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Artist Statement:
..."Time never turns back. But
memories keep us everything"
..."I am free when I paint.
All of my innerself has been
represented in my painting. I
think, every one has his own
personal view. My individual
vision about humant affection
and relation as motherhood,
love... can be seen in all...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Press Release for Exhibition
LEAVES
from 2008, March 22 - April 4
by Pham Kien Giang
at Aroma d.d, Exhibition Space
& Store
17B15/ 51 Cam Hoi str.,
Hai Ba Trung dist.,
Hanoi - Vietnam
Opening hours: every day from
8am -8pm and with appointment
With efforts for Painting
during the past ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Press Release for
Exhibition IMMORTAL ART
DECLARATION
Paintings collected for an
exhibition “Immortal Art
Declaration” of artist Pham
Kien Giang is result of all
what he has tried with his
confidence and passion.
As a self- taught artist, he
always feels “inferior” that
he was not educated in Fine
Arts...
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Pham Kien Giang Biography:
| Biographical information for Pham Kien Giang can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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38
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
Buddhism |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
A crab, a fiber melon follow mother to go home,
Muggy summer noon, market is so far,
Today mom has said : “How happy I am”,
A few country dishes for standing family.*
(* Phạm Kiến Giang, 2004)
Giang prefers to paint by oil on canvas.
The object in most of Giang’s works is the picturesque countryside landscape of Vietnam with deep, fully innocent and pure love of artist.
To Giang, art is field where unable things could become able ones. Sometimes he paints a solitary house at the right centre of painting surrounded by cloud and water.
Sometimes a road is painted from left down corner to right up one. It seems that dealing, arranging in composition of Giang are gone with other expression logic which is rarely used by artists graduated from Fine Art Schools. And Giang’s dealing with color is different from other artists.
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Expressionism - (1940 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Monet
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Landscapes
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
As a self- taught artist, Giang always feels “inferior” that he was not educated in Fine Arts schools, was not called artist graduated or certificated from a Fine Arts University. However, it is inferiority that helps Giang have gigantic efforts to practice tirelessly with strong passion. His efforts in the art road really deserve to be respected; from a person passionate for art he has devoted himself to art. Giang has to research and study by himself as well as has no help or instruction of any teachers in art. His only teacher is experiences and what he spent and self-comprehend when everyday contacting with art and paintings. Giang works hard. For Giang, in order to succeed in art and have paintings affecting man’s heart, Fine Art also needs real working of artist as well as professionalism and hard training. It is the first factor to make artist successful.
Desire for painting – paints artworks which are vivid, effective, expressive and possible to communicate artist’s soul has had a strong attachment for Giang during 7 past years. 7 years are not so short but seven years for art’s training are not still long enough. However, Giang’s seven-year working probably is as long as twenty-year average working of a professional artist. Giang has painted thousands of paintings, drawing then erasing, drawing then erasing. He does not also remember clearly that there are how many works on each canvas. He has painted, then erasing, then cleaning by his own hands to renew canvas and then repainting on it. That process happens repetitively. And now the artist’s paintings we are seeing today have been imbued with his sweat and even with his blood. It is the truth when he scrapes hard and thick oil-paint layers from old paintings to draw new ones on that.
In the process of hard training, Giang thinks unceasingly a saying of Picasso and it is the great encouragement for the artist in training: “For me, a painting is the sum of destruction. I draw a painting, and then destroy it later. But ultimately, I lost nothing. Red I take from this place will appear in other one”. And Giang has understood that saying in both its literal and figurative meanings. He has also tried like that.
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| Your Personal Biography |
'The work of the young Hanoi painter Phạm Kiến Giang deals with the memory of time and place. His vision is one of a gentle rural idyll in which a sense of innocence reigns. The pace of life is slow and one that has altered little from one generation to another. It is a world of peace that people from the frenetic world of the city long to return to...
...One knows that there are people and their activities within his landscapes for we see their marks in the field and in the silent , ancient houses, in which they live, as well as in the small skiffs that they use on the rivers and ponds. Giang’s light colors (‘vibrant and tender’) and impastoed textures remind one of Van Gogh’s influence. His surfaces have a three – dimensional aspect to them, which adds significantly to the strength of his naive imagery. Here is the world heavy with peace, redolent with the smells and sounds of the nature, the kind of exile that people from the frenetic world of the city dream of returning to. This is but a dream, however, for most people today to silence and sounds of nature would frighten them.'
[by Ian Findlay, Editor of Asian Art News
Asian Art News January/February 2005, pages nr.76 and 77 ]
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