The prolonged interventions

Exhibition “Body Bouquet"

Exhibition tentatively titled "Body Bouquet" for Welch Gallery, part of the Georgia State University, in Atlanta, US

Special thanks to Curated : Tuan Andrew Nguyen

  Assistant  :            Phong Nguyen 

       The prolonged interventions

     Series "The prolonged intervention" is the combination of the social variables: human, animals and the particular habitat; those were selected within the theme about the Agent Dioxins Vietnam. The works chain was made in surrealist form and based on the existing data about the children affected by Dioxins that are stored in glass jars with formaldehyde at Tu Du Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City and at Bien Hung Lake District, Dong Nai Province – where the large herbicide was stored for the Operation Rauch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1972. Mr. Long used that prolonged of the intervention in history and recent conflicts for his painting.

    For simplicity, he only used black ink on origin - colour Do paper to simplify his works, which helped to keep the shades of a homogenous environment in the painting surface. Simplify was the foundation for his endeavor in combining the shaping lines and for building up combination of human scenery and animals from what do not exist in reality to present on the surface of paintings. By restructuring the image, restructuring the space, the environment and time, he arranged pieces into the metaphysical form. Strange inspiration helped to create bold compositions and impressive shapes that cannot hardly get confused. At first glance, we can feel the explosion, the whirl, the perforation between animals and humans, the sense of peace mixed up with deep emotional wounds.

    He named “The prolonged intervention " for this series, but it was really about the recall of old memories connected the truth in reality. Mr.Long tried to break down those intense feelings, which were shut deep inside like a solid wall, to overcome the legacy of the Vietnam War; to break down the perceived inability of the society, which keeps modern people to be caught between a rock and a hard place in finding the suitable arrangement of political forces to settle both common issues and problems about Dioxins in Vietnam.

Serie :

The prolonged interventions no1 to no8

Watercolor,pen on Dó paper 

78 x 73 x 5 cm 

2015 

The second times in " The prolonged interventions" exhibited in 

BẤT – PHÂN – THÂN
Opencall exhibition – Introducing 3 young artists: Lê Phi Long – Ngô Đình Bảo Châu – Thành Vinh
Curated by Vũ Đức Toàn 
Opening: 6 p.m. Saturday, 21st, November 2015 
Artist talk: 4 p.m. on the same day
Hanoi Creative City, 1 Luong yen, Hanoi
event : https://www.facebook.com/events/945142282235881