A little bit throwback in the unsettling time of uncertainty (cont.)
In 2017 CUC Gallery was pleased to present a group exhibition “Personal Structures” with 5 Vietnamese contemporary artists organized by European Cultural Centre and GAA Foundation at Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy.
In the "Vietnam in Venice" exhibition (2017), Nguyen Trung had two works MA 1 (2015, acrylic on canvas) and The Light (2016, lamp, stretched canvas, acrylic) in which time relays through distances, as in "images from the past" which take a great length of time in gestation, in abstract works.
"Lodermeyer relates Heidegger’s “time is Dasein… Dasein always is in the manner of its possible temporal being… Dasein is its past, it is its possibility in running ahead to this past.” These lines may also be invoked to explain Nguyen Trung’s thoughts and painting practices. Indeed, as expounded by Lodermeyer, time as duration is understood as a temporality that is subjective, and following apprehension and movement that is not frozen in a moment or an order of sequence.
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These works form a continuum to the paintings, framed within the same temporality of being. They also address Personal Structures’ interest in the issue of “space-relatedness”. In Nguyen Trung, space is the studio space as both physically bounded and aesthetically unbounded."
The text and interview presented here is part of research for the book titled Essence, written by Kwok Kian Chow*, published by CUC Gallery in 2017.
If you wish to learn more about the artist, please go to this link: http://www.cucgallery.vn/nguyen-trung
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*Writer, curator and museum consultant, Kwok Kian Chow is program leader and associate professor of arts and culture management, and director of the Wee Kim Wee Centre, Singapore Management University. Kwok was senior curator (1992-1994) of the National Museum of Singapore, Director (1994-2009) of the Singapore Art Museum, director (2009-2011) and senior advisor (2011-2015) of The National Gallery Singapore. He has published many books and articles on visual arts and cultural institutions in Southeast Asia, Singapore and China."
