VIETNAMESE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
NGUYEN DUC LOI
b. 1981, Vietnam
Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Nguyen Duc Loi pursued his artistic education at the Hanoi Fine Arts University and started exhibiting his works both in Germany and his native Vietnam.
Nguyen Duc Loi’s art captivates viewers with insightful and fantasmagoric representations of the complexity of our contemporary societies, both in South East Asia and around the world. His critical observations about social crisis and geopolitical partitions are translated in his art with themes of fabrication, greed, occupation, transgression, and liberation. Drawing inspiration from a vast glossary of Asian and European fantasmagoric images, the artist is depicting humans, gods, angels, demons caught in different acts and situations of devouring, struggling, oppressing, inter-relating and escaping from each others.
Most important in Nguyen Duc Loi unique act painting is his energizing way of developing on the canvas on-going flows of abstract or figurative shapes and colors that are continuously overlapping, dialoguing or conflicting to/with each other. Each painting of Nguyen Loi Duc is staging shaken worlds but also emerging ones where dizzying geometrical forms and structures are contradicted by informal shapes, dismembered body parts, sometimes deliquescent mass of figures. Flesh, bones, architectonic details, dragons, horses, surrealistic monsters are often highlighted by shinny rays of light or swallowed into darkness, spiralling in circles indefinitely or desperately struggling to find any potential exit and escape.
Opposite to any process of massification, systematization and forms control, Nguyen Loi Duc’s art is always engaged in dynamic moves and liberating streams, drifting apart from static or restricted movements, rigid and binary systems of thoughts, intimidation and harassment. His critical art is a precious contribution to South East Asian histories and global contemporary cultures that are challenging decisive environmental, societal and geopolitical mutations.
By: Tang Contemporary art
https://www.tangcontemporary.com/devouring-kizzo-and-nguyen-duc-loi-hk-central
Some my pictures start for new painting new idea , step buy step. I want everything in my mind very clearly
EXHIBITIONS
18 June 2022 Day For Night Alpha Art Station gallery
271/5 Nguyen Trong Tuyen Str. Phu Thuan W., HCMC
30 May 2016 : GROUP Exhibiton “ Vietnam Art “ KTG Gallery At Hamburg – Germany
April - 2016: SOLO Exhibiton AT KTG Gallery IN Hamburg – Germany
26- sep -2013 : Group exhibition ” The Hanoi Open Exhibition" At: 9 Le Thanh Tong street., Hanoi, Vietnam
15 July -2013: Solo exhibition ” OBSESSION IN DAILY DAY" At: 6 Hang Trong street, Hoan Kiem dist., Hanoi, Vietnam
(REPORTED ON Vietnam Television VTV3 )
10- April-2011: Big opening:" Welcome to a new hanoi" group at: 95 Giang Van Minh - Ba Dinh - Ha Noi
June- 2011 : Exhibition group "IM" at Long Bien, Hanoi, Vietnam
July- 2011: Exhibition group "To" ( Mot Gang Tay) at Gia Lam, Hanoi, Vietnam
2010: Participant in “ALBB media artshow” at 42 Ly Tu Trong, Distric 1, Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam.
2009: Participant in “Graffiti Underground Party” at Saigon Port - District 4 -Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam.
2008: Solo Exhibition “Behind” at Hoi Vu Studio, 32 Hoi Vu STR– Hanoi- Vietnam
2008: Participant in “Umbrella Decoration Program”-in Hoi An – Quang Nam –Da Nang – Vietnam.
2007: Participant in “Art Festival of Young Artists” -at 42 Yet Kieu str – Hanoi – Vietnam
2007: Participant in “Graffiti Festival” in Hoi An – Quang Nam – Da Nang - Vietnam
2006: Participant in the performance art event "Dom Dom" at Hoang Hoa Tham str ., Hanoi – Vietnam.
2006: Painting Exhibition "Impression of Hoi An" in Hoi An – Quang Nam –Da Nang – Vietnam
(one of my paintings was purchased by Hoi An Art Museum)
2005: Solo Exhibition - Installation ART and Video Art "012310399"at 1A Trang Tien STR. - Hanoi – Vietnam
2005: Installation "Art around me" at Nha San Studio – Hoang Hoa Tham - Hanoi – Vietnam
2005: participant in "Performance Art Festival” at Nha San Studio - Hoang Hoa Tham STR. - Hanoi, Vietnam 2005
2004: "Vietnam performance art -Lim Dim" Festival. - January
2024 Group Exhibiton Devouring - Curated by Larys Frogier
Hong Kong Central Space - Central Space - 10/F, H Queen's,-80 Queen's Road
Central, Hong Kong
October 18 - November 19, 2024
https://www.tangcontemporary.com/devouring-kizzo-and-nguyen-duc-loi-hk-central
2023: Toghether Yes Alone
Group Exhibition Vietnamese _ Denmark artist (Thao Dien - HCMC
Alpha Art Station gallery
271/5 Nguyen Trong Tuyen Str. Phu Thuan W., HCM
Installation ART and Video Art "012310399"at 1A Trang Tien STR. - Hanoi – Vietnam
