 Art Tour | Những Vệt Mờ / Faint Traces See more September 10, 2025 Những Vệt Mờ | Faint Traces See more September 6, 2025 Between the Strings See more August 5, 2025 sóng vỗ cát trời | the sky, the sand, the lashing waves See more August 1, 2025 Nguyên (âm) đơn See more July 20, 2025

Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai biography works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Enquire related Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects The dreamer: heterotopia, tabula rasa, noble silence (a part of ongoing project 0395A.ĐC) Through the looking glass what's going on at Manzi Tình See more October 5, 2025 Tình See more October 4, 2025 Bắt mặt | Catching Faces See more October 4, 2025 Tình See more October 3, 2025 Artist Talk vs Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai See more September 27, 2025 Art Tour | Những Vệt Mờ / Faint Traces See more September 10, 2025 Những Vệt Mờ | Faint Traces See more September 6, 2025 Between the Strings See more August 5, 2025 sóng vỗ cát trời | the sky, the sand, the lashing waves See more August 1, 2025 Nguyên (âm) đơn See more July 20, 2025

lacquer Nguyễn Trần Cường biography works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Cat & Narcissus flowers NGUYỄN TRẦN CƯỜNG 2024 30 x 60 cm lacquer Enquire works Pavilion NGUYỄN TRẦN CƯỜNG 2020 20 x 30 cm watercolor on paper Enquire works Cat #1 NGUYỄN TRẦN CƯỜNG 2022 28 x 37 cm ink & watercolor on paper Enquire works White Camellia NGUYỄN TRẦN CƯỜNG 2024 42 x 60 cm lacquer Enquire works Pumpkins NGUYỄN TRẦN CƯỜNG 2020 30 x 20 cm watercolor on paper Enquire works Cat #2 NGUYỄN TRẦN CƯỜNG 2022 28 x 37 cm ink & watercolor on paper Enquire related Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects The dreamer: heterotopia, tabula rasa, noble silence (a part of ongoing project 0395A.ĐC) Through the looking glass what's going on at Manzi Tình See more October 5, 2025 Tình See more October 4, 2025 Bắt mặt | Catching Faces See more October 4, 2025 Tình See more October 3, 2025 Artist Talk vs Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai See more September 27, 2025 Art Tour | Những Vệt Mờ / Faint Traces See more September 10, 2025 Những Vệt Mờ | Faint Traces See more September 6, 2025 Between the Strings See more August 5, 2025 sóng vỗ cát trời | the sky, the sand, the lashing waves See more August 1, 2025 Nguyên (âm) đơn See more July 20, 2025

Nguyễn Trinh Thia sound & video installation by Nguyen Trinh Thi 47 Days, Sound-less - November 24, 2024 October 22, 2024 Nguyễn Trinh Thi 47 Days, Sound-less | A version for Hanoi 22.10 - 24.11.2024 11.00 AM - 07.00 PM (Tue - Sun) Manzi Exhibition Space, 2 ngõ Hàng Bún, Ba Đình, Hà Nội Free Entrance Deep in a wild forest, a man was wandering, he was stranded with no recollection or clues about his past. The village of indigenous people living there took him in… Adopting such an open fictional structure, Trinh Thi’s installation weaves together sound, moving images and texts from various sources, creating a space with more intuitive cues conducive to multi-sensory experiences beyond just seeing / watching/ reading. The visual elements of ‘47 Days, Sound-less' are derived from existing footage: cutout images of natural landscapes used as backdrops and uncredited local natives used as extras in Hollywood and Vietnamese movies, interspersed with Trinh Thi’s own recordings of the Jarai people from Vietnam’s Central Highlands. These re-constructed, re-contextualized imageries are framed within the textual fragmented narration based on Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction stories. ‘47 Days, Sound-less’ challenges the conventional idea of visuality and overturns the standard hierarchy in modes of sensing and perceiving, which ultimately determine which reality is present and central. Foregrounding what used to be in the background and the consequent ambiguity—in both what to see & what to know (as the pieced-together visuals are mostly abstract and grainy, while the story structure is loose and unclear with many missing details)—allows for a space to re-attune our senses. In such a context of departure from a logically-based and visually-oriented norm, the formlessness and invisibility of sound prevail. With the echoing and all-encompassing power, sound shapes a new order, one centered on hearing and listening. Using real sonic materials of nature combined with tunes produced by traditional indigenous musical instruments imitating the sounds of the forest, this installation questions the visual dominance in our modern perception and knowledge construction, as well as provokes reflections on boundaries and ecology, and reveals a non-human-centered perspective. ‘47 Days, Sound-less' also proposes a new method to see and experience the moving image as an installation, a type of ‘expanded cinema’. Utilizing a system of mirrors that reflect the fragments of footage onto diverse directions in space, Trinh Thi explores the idea of peripheries by deliberately disrupting the central line of sight, thus expanding our visual field to what is hidden or out of sight. This attempt does not undermine the power of seeing but highlights the often overlooked limitation and deficit of it. Our sensory abilities are inherently flawed and restricted, whereas the possibilities of existence are indefinite and boundless. There always exists ‘the unknown, the invisible and the inaccessible' —an alternate/parallel reality, a more-than-human world. The work is commissioned by the Han Nefkens Foundation, Mori Art Museum, M+ Hong Kong and Singapore Art Museum ARTWORKS GALLERY 47 Days, Sound-less 2024 Video, three screens and mirror Video: three-channel projection, 16:9, 16:9 and 5:2 aspect ratios, black & white & color, sound (stereo), 30 mins With texts extracted and adapted from: ‘City of Illusions’ - Ursula K. Le Guin (1967) ‘Vaster than Empires and More Slow’ - Ursula K. Le Guin (1971) ‘The Word for World is Forest’ - Ursula K. Le Guin (1972) Sound and video extracted and sampled from: Chung một dòng sông (1959) Vợ chồng A Phủ (1961) Vĩ tuyến 17 Ngày và Đêm (1972) Bài ca ra trận (1973) Deer Hunter (1978) Apocalypse Now (1979) Platoon (1986) Hamburger Hill (1987) Casualties of War (1989) Dien Bien Phu (1992) Rescue Dawn (2006) Rừng Đen (2008) Footage by Jamie Maxtone-Graham & Tạ Minh Đức, Field recordings by Nguyễn Trinh Thi Sound recordings of “And They Die a Natural Death” (Nguyễn Trinh Thi, 2022) “Sound-Less” (Nguyễn Trinh Thi, 2023) Vietnamese translation by Nguyễn Hoàng Thiên Ngân & Nguyễn Trinh Thi _____________________ >>> Exhibition Catalogue for 47 Days, Sound-less presented at the Singapore Art Museum (12 January–14 April 2024) READ HERE OPENING NIGHT See more about artist(s) Nguyễn Trinh Thi

William Crawforda photography exhibition by American photographer William Crawford Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting - May 20, 2023 April 26, 2023 William Crawford 18 street life photos taken from 1985-2015 by William Crawford. William Crawford was one of the first photographers to gain access to postwar Vietnam in 1985 and he continued to return at regular intervals for a period of thirty years. As an American witnessing the devastation and sorrow of war he was compelled to show the humanity that coexists with deep suffering. Sensitive to the subtle nuances of everyday life and the customs of the people in this exotic land, he documented the life of the Vietnamese as it evolved over three decades. The artist became entranced with the streets of the old quarter in Hanoi which revealed all manner of arts and crafts and the traditional lifestyles of the Vietnamese. Revisiting the same sites repeatedly gave the artist entrée into intimate moments in time as the country shifted from a post war mentality struggling to advance to a thriving metropolis emerging as a model for economic growth in SE Asia. As he worked over the years the photographer formed friendships with the local people as they went about their daily lives. With the years passing over 3 decades, his photos became a diary of one man’s efforts to reconcile with the past and heal the wounds of war with the simple humanity of acknowledging the dignity of the human spirit. Tender intimate moments in life, a bodybuilder toning his physique, young men sharing confidences over a cup of tea, the beauty of a dedicated altar honoring all that came before, become testimony to the strength of the human spirit and the ability to overcome great adversity with compassion, love, and insight. All of the photos were shot on film which also highlights the transition of a time-honored medium that makes way for the digital age, just as the landscape of the city itself must make way and yield to the current times. Suzanne Lecht ARTWORKS GALLERY OPENING NIGHT See more about artist(s)

Phạm Thái Bình Thái Nhật Minh Khổng Đỗ Tuyền Hoàng Mai Thiệp Phạm Đam CaExperimental sculpture show by NEW FORM group 10.10 - 04.11.2014 New Form: Sculpture - Architecture - Space - November 4, 2014 October 10, 2014 Phạm Thái Bình Thái Nhật Minh Khổng Đỗ Tuyền Hoàng Mai Thiệp Phạm Đam Ca “New Form: Sculpture – Architecture – Space” is curated by Nguyen Anh Tuan with the participation of sculptors Phạm Thái Bình, Thái Nhật Minh, Khổng Đỗ Tuyền, Hoàng Mai Thiệp and designer Phạm Đam Ca. The exhibition is an activity in New Form project phase II, 2014 - 2015. NEW FORM is an experimental sculpture project, which aims to overcome stereotypes of traditional sculpture and to open up new directions in thinking and creative possibilities of this art form. NEW FORM was founded by sculptors living and working in Hanoi with the desire to develop their career and to find new creative directions as well as experience a professional working environment. In phase II, New Form project aims towards the connection of sculpture works with architectural living space in reality. The dialogue characteristics between the artworks are placed in the communicative ability with architecture, interior, and usage of that space. This dialogue has created special challenges when sculptures aren’t just dealing with its traditional inner relation such as shapes, materials, surfaces, colours, and aesthetics… but also with the correlation between sculpture and architectural space in the shape and function. This has to do with the environment, light, air, time, weather, the available context, and the changeable context as well as with the viewers’ behaviours and attitude to arts. As it isn’t just purely for the visual satisfying display, art has transformed into an intervention, intrusion and being parallel with movements, feelings, psychologies in everyday life activities. * The show is supported by the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) of the Danish Embassy. ARTWORKS GALLERY OPENING NIGHT See more about artist(s) Thái Nhật Minh Phạm Thái Bình

lacquer Nguyễn Tuấn Cường biography Born in 1978 in Hanoi and graduated from Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Arts in 2001, Nguyễn Tuấn Cường is known as one of the most respected contemporary lacquer painters in Vietnam today who thoroughly practice on this traditional medium. His poetic still- life lacquer paintings tell viewers a subtle relation between the object and its surrounding space; yet depict an obscure reflection of time flows. Cường currently works as a lecturer at the Art & Craft College of Vietnam where he plays a very important role in the development of the college’s Lacquer training programme. Nguyễn Tuấn Cường has participated in a wide range of exhibitions in Vietnam and overseas ie France, UK, Taiwan, China, Switzerland. He now lives and works in Hà Đông, Hà Nội works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Remnants of sunset NGUYỄN TUẤN CƯỜNG 2024 45 x 40 cm lacquer Enquire works Slipped-away Season *a little darkness in the ‘ripe’ autumn NGUYỄN TUẤN CƯỜNG 2021 90 x 60 cm lacquer Enquire works Light & Dark NGUYỄN TUẤN CƯỜNG 2024 60 x 60 cm lacquer Enquire works ... a tiny glimmer sparks, in the centre of all - encompassing grey NGUYỄN TUẤN CƯỜNG 2021 90 x 60 cm lacquer Enquire related Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects The dreamer: heterotopia, tabula rasa, noble silence (a part of ongoing project 0395A.ĐC) Through the looking glass what's going on at Manzi Tình See more October 5, 2025 Tình See more October 4, 2025 Bắt mặt | Catching Faces See more October 4, 2025 Tình See more October 3, 2025 Artist Talk vs Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai See more September 27, 2025 Art Tour | Những Vệt Mờ / Faint Traces See more September 10, 2025 Những Vệt Mờ | Faint Traces See more September 6, 2025 Between the Strings See more August 5, 2025 sóng vỗ cát trời | the sky, the sand, the lashing waves See more August 1, 2025 Nguyên (âm) đơn See more July 20, 2025

Nguyễn Tuấn Cườnga solo exhibition by Nguyễn Tuấn Cường Fragments of Nostalgia - August 9, 2021 July 9, 2021 Nguyễn Tuấn Cường ‘Fragments of Nostalgia’ features Nguyen Tuan Cuong's latest lacquer works, continuing his signature series of still life paintings. Overstepping its own boundaries of the familiar serenity and stillness, Cường’s practice this time has gone further than the subtleties in the technique or the poetry in the representation. The lyricism has become more demanding while the narrative gets more compelling, ‘Fragments Nostalgia’ uncovers the interrelationships in space and time, provides the reflection on presences and absences, shapes and shadows in liminal space. This exhibition is part of Manzi’s art programme supported by the Goethe Institut. ARTWORKS GALLERY ABOUT 'FRAGMENTS OF NOSTALGIA’ - A writing for exhibition by artist Oanh Phi Phi A lacquer painting is the sum of two parts— the building up of paint and symbols and the sanding away. How much to reveal by sanding away is the most essential and thoughtful decision as an author. In Nguyễn Tuấn Cường’s paintings, we are inside an intimate and dusky interior. Forms seem to come into view but stay buried under the penumbra of Son ta. The layers of then and canh gian lacquer become deep space while small still life objects are merely there to delineate the empty space within them and anchor our gaze. These domestic bowls, jars, and lanterns transport us to a time in the past of oral traditions. Looking at the paintings I am reminded of such stories as 'Chuyện người con gái Nam Xương' . In this tale when the father goes away to war the mother comforts their young son nightly by telling him her casted shadow is his father. The paintings are like the intimate moment before mother lights the candle and “father” appears. This light would be a reverie and psychological comfort before a harrowing reality, but knowing what happens in the tale, it is only an illusion. Cuong’s decision to embrace the liminal space of shadows rather than removing it is a reminder that shadows are where transitions and transformations happen and of the Buddhist sutra, "Form is emptiness (śūnyatā), emptiness is form. OPENING NIGHT See more about artist(s) Nguyễn Tuấn Cường