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Teaser exposition de hom nguyen le combat du sie cle
Hom nguyen espace yoyo du palais de tokyo paris juin 2016
Biography
Although he was interested in drawings and portrait art at a very young age, Hom Nguyen's modest background meant that daily responsibilities delayed his entry into the art world. Hom Nguyen decided to start his own business as a leather patina artist in 2009, in which was the year of his mother's death. He was working originally as a shoe salesman.
Contents
- Teaser exposition de hom nguyen le combat du sie cle
- Hom nguyen espace yoyo du palais de tokyo paris juin 2016
- Biography
- Technique
- Artwork
- Noteworthy Artworks
- Exhibitions
- References
After a difficult start, he developed his own technique, and developed it further during a few months in Tokyo and Japan, learning from great masters of the tattoo in Shibuya. In France, his work focused on patinas, colors and material and he became known for "works of art you can wear."
Many collaborations (notably one with the designer Ora-Ito in 2011) guided him further into the world of design and art. In 2009, Nguyen moved into a large workshop in Bagnolet, allowing him to start portraits on large format canvases. Since then, Hom Nguyen has devoted himself to drawing and painting. His works are increasingly exposed to the world through international contemporary art exhibitions.
On the occasion of the 2016 edition of the contemporary art fair Art Paris Art Fair, held at the Grand Palais in Paris, French President François Hollande came to appreciate Hom Nguyen's work. On June 15, 2016, Hom Nguyen presented for the first time the series "Sans Repères" in the Palais de Tokyo.
Since 2016, Hom Nguyen has led a workshop of drawing and painting at the psychiatric ward of the hospital of the Pitié-Salpêtrière with adolescent patients in Professor David Cohen's unit.
Technique
Hom Nguyen is a self-taught artist whose work is characterized by an instinctive and lively style. He uses many different materials such as oil, acrylic, ink, felt gouache and charcoal. Colors and movement are projected onto the canvas in the same visual manner that is characteristic of Jenny Saville's treatment of the flesh. Hom can also be linked with the figurative art of Lucian Freud, due to his expressive touch and tendency to torture and layer his material. However, Hom Nguyen offers a new pictorial vocabulary that is more emotional than that of Freud. The artist creates most of his works on canvas with a brush, pen, and knife.
Artwork
With no formal academic training, Hom Nguyen rejects conformity, insisting on the idea that the artist does not paint to please. Hom's work on a series of penciled masks particularly focused on the look of Asian children without mouths, is the result of a purely mental projection. Working without a human model, Hom Nguyen solely relies on his memory and emotion of the moment to draw the face of the child he used to be : a child born to an immigrant mother, one of "boat people".
Hom Nguyen's works, including pencil masks, are part of the transition between figurative and abstract art which serves to question the boundaries between material and intellect, emotion and questioning. Indeed, behind the profusion of features and vividness of performance present in his work, the public discover faces that automatic writing emphasizes the lightness of line and the depth of the image. The series "Sans Repères" and "Inner Cry" continue to pay tribute to the mother of the artist and the history of immigration. Each one takes the audience to experience the pains and nightmares experienced by these children and illustrate the interpretation of our subconscious dreams: in one hand, the desire to establish a first human contact necessarily requires a look; in the other hand, shout for help is not necessarily echoes. No sound, only the inner cry remains.
Noteworthy Artworks
Exhibitions
Since 2014, the works of Hom Nguyen are part of the permanent collection of A2Z Art Gallery