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Artist Exhibitions:
Coming Solo Show
Title: Five Elements
A series of 28 nude collage
CACGV Gallery, Greater
Victoria, BC, Canada
June 26 to July 9 2008
More info.
Email: vietcanada4@hotmail.com
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Artist Statement for Viet Tran
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Art viewers normally get lost in abstract paintings in general, the figures in Tran’s collages were intended to serve as a focus point to lead viewers to a broad and uncluttered perspective of the chaotic and abstract background of these collages. Tran tried to generate viewers’ curiosity, feelings, and interpretation about movements and activities from these collages.
Tran’s collages give viewers an illusion that they were painted in oil or acrylic. Unlike painters who have total freedom of selecting and creating colour palette for their paintings, Tran does not apply any type of paint on his collage. Therefore, he depends strictly on colours from magazines. Tran enjoys the unconventional process of manipulating colour and unpredictable outcome. Each collage is unique, because it can neither be cloned nor recreated even by the artist himself.
Tran’s art reflects his confusion from dualistic concept of Yin and Yang, Dream and Reality, Sanity and Insanity, Suffering and Happiness, etc.
An art viewer may take a close look at Tran’s collages to detect movements, a chaotic world of colors, and shapes from messy layers of pieces of ripped magazines rebelliously fighting against each other. However, as the art viewer slowly steps backward about 10 feet away to have a “macro-look”, the collages gradually reveal its order, light, depth, energy, uniqueness, and beauty. The art viewer can change perspective and feeling through the artistic transformation of these collages by repeating the “zoom-in-and-out” process for a couple of times. Art viewers can find stillness and calmness within themselves through this process.
It is considered a success if art viewers of Tran’s collages can detect chaos and orders, and yin and yang by themselves without asking any clarification or question(s) from the artist. Tran himself enjoyed the creative process of making these collages. Now, the artist does hope that the viewers can enjoy the same process with their own imagination and creation.
Viet Tran
vietcanada4@hotmail.com
viettrancollage.blogspot.com
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