Fading Clouds of Recollection: Solo exhibition by artist Luu Tuyen in Hanoi
Fading Clouds of Recollection is a mesmerising collection of contemporary relics created from dissipating fragments of historical recollections. This is also the name of artist Luu Tuyen's exhibition taking place from April 12 to May 19 in Hanoi.
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Born in 1982 in Thai Binh, a North Eastern province in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam, Luu Tuyen is currently living and working in Hanoi. He graduated from the Hanoi University of Industrial Arts and is now a member of the Vietnamese Fine Arts Association.
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| Tuyen revives objects and their memories by creating composite reconstructions of impressions of artefacts from the past. (Photo courtesy of the artist) |
Already and exceptionally accomplished and celebrated painter Tuyen discovered epoxy resin in 2013 while working on sculptures, most of Tuyen’s recent work combines painting with resin finishing techniques now. One of Vietnam's most bold and distinctive contemporary artists, Tuyen continues to push boundaries beyond the ordinary with his unique style and perspective.
Tracing the identity of the past through treasured memories and objects collected by the artist; treasures, faces, historical remnants, antiques, and anonymous artefacts which are no longer fully intact. Tuyen assembles these remembrances and objects into new compositions broken and clouded – suspended in time – creating artworks which venerate the ancient through modern conception.
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| The process is a painstaking journey of careful creation and destruction, leaving behind work that is both complete and yet purposefully unresolved. (Photo courtesy of the artist) |
Tuyen revives objects and their memories by creating composite reconstructions of impressions of artefacts from the past. Once the reconstructed object has been created in painstaking detail, Tuyen again destroys it, shattering into pieces only to reassemble and encase it in epoxy resin. A perfect incomplete memory of something that is an imagined version of what once existed. Floating in permanent interruption within the artist’s own reality the valuable effects – these people and places – are within layers of space that appear uncertain, chaotic and complex with an ambiguous illusory quality.
The process is a painstaking journey of careful creation and destruction, leaving behind work that is both complete and yet purposefully unresolved. Tuyen creates a reality and then systematically distorts and destroys it to make a new actuality.
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| Tuyen creates a reality and then systematically distorts and destroys it to make a new actuality. (Photo courtesy of the artist) |
He creates new buried realms of memories still smouldering alive, unable to fade away. Through the slow and laboured process of each artwork creation he connects himself with the past and slows the intensity of the pace of contemporary life.
Tuyen feels a deep intangible connection between his mind and the core values of ancient and profound traditional culture these perfect new relics seek to honour this connection and allows us to see them as if through is mind’s eye, shrouded underneath shapeless multicoloured layers of clouds, displayed in beautiful majesty and preserved in incredible imperfect splendour.
Luu Tuyen's notable exhibitions include: Perfect heaven – Six senses space – 2023, Spring Paintings & Sculptures – Hanoi Studio Gallery – 2019; Perfect Reality – Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum – 2018.
