Make Shift, at Fost Gallery Singapore
Make Shift solo exhibition runs from 24 June - 27 August 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, 24 June 2017, 3 – 6 pm
Artist’s Walk-Through: Sunday, 16 July 2017, 3 – 4 pm
For more information please click http://www.fostgallery.com/make-shift/
Photo courtesy of Fost Gallery
Mappa Mundi at the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art
06 Jun – 06 Aug 2017
Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA)
Level B1 – R3 Royal City, 72 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Ha Noi
From the organizer:
VCCA’s inaugural event is contemporary art exhibition “Tỏa / The Foliage” taking place from 06 June to 06 August. The exhibition is the merging point of East and West, introducing more than 50 artworks by 19 renowned contemporary artists from Viet Nam and overseas:
Yoko Ono
Đặng Xuân Hòa
Đinh Thị Thắm Poong
Hà Mạnh Thắng
Hà Trí Hiếu
Lê Hoàng Bích Phượng
Lê Thừa Tiến
Bùi Hải Sơn
Sandrine Llouquet
Christine Nguyễn
Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng
Nguyễn Quang Huy
Trọng Gia Nguyễn
Phi Phi Oanh
Phạm Đình Tiến
Trần Văn Thành
Truc-Anh
Trương Tân
Võ Trân Châu
Curator: Quynh Pham – Director of Galerie Quynh and founder of non-profit art initiative Sao La in HCMC.
June 4th Opening of Radiant Material Exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore
March 4-31, 2017 group exhibition at the Korean Cultural Center in Hanoi.
• Exhibition: 04 – 31 Mar 2017.
• At Korean Cultural Center in Vietnam: featuring works of Bui Cong Khanh, Heaven Beak, Phi Phi Oanh, Seulki Ki.
• At Heritage Space: featuring works of Hyejin Jo, Lai Dieu Ha, UuDam Tran Nguyen, Woosung Lee.
The Korean Cultural Center in Vietnam (Director Lee Dae Joong) and Heritage Space is honored to organize the exhibition ‘Ranh gioi vo dinh | Undefined boundaries’ to introduce the Vietnamese and Korean contemporary art to celebrate 25 years of foreign relation between two countries. The exhibition will take place from 3 to 31 March, 2017 at the Korean Cultural Center in Vietnam and Heritage Space. This project is part of the NEXT Expert Training series by Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS), co-organized by the Korean Cultural Center in Vietnam and the Korea Arts Management Service.
The project will bring to the audience a diverse body of artworks by 8 artists, from 30-40 years old, who are currently very active in the domestic and international art scenes – Ki Seulki, Heaven Beak, Lee Woosung, Jo Hyejin, UuDam Tran Nguyen, Phi Phi Oanh, Bui Cong Khanh, Lai Dieu Ha. This exhibition, organized by Korea Arts Management Service, in partnering with Heritage Space, a Hanoi-based art space focusing on contemporary arts, will be showcasing artwork from various practices, such as painting, photography, installation, images with a ‘Boundary’ theme, which represent diverse perspectives of artists from both countries. Each piece contains thoughts of artists coming from the same era about boundaries between traditional and modern, ideal and reality, individual and society, and at the same time conveys stories about changes and phenomena happening in Vietnam and South Korea. This exhibition is an opportunity for exploring and expressing the opinions from different perspectives of Vietnamese and South Korean artists.
LOCK ROUTE - A PUBLIC ART SHOWCASE AT GILLMAN BARRACKS
I will be participating in this public art exhibition Lock Route.
13 JAN 2017 - 30 JUN 2017 OPEN 24 HOURS
FEE: FREE
LOCK ROUTE
Official launch during Art After Dark 13 January 7PM
Various locations around Gillman Barracks
Open 24 hours to the public
Gillman Barracks' public art showcase, LOCK ROUTE, opens officially during Art After Dark on Friday 13 January 2017. Curated by Khairuddin Hori, LOCK ROUTE takes inspiration from Gillman Barracks’ address and the 24km long route march common in the training of ‘graduating’ army recruits in Singapore, harking back to Gillman Barracks’ history of being a former military barracks.
LOCK ROUTE features 16 arresting outdoor artworks by 15 world-renowned and emerging international and Singapore artists, including several new commissions. The artworks consist of site-specific installations, sculptures and murals, and visitors are invited to traverse the grounds of Gillman Barracks and experience a closer encounter with art out in the open.
Scry at Manzi Artspace
Opening: Fri 16 Dec 2016, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 16 Dec 2016 – 16 Jan 2017
Artist talk: Sat 17 Dec 2016, 3 pm
Manzi Art Space
Sous la Lune/Beneath the Moon at ICAS Singapore
I will be participating in this group exhibition curated by Khairuddin Hori, and organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and the Palais de Tokyo. The exhibition runs from 11 December 2015 through 3 February 2016.
Palimpsest at Artstage 2015, Southeast Asian Platforms
Palimpsest was shown at the Southeast Asia Platforms, a curated show by Khim Ong at Singapore's Premier artfair Artstage 2015, from 22-25 January 2015.
Palimpsest Review in Art Asia Pacific Magazine
"Arts du Vietnam: Nouvelles Approches" Conference
7 August 2014
I will be participating in this conference in Paris. My presentation will on Saturday, 6 September at 13:30 at the Musée du Quai Branly. If you are in Paris, please join me.
Palimpsest in the Press
14 May 2014
Specula Video
21 May 2014
Interview with Singapore Biennale 2013 artist Nguyen Oanh Phi Phi from Vietnam.
Get to know the artists and curators in this 45-part series of fresh, fun short films that feature their practice and the
process behind their SB2013 artworks.
http://www.singaporebiennale.org
Palimpsest at the Fost Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
08 May 2014
Palimpsest is at the Fost Gallery at Gillman Barracks in Singapore.
From May 09-June 29,
http://www.gillmanbarracks.com/art-galleries/FOST-gallery/291
http://www.fostgallery.com/#/home
If you are in Singapore, please come by for a visit.
Group exhibition
7 March 2014
I am participating in a group exhibition at the Goethe Institut in Hanoi. Please come by if you are in town. For more information please see http://www.goethe.de/ins/vn/han/ver/en12367132v.htm
Specula at the Singapore Biennale 2013 "If the World Changed"
23 October 2013
Visit Specula at the Chapel Space at the Singapore Art Museum, October 24, 2013- Februrary 16, 2014.
Fisheye lens view of the exhibition space.
Photo source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2013-10/24/c_132828089_6.htm
Specula in the press for Singapore Biennale
October 2013 (click to see link)
- China.org.cn, 25 October 2013
- Wall Street Journal Online, 29 October 2013
- Straits Times, 28 October 2013
- Blouin Artinfo, Southeast Asia, 13 October 2013
- Coconuts Singapore, 24 October 2013
- Asia Art Pacific Magazine, 25 October 2013
- Hanoi Grapevine, 25 October 2013
May 2013
- Blouin Artinfo, Southeast Asia, 9 May 2013
- Singapore Biennale 2013 press conference, by Nhu Huy, 9 May 2013
Artist Talk at the Biennale with Curators Nhu Huy and Naomi Wang
Sunday, 27 October 2013, 2pm SAM Chapel
KVT reviews Palimpsest Exhibition in Hanoi
15 May 2013
"KVT in palimpsest with Phi Phi Oanh"
Source: http://hanoigrapevine.com/2013/05/kvt-phi-phi-does-it-yet-again/
Phi Phi Oanh never ceases to amaze me as she experiments with the properties of traditional lacquer, bending and breaking the rules, opening new pathways and bewildering the purists. It’s little wonder that I’m one of her biggest fans…
At L’Espace Phi Phi has mounted a daring exhibition of lacquer works called ‘Palimpsest’ which is one of those hard to pronounce without getting your tongue tied in knots words and which comes from Ancient Greek (palimpsestos) sort of meaning scraped clean.
The Romans used to work on wax coated tablets that could be smoothed and re-used and Cicero used the term palimpsest to describe the practice. Later it referred to parchment (in the days when parchments and paper were expensive scarcities) that was scraped of its original text so that a new one could be written or drawn on it. Often, and over time, the original text was often visible by transparency, a palimpsest.
You can still occasionally buy those magic slates for kids that erases the text when you lift the plastic coated page you initially wrote on. However you often find that the palimpsest of previous fun appears like a phantom.
Gore Vidal’s memoir is evocatively titled ‘Palimpsest’ and fits this remarkable novelist so well as it scrapes away the present to reveal images of the past, scratched and uneven and present a transparent truth
The word crosses many boundaries and in archeology it is used, simplistically, to describe repetitions of designs on the various layers of a dig.
It can be used to describe the lines left when an appliance is removed (a picture frame from the wall!)
I guess those urban walls that are plastered and re-plastered with posters could use the term and in Paris a permanent street art project is named Palimpsest and local and international artists coat and recoat Francois Mitterrand Mall with works on paper that are eventually covered by another’s paper work.
And I also like this piece, of the same name, commissioned for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and for the aging baby boomer rockers here’s an attempt by Palimpsest 9 to reconstruct a Cure hit:
And a You Tube clip of a palimpsest performance during Superformances in Strasbourg which pushes the term into the avant garde.
Which brings me back to Phi Phi and her ‘Palimpsest’ exhibition which definitely stretches her lacquer concepts and techniques into the avant garde.
Phi Phi uses pieces of her last year’s exhibition at L’Espace…lacquer on transparent film, and uses pieces of these as slides in redesigned projectors that use led lights. Like slides of medical specimens they are projected onto silk screens stretched over extra large wooden frames in a blacked out room. The slides are changed during the day so that the macro/micro images are never the same and so that I don’t get my non scientific mind tied up in more knots than my tongue, I’ll follow with 3 images of Phi Phi’s wall statement that have a blurred enough touch to them to be interpretations of palimpsest statements. The screens can be viewed from a variety of angles and are almost palimpsest echoes of the very brilliant lacquered metal tunnel she exhibited to enormous acclaim locally and at a triennale in China.
Pieces used as slides are displayed in a side cabinet as are originals, from the previous show in the same venue.
Ever the exciting innovator and inventor, Phi Phi’s intent was to have her palimpsest images projected, from the interior of L’Espace, onto the windows at night, creating a huge screen to be viewed by passersby. Unfortunately the bright street lights made this almost impossible so she re-invented, almost on the spot, and constructed the present black box arena with slides projected onto 3 parallel silk screens by nine modified projectors…and for those keen to see how traditional mediums and concepts can be pushed and plasticized, then it’s an exhibition that is sure to excite and fire imaginations.
As always, I can hardly wait for the next installment.
Kiem Van Tim is a keen observer of life in general and the Hanoi cultural scene in particular and offers some of these observations to the Grapevine. KVT insists that these observations and opinion pieces are not critical reviews.
Palimpsest at L'Espace, Hanoi, April-May 2013
17 May 2013
Exposition de Nguyễn Oanh Phi Phi - 17 avr./24 mai 2013 - Hall d'exposition de L'Espace
Palimpseste est développé sur la base de la précédente exposition de Oanh Phi Phi à l’Espace où elle a présenté la peau laque (ou son ta sur un film transparent)
Palimpseste est développé sur la base de la précédente exposition de Oanh Phi Phi à l’Espace où elle a présenté la peau laque (ou son ta sur un film transparent), un concept et une technique qu'elle a développés de l’image de laque dématérialisée. Cette fois-ci, la laque est montrée par l’intermédiaire de diapositives projetées à l'aide de projecteurs spécialement réaménagés sur des écrans de soie tendus sur des cadres en bois. Ces projeteurs "modernisés" avec les LED n’abîment pas les laques dématérialisées qu’ils projettent et sont économes en énergie.
Vernissage :
17.04 – 18h00
Exposition :
17.04>24.05
Entrée libre