Israel, VN art revels in womanhood
Woman to woman: A woman admires art works at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Ha Noi. — VNS Photo Dang Khoa
HA NOI — A new exhibition putting Israeli and Vietnamese women inside and outside the frame opened at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Ha Noi on Thursday.
Attending the ceremony was Israeli Ambassador Ephraim Ben Matityau, deputy minister for the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Tien Tho and director of the museum Chu Quoc Binh.
The 10 painters each give a different perspective on life, exploring themes like age, femininity and family. The 42 pieces on display employ a multitude of media to express their ideas, from collage, woodcuts, oil paint and traditional lacquer.
Liora Zeevi uses mixed media to depict the role of housewives in Israel and Trinh Tuan’s lacquer work focuses more on love and beauty.
Celebrating the form of the female body, Moshe Hoffman’s oversized nudes stand over Luu Cong Nhan’s subtle female bodies in a similar contrast to Dang Thao Ngoc’s exuberant oil paintings capturing paradigms of youth and Ruth Schloss’s powerful old weather-beaten faces in mixed media.
Honing in on hardship and grace, Dinh Thi Tham Poong, a Thai ethnic minority woman, uses watercolour on do paper to portray bright and delicate images of women toiling on the fields.
One of her trademark symbols is the lotus flower, present in pieces like Khu Rung (Forest Grace of Women). "I love flowers but I use the lotus because of what it represents – the beauty and purity of Vietnamese women," she says.
The exhibition is the first collaboration between Israeli and Vietnamese artists in the country. It’s taken two years to prepare but it’s been really worth it, curator Raquelle Azran says.
"I was born in Israel and I live in New York but my heart belongs to Viet Nam," she says.
The show is free of charge and runs until next Saturday at 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Ha Noi. — VNS
Woman to woman: A woman admires art works at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Ha Noi. — VNS Photo Dang Khoa
HA NOI — A new exhibition putting Israeli and Vietnamese women inside and outside the frame opened at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Ha Noi on Thursday.
Attending the ceremony was Israeli Ambassador Ephraim Ben Matityau, deputy minister for the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Tien Tho and director of the museum Chu Quoc Binh.
The 10 painters each give a different perspective on life, exploring themes like age, femininity and family. The 42 pieces on display employ a multitude of media to express their ideas, from collage, woodcuts, oil paint and traditional lacquer.
Liora Zeevi uses mixed media to depict the role of housewives in Israel and Trinh Tuan’s lacquer work focuses more on love and beauty.
Celebrating the form of the female body, Moshe Hoffman’s oversized nudes stand over Luu Cong Nhan’s subtle female bodies in a similar contrast to Dang Thao Ngoc’s exuberant oil paintings capturing paradigms of youth and Ruth Schloss’s powerful old weather-beaten faces in mixed media.
Honing in on hardship and grace, Dinh Thi Tham Poong, a Thai ethnic minority woman, uses watercolour on do paper to portray bright and delicate images of women toiling on the fields.
One of her trademark symbols is the lotus flower, present in pieces like Khu Rung (Forest Grace of Women). "I love flowers but I use the lotus because of what it represents – the beauty and purity of Vietnamese women," she says.
The exhibition is the first collaboration between Israeli and Vietnamese artists in the country. It’s taken two years to prepare but it’s been really worth it, curator Raquelle Azran says.
"I was born in Israel and I live in New York but my heart belongs to Viet Nam," she says.
The show is free of charge and runs until next Saturday at 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Ha Noi. — VNS
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