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Email PageCE/VN
March 1, 2008- March 29, 2008
Reception: March 20, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Van Hoai Nguyen, Nguyen Tran Nam, Nguyen Huong Giang, Nguyen Ban Ga, Hoa Nguyen, Phan Le Chung
M.Y. Art Prospects
547 W 27th StContemporary Vietnamese Artists Collaborate on Cadavre Exquis Video Series
Special ACAW* Reception, March 20, 6 - 9 PM
Conversation by Kóan Jeff Baysa with guest artist, 7:30PM
M.Y. ART PROSPECTS presents the new exhibition entitled CE/VN, featuring a unique collaborative exquisite corpse video series by Vietnam-based artists. Curated by New York - and Los Angeles - based Kóan Jeff Baysa with his co-curator in Hanoi, Hoa Nguyen, the exhibition is based on the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse), the surrealist game of chance and surprise, in which several components are created by separate artists, then brought together to form a single entity.
Traditionally involving poetry and drawing, this exhibition extends the game's medium to photography and video, for which these artists are now sourcing images from the internet, pop culture, as well as their own studio production.
Participating artists include Phan Le Chung, Nguyen Ban Ga, Nguyen Huong Giang, Hoa Nguyen, Nguyen Tran Nam, and Van Hoai Nguyen. In addition, Nguyen Manh Hung and Tran Luong in Hanoi and Bao Ngoc Nguyen in Ho Chi Minh City participated as advisors to the project.
Most of these artists, born between late 1970s to mid 1980s, also part of the Vietnamese IT industry which has high hopes of competing with the likes of other small countries with emerging high technology communities. The rewarding result of this project is the motivating of artist communities in Vietnam through the collaboration of a number of creative minds working in harmony on a single project. They have shown their work in the same group shows (see their biographies below).
This cadavre exquis exhibition (CE/VN) consists of three components: a large projection of images, an installation of 3 stacked monitors with compiled mutating images, and a single monitor showing a looped DVD of assembled images.
Deploying a relatively new art medium that is challenging, educational, and spectacular, CE/VN is an exciting voice from a dynamically developing country that has relatively little recognition in the contemporary global art world. CE/VN will also be presented as our participation in Asian Contemporary Art Week, the city-wide celebration of Asian art from March 16 to 24 (for more information, www.acaw.net).
For more information, please contact 212 268 7132 or email:info@myartprospects.com. M.Y. Art Prospects is located at 547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor, New York. Gallery Hours: Tue. - Sat. 11AM - 6PM.
Main Curator
Kóan Jeff Baysa is a curator, writer, critic, physician, and Whitney Independent Study Program Curatorial alumnus. A contributing writer for New York Arts Magazine and the online publications Flavorpill and Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, he has written for Art Asia Pacific, is the Pacific editor for d'Art International (Toronto), contributing writer and editor for contemporary culture periodicals, aRUde and The Royal, and a member of AICA, the association of international art critics. He has curated shows for the London Biennale, LA International Biennial, Whitney Museum, Canon Corporation, The United Nations, and has organised art events throughout the US and in Paris, Cork, London, Beijing, Bandung, Hong Kong, Manila, Santiago, and Yokohama. He has presented lectures at the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York. On the boards of The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School University, Art Omi International Artist Colony, the Asian American Art Centre, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, he is also the Head of the New York Curatorial Office and the Director-Curator of International Projects for MOCA China, an art foundation that supports a proposed network of contemporary museums in China. With experience in organising benefit events in the not-for-profit sector, he is the contemporary art and medical science advisor for The Daily Brand, a multi-disciplinary communications agency based in Los Angeles. The critic-in residence for the 2006 Art Omi International Artists Colony in Ghent, New York, he received a Ford Foundation grant to lecture on contemporary curatorial practice at the Hanoi University of Culture in Vietnam and conducted a survey of contemporary art in south and north Vietnam. Dr. Baysa divides his time between New York and Los Angeles, and has a consultative clinical practice in lower Manhattan, specialising in allergy and hypersensitivity disorders with special interest in the role of the olfactory sense in health and aesthetics.
Participating artists - please also see their information on www.hanoilink.com
Van Hoai Nguyen
b. 1981, Hanoi,Vietnam. Worked as a graphic designer and film maker for magazines (Auto-Motor,New Life,Audio&Visual,Vehicles and Life)
2006: "2112" at gallery 39 (Hanoi)
2007: "My art show here" – mobile art project from HN to Hue-Nhatrang – Dalat – Saigon, "Mekong River Project" Korea Vietnam Art Exchange in Saigon and Mekong Delta
Nguyen Tran Nam
b. 1979. Bachelor Degree, Hanoi University of Fine Arts, 2003
2006: Hanoi Open Performance Exhibition, "2112" at gallery 39
2007: "The Pig and an individual view" –mobile art-show around HN, HanoiLink - A Preview exhibition in Richmond, Melbourne, Australia
Nguyen Huong Giang
b. 1974 in Hanoi,Vietnam
2003 Bachelor of Art – Hanoi Fine Arts University
VietIt Contemporary Art Award by Italian Embassy, October 2006
2007: "HanoiLink – A Preview" exhibition in Richmond, Melbourne, Australia, "Hanoi-Paris" Video Art
Nguyen Ban Ga
b. 1979 in Hanoi,Vietnam
2001-2004 Hanoi Fine Art University
2005: "Bua Tiec" (The Party) Group Exhibition, Chim sao Hanoi
2007: -HanoiLink processing exhibition " Smell Life", "HanoiLink – A Preview" exhibition in Richmond, Melbourne, Australia
2008: "Hanoi – Paris" Video Art Project, Paris.
Hoa Nguyen
b. 1979 in Hanoi,Vietnam.
2002 Bachelor of Art – Hanoi Fine Arts university
2005: " 365 days"at Hanoi House Exhibition 29, "Nude" at gallery 39, Hanoi
2006: "2112" at gallery 39, Hanoi
2007: " The Pig and an individual view" –mobile art-show around H, HanoiLink processing exhibition " Smell Life" - supported by Dongsontoday foundation in Phuthuong Flower village ,"HanoiLink – A Preview" exhibition in Richmond, Melbourne, Australia
Phan Le Chung
b. 1985 Graphic design department - HUE Art University
2006: INFINITIVE Group Installation "Poetry Gate" – FESTIVAL HUE INFINITIVE Group exhibition "Rush Hour" - Saigonopencity(SOC) The contemporary "VIET IT" - Viet art center, Hanoi
2007: The Art & Culture Mekong River Project, Mukorsurin, Thailand. Performance "One Week Snaky" L'espace de francaise de HANOI
2008: The Student exhibition, HUE Art University
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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