Solo Show ‘LOOK’ by Le Kinh Tai
Vietnam Art House (VAH) is pleased to present ‘LOOK’ - a Solo Exhibition by Le Kinh Tai, a Vietnamese artist based in Hochiminh City.
Opening: (planned) Medium September 2020 (By Invitation)
Exhibition: Medium September – Medium October 2020
Venue: Vietnam Art House, Laan van Meerdervoort 89, 2517 AT, The Hague
\Le Kinh Tai is a striking phenomenon of Vietnamese contemporary fine arts with a unique art style. Since 2000, Tai has become one of the typical artists and his paintings have achieved ‘top’ selling prices in the art market.
Le Kinh Tai's paintings express a different aesthetic concept, which is a mixture of street art, pop art, concept painting, and advertising paintings (poster) - these factors have made Tai's works unique.
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Solo Show ‘LOOK’ by Le Kinh Tai
Happy In The Obsession
If said that Le Kinh Tai is the most or the second special character in the southern art village, it is not
really, but certainly he is a famous eccentric among Saigon painters.
His morning always starts at around 12 a.m. Not having lunch, he has got that bad habit as from he
suddenly quit his job as a designer, the job helps him earn much money per month, to paint again. He
just eats with his wife and children at dinner, dinner food is often bought and cooked by himself. After
that, he will have a coffee cup with his close friend group at the back corner of Notre Dame Cathedral, at
the end he retreats to his own ‘art revolutionary base’, it is located in a remote location outside of the
city.
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Happy in The Obsession
Artist Le Kinh Tai and ‘To He’
The title of the exhibition ‘To He’, which is also the 8th solo exhibition of artist Le Kinh Tai, inspires my
reflection on the ontological aspect of the artist himself. ‘To he’ (toy figurine) is a traditional toy for
children in Vietnam that is made from glutinous rice powder in form of edible figurine such animals,
flowers or characters in folk stories. ‘To he’ was made and sold mostly on festivals, especially the Tet
(Nula New Year) and the Trung Thu (Mid-Autumn Festival), which are Vietnamese children’s favorites.
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Artist Le Kinh Tai and ‘To He’ by Nhu Huy
short introduction Le Kinh Tai
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Le Kinh Tai
Le Kinh Tai Biography
A Biography about artist Le Kinh Tai and his curriculum
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Le Kinh Tai
Chaos and Order
From October 14 to November 12, at the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA), artist Le Kinh Tai
presented his second exhibition in Hanoi. Unlike the previous one, this exhibition is like a ‘Retrospective’
- also the name of the exhibition - of the last ten years of creating. Before talking more carefully about
Tai's painting, I want to review the general context of Vietnamese fine arts today, because, just by that
way can we view objectively the position of an artist and about what he has done for art.
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Chaos and Order by Le Thiet Cuong
The Art is Not a Game
One of the outstanding faces of contemporary art in Ho Chi Minh City after 2000, artist Le Kinh Tai has a
unique art style: his "human" - "animals" characters are rich in instinct and the symbols of human
philosophy of contemporary life, sometimes containing many abstract signals that are difficult to grasp.
Owning a powerful brush style, bright color palette, generous mind and innovative thinking, especially
sensitive temperament and passionate emotions with endless sources of topics filtered from his diverse
life experience, he has composed paintings and statues with a very clear concept’: "I want to paint the
inner beauty of people where only I can find myself and understand what I am thinking and pondering.
On the occasion he brought 2 large paintings to a group exhibition in September 2016 in Hanoi, we had
a frank and sincere talk revolving around the artist's life, work story and his personal view about the Fine
Art innovation period.
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The Art is Not a Game by PhamLong