LUU CONG NHAN
(1931-2007)

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1931  Born in Lau Thuong, Vietnam

Master lecturer Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College

Laureate of Vienna Biennale, Vienna, Austria

Participated in solo and group exhibitions Vietnam, China, Eastern and Western Europe

Studied under To Ngoc Van, the master of Vietnamese oil painting

Awards:

1951, 1960 the third prize of National Fine Art Exhibition

Exhibitions

2007  Women Painters, Painted Women in the National Fine Arts Museum of Vietnam

2001  Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art, Wilfrid Israel Museum

2000  Mekong Magic, Jerusalem Theater Israel

1951  3rd National Exhibition of Fine Arts (3rd prize), Vietnam

Public Collections:

The Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum, Viet Nam

There is a self-confident Luu Cong Nhan and there is another Luu Cong Nhan tormented by gnawing doubts. "The path I’m following is absolutely right, art is not supposed to be repetitive". "Sometimes, in retrospection, I find that everything I’ve created during the last thirty years is just worth dumping into the refuse bin".

Such is Luu Cong Nhan - so promising, so talented, so vagrant, so hopeless and so despairingly passionate ...

There is a Luu Cong Nhan, foot-loose and fancy-free stroller who wanders on every path of creation, experimenting every form of expression, exploring every field from Dong Ho prints, Chinese - style painting to expressionism, fauvism, abstractionism.