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MUSIC & PERFORMANCES

Hanoi-Ionah Show

Star Galaxy, 87 Lang Ha Street, Ba Dinh district

7:45 pm, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

Come to the 75-minute Ionah Show to enjoy the perfect combination of circus, dance, music and theatrical arts, offering a new look into Vietnamese art and culture.

The name “Ionah” may sound like a foreign name from a distant land, but it is in fact truly familiar. “Ionah” is “Hanoi” written in reverse, a gift originated from the love for Hanoi.

Ticket prices: VND750,000 – VND 950,000

HCMC- Teh Dar: Vietnamese Tribal Culture


6:00 pm, every day except Monday and Friday

Ho Chi Minh City Opera House, 7 Cong Truong Lam Son, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1

‘Teh Dar: Vietnamese Tribal Culture’ features a vibrant display of circus arts, aerial acrobatics, and tribal music within an hour-long performance.

The show highlights the lives of tribal families from the southwest highlands of Vietnam, using UNESCO-listed percussion instruments, such as Vietnamese gongs and buffalo horns, as well as vibrant costumes, and a stunning bamboo cirque depicting various landscapes and creatures from tribal folklore.

Price range: VND630,000 - VND1,470,000

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EXHIBITION

Hanoi-Exhibition “The Tropical”

Until Aug 17, 9 am – 12 pm and 1.30 – 5 pm

VICAS Art Studio, 32 Hao Nam Street, Dong Da District,

39 multi-color, multi-style paintings at presence, the 5 artists together created a multi-dimensional “tropical” in art painting.

Nguyen Thanh Hai’s paintings are a unique blend between: 1) The spirit of a rocker with neither elaboration nor cheesy; 2) The rhythm of a samba dancer and 3) The color of a Fauvism artist. I love the thickness of colors, dazzling but attractive; as sweet as layers of cream. It is the artist’s intuitive expression of capturing the appealing landscapes of a “tropical zone” (sunshine, wind, blue sea, coconut trees and wandering splendid clouds).

Pham Sinh’s colorful paintings of plants, flowers, and nuances of the natural climate distinctively represent the “tropical zone”. But his ultimate goal is not to describe the scene but to express his feelings about them, paintings of flowers are like the excitements / desires of a man standing in front of a beautiful woman or, in other artwork, are the baptism of the soul witnessing the transformation of two dichotomous natural phenomenons (“after the flood”, “after the rain”, “red forest” “winter’s sunshine”).

Tao Linh’s “tropical zone” are not the bright rays of silky sunshine, the blue of the ocean, or the jubilation of aura yet the tropical zone deep inside of every human being: peaceful and soft sometimes, but also sweltering and uneasy. In the paintings of Linh, people may see the harmony between mediating and suggestive strokes and light and delicate colors. That makes his paintings inspirational.

Nguyen Manh Quynh figures a “tropical zone” of his inner soul with eight abstract paintings. It is the expression – abstract presentation of love, friendship, good and evil… The language in his paintings reminds people of the extreme weather in the land of monsoon tropical: or sultry heat, or the trembling cold of the northeast winter wind or the wet & humid air that makes it hard to breathe…

Luu Vu Long is one of the few neo-expression painters in Vietnam. Although the colors in his artworks are very of “tropical zone” yet he does not literally mention its natural features. His paintings address concerns on the social-humanity issues of the land we are living in: the mediation of being a human being and the desire for a better life between people and people. Of course, people only wish when the reality is much to be disappointed. From an anthropological perspective, Luu Vu Long’s painting series presents a “sad tropical zone”.

Hanoi- Exhibition “Puzzle Pieces” by Luong Van Viet


Hanoi Studio, 13 Trang Tien Street

An exhibition that marks the third milestone in the artist’s career. Come and join us at an exhibition where art and humans quietly and gently touch one another, where we see contemporary, coherent, chiseled puzzle pieces made of iron, bronze, aluminum and wood. We see utmost minimalism in the shapes. No redundant details, no lousy colors. These puzzles pieces create silence. Silence in the clarity of heart and mind.

Hanoi-Exhibition “3 . 3 . 3.” by Le Cong Thanh

Heritage Space, 1st Floor, Dolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang (for car) | 28 Tran Binh (for bike), My Dinh 2,

3 . 3 . 3. is a sculptural interpretation of Le Cong Thanh’s artistic spirit. This exhibition does not display currently available works at his workshop, but chooses 3 models from his thin-steeled sculpture series, before enlarging them into 09 ‘sculptures’ in medium to large sizes, with the consent of the artist and his family. Each sketch is a generalised representation of the sculpture figure he pursues: the female body, Totem objects, the endless column with a spirit of mystery, sensuality, thirst and grandiosity.

Free entrance

Hanoi- Showcase “The Age after Divinity” by Nguyen Manh Hung



Until Aug 6,

Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich Street

A series of new works entitled “The Age After Divinity” by Hanoi-born surrealist, Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng, whose playful, irony-laden work has been turning heads in the contemporary art scene of Vietnam.

Depicting activities and events of daily life in an absurd world, this series of oil and water colour paintings presents immersive environments with droll juxtapositions that cleverly allude to cultural realities, social conflicts, the complexities of civic development and individual responsibility in Vietnam today.

Focusing on the visual relationships of disjointed elements and unusual scales, with “The Age After Divinity”, Hung has conveyed his wry sense of humour and boldly brought audiences to a world in which everything is made bare through his biting irony.

“The Age After Divinity” will be launched on Friday, 6 July 2018 and will be on display till 06 August 2018 at Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi.

Free entry

Hanoi-Photo Exhibition “The Eye of Istanbul” by Ara Güler


Leica Boutique Hanoi, 14 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi

An exhibition by Turkish photographer Ara Güler.

Ara Güler’s work has been featured across international titles – Time, Life, Stern and Paris Match, to name a few. Despite years of being on the road and photographing famous luminaries, Güler’s heart remains rooted in Istanbul. He bears witness to its many changes and continues to find inspiration photography in the city with his Leica camera.

HCMC- Exhibition “King” by Pham Thanh Toan


Craig Thomas Gallery, 27i Tran Nhat Duat Street, Tan Dinh Ward, District 1

Toan’s “King” collection comprises of a bold batch of primarily over-sized canvases with several of the works themselves being quadriptychs and pentaptychs. The effect of such large paintings, often done in luxuriantly thick layers of imported oils, is immediate and visceral.

Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 11 am to 6pm; Sundays 12 to 5 pm; and by appointment

Hanoi-Exhibition “ELLIPSIS”


Toong Minh Khai, 126 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Str, District 3

The “Ellipsis” exhibition is an attempt by 4 image-making artists: Danny Bach, Minh Pham, Dat Vu and Cietisoo Nguyen, to connect and share our personal approaches to photography and image-making with the creative community.

Free entrance

Hanoi- Exhibition “Gang of Five Chancing Modern”


The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, 15 Nguyen U Di, Thao Dien, District 2

Curated by Le thuan Uyen, the exhibition surveys over three decades of artistic practices by five of the most important figures in the art scene of North Vietnam; Hong Viet Dung, Ha Tri Hieu, Dang Xuan Hoa, Tran Luong and Pham Quang Vinh.

Featuring nearly forty paintings and numerous original historical materials (including reviews and interviews, archival images, exhibition guest books, two short film documentaries, and a timeline tracking the conception, development, and reunion of the Gang of Five, this is one of the few retrospective exhibitions staged in Vietnam that thoroughly documents the lives and preoccupations of local artists (and/or artist groups) of the 20th century.

Tickets:

For adults: VND 35,000

For students: VND 25,000 (with appropriate student ID)

For children under 16: free (with appropriate ID)

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