Tran Trong Vu: More Realistic Fictions

TRAN TRONG VU

MORE REALISTIC FICTIONS

M AY 1 5 - J U N E 2 0 , 2 0 2 1

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Dear Friends: Thanks to all for your response to our exhibition with Tran Trong Vu. We have been happy to see his work go to the homes and offices of prior collectors as well as several new ones. It’s truly a privilege for us to represent this artist and place his works in the collections of appreciative friends and clients.

We have been fortunate in being able to obtain additional paintings. We are now offering several new paintings from the artist and others that have been in safe keeping as we continue our exhibition as “More Realistic Fictions.”

In his paintings, Tran Trong Vu shines light to what is often in darkness. His work draws attention to the real conditions of life in an environment where things may not appear as they seem. However, these are works that are not lacking in humor or irony. There are many times when these works make us smile.

His art always make us think, make us consider our own lives and may inspire us to take bolder steps. His voice is strong but the eye he casts is not of scorn but of understanding.

His paintings shed light on oppression, acquiescence and the tension between both.They are never open to simple interpretation. There are multiple meanings in all of his works.

This is life as it is, as we all know it. The good with the bad.

Many people are drawn to the texture of the handmade rice paper works. The texture is far from smooth and convey another level of meaning to the tension in his works.

Finally I must mention the colors. It’s the colors that people notice first. The colors are powerful and eye-catching.

He makes intrepid choices not often seen in combination.

As always, we thank you for your interest in our artists and we welcome all comments and inquiries.

Bob Tobin and Hitoshi Ohashi Tobin Ohashi Gallery tobinohashi.com

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1.“Les Fleurs Bleues” 2020 Acrylic on Handmade Vietnamese Rice Paper 40 cm x 50 cm 50 x 60 cm Framed Acid Free Mat, Black Frame USD $1800 | JPY 190,000

2. “My Illogical Logic” 2021 Acrylic on Handmade Rice Paper.

50 cm x 70 cm 60 cm x 80 cm Framed.

Acid Free Mat, Black Frame JPY 250,000 | $ USD 2300

Tran Trong Vu graduated first in his class from the School of Fine Arts in Vietnam and obtained a scholarship to go to the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts de Paris.

He was a guest artist at the Reims School of Art and Design, a guest professor at the Vietnam School of Fine Arts, a curator and an artistic advisor at Heritage Space in Hanoi.

He was awarded the first prize at the Biennale Austria 2006 and the prestigious Pollock- Krasner grant in New York for the 2011-2012 season.

His work is the subject of numerous books, catalogs and press, including TRAN TRONG VU a Vietnam passerthrough-walls, a 109-page art book, written by François Damon, Editions Maia, Paris 2017.

His works are part of the collection of the Singapore Art Museum, the ASU Art Museum and the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts.

His work beyond aesthetics permeates the obsession with a past that continues. A volume covered with plastic flowers invite visitors to read stories and to get lost in a colorful anxiety. A forest of plastic sheets is suspended from the ceiling to the ground, from which 3D images are emerged. This innovative use of materials creates a trompe-l'oeil effect that leads the visitors into a virtual labyrinth.

Bewildered, they seek the way between characters and colors and are instantly transformed into actors on stage. Playing with visual and psychological effects, his work intentionally gives the visitor experience of excitement and anxiety.

He has had 17 solo exhibitions and 53 group exhibitions. His work has also been exhibited internationally at institutions including ASU Art Museum (Arizona), the National Gallery Singapore, the Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), the Youth Art Palace (Tashkent), Espace Ecureuil – La Foundation pour l’art contemporain (Toulouse), Künstlerhäuser (Worpswede), Casula Powerhouse (Sydney), Stenersen Museum (Oslo), Stiftelsen 314 – International Contemporary Art Foundation (Bergen), Centre d’Art Baie-Saint-Paul (Quebec), Galerie Mirchadani & Steinruecke (Bombay), Islip Art Museum (New York), Museum für Lackkunst (Münster), Espace Paul Ricard (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), le Musée d’art moderne de Paris (Paris), Plum Blossoms Gallery (New York – Hong Kong), Tobin Ohashi Gallery (Tokyo), Tropen Museim (Amsterdam), Watertoren (Vlissingen), Manzi Space (Hanoi), L’Espace – l’Institut Français (Hanoi), Musée Dapper hors les murs (l’île Goree), Whart gallery (Toulouse) Pikto galerija (Zagreb), Musée d’Arst et d’Histoire de Saint Brieuc (Saint Brieuc), Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (California), Cités du livre (Aix-en-provence), Orangerie du Sénat – Jardin du Luxembourg (Paris)...

3. “The True Story” Acrylic on Handmade Rice Paper, 2021 40 cm x 50 cm 50 cm x 60 cm Framed Acid Free Mat, Black Frame JPY 190,000 | $ USD 1800

4. “Don’t Leave Me” Acrylic on Handmade Rice Paper.

40 cm x 50 cm 50 cm x 60 cm Framed.

Acid Free Mat, Black Frame JPY 190,000 | $ USD 1800

“My practice explores different possibilities and multiple dimensions of reality.

Through painting and writing, my work aims to unfold opposing elements in every trivial object of life, the beauty and the ugliness, the existence and the nonexistence, the sadness and the happiness, the visual and the non-visual.

In other words, it embodies my vision of the world and myself.”

Tran Trong Vu

“Yellow Is Not Red” Inquire to info@tobinohashi.com

5. “A Kind of Thinker” Acrylic on Handmade Rice Paper.

40 cm x 50 cm 50 cm x 60 cm Framed Acid Free Mat, Black Frame JPY 190,000 | $ USD 1800

6. Acrylic Painting on Plastic 270 cm x 130 cm $ USD 3300 | JPY 360,000

7.“Avant Garde” Acrylic on Handmade Rice Paper.

50 cm x 70 cm 60 cm x 80 cm Framed Acid Free Mat, Black Frame USD $ 2300 | JPY 250,000

8. Acrylic on Plastic 270 cm x 130 cm $ USD 3300 | JPY 350,000

9. “Realistic Fiction” Mixed Colors on Canvas 30 cm x 40 cm 2020 JPY 250,000 | $ USD 2400

10.“Military Man” Mixed Colors on Canvas 50 cm x 60 cm 2020 JPY 250,000 | $ USD 2400

11. 270 cm x 130 cm Acrylic Painting on Plastic $3300 USD | JPY 350,000

11 “The Sky Is Blue” Acrylic on Handmade Rice Paper.

40 cm x 50 cm 50 cm x 60 cm Framed Acid Free Mat, Black Frame $1800 USD | JPY 190,000

12. Acrylic Paint on Plastic “Exponent” 270 cm x 130 cm x 6 Price on Request

13. “In The Red Planet” Mixed Colors on Canvas 40 cm x 50 cm 2020 JPY 250,000 | $ USD 2400

TRAN TRONG VU MORE REALISTIC FICTIONS

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