First Art Brut exhibition heads to Hanoi
VOV.VN - As many as 52 abstract paintings produced by local artist Nguyen My Linh have been put on display at the nation’s first Art Brut exhibition being held in the capital.
The exhibition is running with the theme of “Vibrant” features Art Brut acrylic works on linen.
My Linh’s paintings serve to showcase a release of pent-up energy, to communicate with herself in a way that can be considered as a real spiritual self-treatment, according to Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Thu Phuong, deputy director of the Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts (VICAS).
In the middle of the last century, the great French artist Jean Dubuffet discovered, collected, and promoted a particular art movement in which “works are created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses without the interference of any worries about social competition, acclaim or advancement…”
He called it Art Brut, also known as Outsider Art, which later became a terminology used to describe a specific kind of visual art.
The exhibition will open for free at VICAS Art Studio at 32 Hao Nam street in Hanoi and will last through to March 19.