Dang Nhat Ha, CEO of Art Exchange. — VNS Photo

By Dang Nhat Ha

HÀ NỘI — Blue, the main color of recent new works, is smoothly transformed when changing the color scheme to the contour area close to the side, soft and gentle so that the content objects do not become jealous or embarrassed. Even though blue is the main color, its softness varies.

Even accents in opposing colors, such as red, white, or black, do not irri­tate the audience; instead, the viewer perceives them as natural and evenly distributed. Contemplation, Existence, Peaceful, Peace, Nostalgia, Prayer, or True Believer, Freedom, and Nothingness are a series of works with blue as the main theme and the exhibition’s main works.

It is truly the result of Dare to mix colors and Dare to place the brush to create shapes, providing the audience with a gentle visual direction as if listening to a peaceful song harmonised by various instruments. The works in the same batch created for the exhi­bition are a collection of abstract expressionist paintings with content that purposefully guides the audience. Imposing the viewer gently through color and shape, but containing profound content hidden within layers of space.

Dare , that until now he dares to draw, he paints shy things, the most essential human beings with boldness and decisiveness, skillfully giving him content that is not vulgar and raw, all the subtle things are the most condensed things from everyday life, from his own experiences and memories, but also those of anyone, everyone can see themselves par­ticipating in the story.

Dare, now he dares to draw, that is, to draw content, to draw stories; he tells life stories, stories of moments, journeys, or lives; he even tells societal phenomena, the outlook on life, the state of affairs, through colors, brush strokes, and shapes; he tells, he shares, life insights. No one is the same. How can they be? Each person has a life, each event, each situation, and people involved from various perspectives will have different stories. But who would dare to share that life? Who is willing to speak out about what they have witnessed? And how can we tell?

In the painting Contemplation, he narrates:

If possible, do not moan about fate

Let the wind to dispel the entangled grief

Life is short, and love is not enough

Why bother with angry outbursts and ignorance?

In the painting Nothingness he shared:

The earthly world is only temporary

The party ends and returns to nothingness

Please respect and love one another

Because time cannot be reversed?

Or a sobbing in Prayer:

Life is a world of confusion

Be content with spending the rest of your life being transported back to nothingness.

Birth, old age, illness, and death cycle

The dust of the world is washed away, and we return empty-handed.

Dare, that is, dares to not only to tell philosophical stories, teachings from beliefs, mod­ern social stories, or in the human world, but also to tell his own narratives, personal stories that are universalized, personal and family stories, revolving around each individ­ual’s life, the things he kept secret that he dared to reveal in his paintings. It’s his story, the SILENT MOMENTS in life that echo the silences in the music he frequently performs. It is an essential component in the music of life. As a seasoned man, SILENT MOMENT I serves as an experimental step, allowing him to graduate into a more free, liberal, and confident painting style.

Dung Trong’s works are primarily abstract, but they are also abstract expressionist. Every story has a clue to reach, he shared. Every audience standing and watching, without becoming lost in front of an abstract painting, can recognize the story behind his works by the cues of expression he purposefully created. They will be able to identify and move on to content that appears to be similar to something they have previously experienced.

Dung Trong uses his paintings to tell stories to the audience. In the midst of life’s chaos, he seeks balance and peace. Thai binh Hung bao is a Dinh Dynasty coin from the 10th century, and he borrowed ancient images to convey a commandment, the cause and effect of life.

Reflects the true picture of society, with numerous consequences, conflicts, both good and bad, and even defiance that transcends morality, religion, and law. However, good things, green seeds, are always waiting to be born, silently rising, filled with hope, from the bonds of mediocrity. The work Good deeds

The proper way to live is to keep the soul calm

To prosper is to be luckier than others

Please smile rather than crying

Think simply to makes life more flavorful?

There are dogmas and forces that are used as tools to lead people toward a specific goal;

They will be lost if we lose faith. Faith is like a thread that runs through all levels, like a boundary, like a reason to live as a salvation, to keep us as humans, back to the human world with life, as in the work Existential.

Life is swept away by countless passions and reasons; over time, there are countless pieces that make up life and society, but behind that, there is support for each of us. Everyone will require a steady figure, a comforting arm, to lull us to sleep when we are exhausted. Most of his works contain a desire to liberate, transcend, and break free from the bonds of concepts and perceptions. However, that desire is inherently contradictory. He believes in religion, cause and effect, good things, and the ability to maintain equilib­rium in the face of disruption.

Each work in SILENT MOMENT II is a story, but they are interconnected when we watch them all at once. From spiritual stories, beliefs, teachings, personal narratives, social phenomena... but it is clear that there is still the artist’s timidity and naivety, naive to life and bewildered by the colors he created. This gives his paintings an overall optimistic tone. There is a picture that appears to tell a sad story, but the colors are optimistic, up­lifting the viewer’s spirits.

We all have life stories, experiences of sadness, happiness, success, or failure, and many people have dared to tell and share those stories in some form or another. Some peo­ple tell stories through writing, while others tell them through music or food and drink. Through poetry or film... Dung Trong chooses to tell stories through the colors of brush strokes, drawing on the profound metaphorical philosophy of abstract art. The stories he tells are simple, and everyone has seen and experienced them, so you will quickly feel closeness and sympathy in his works.

Each work tells a story, but each audience has a unique story. Come see, read, and listen to the story of artist Dung Trong, and then read, watch, and hear your own story, which is similar to each work. The story is never the same as it moves through life. Dung Trong sees each new day as a creative opportunity to capture new content in his paintings and compositions. We will read the contents of SILENT MOMENT II and then proceed to SILENT MOMENT II in the near future./.