Colors of soul
By Binh Nguyen in HCMC
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| A painting of Phi Loan to be on display at "The Colors of the Soul" in HCMC - Photo: Courtesy of Phi Loan |
Seasoned artist Nguyen Thi Phi Loan will reveal her collage artwork in an exhibition themed “The Colors of the Soul” at the HCMC Exhibition House on Le Thanh Ton Street in District 1 starting tomorrow.
The week-long exhibition features more than 70 paintings of fabric and paper pieces the 62-year-old artist has arranged over the past decade based on what she has felt, seen and experienced in life.
As the show is called, the exhibits reflect the internal life of modern women, with their love and compassion, sulkiness, anxieties, fears, and all the states of feelings and senses of a woman.
Phi Loan said she would donate 50% of the proceeds from the opening day of the exhibition to Be Tho (Children) Charity in Dong Nai Province, which is now home to 100 orphans and disadvantaged children.
On March 3, the artist presented a collage painting to WWF Vietnam for auction. This painting fetched VND60 million, which will be spent on activities in support of Earth Hour 2010 in Vietnam.
Phi Loan was born and grew up in the central province of Binh Dinh. She learned collage art in the Japanese city of Osaka in 1999, and oil painting in Hanoi in 2000 and Virginia in the United States in 2004.
Phi Loan has organized a number of individual exhibitions over the years, including “Colors” in Hanoi in 2005 and “Simple Things” and “Inspiration” between 2007 and 2008.