"Flutist" painted with oil on canvas, one of the 53 paintings on display at the exhibition. (Photo courtesy of Nguyen Quang Thieu) Flutist includes 53 paintings in oil, watercolour and pastel, showing hisvarious imaginations of the flute.
There are also other images repeated in his works, mostly the symbolic imagesof villages such as ceramic pots and gourd plants.
For a long time, Thieuhas been known as a famous writer, poet, as well as artist in both music andpainting.
He has had paintings exhibited in many art exhibitions and drawn illustrationsfor his poems and for other writers. But this is his first solo exhibition.
“The name of the exhibition is also related to a story in my life. Those werethe days when I had a sadness that I couldn't get rid of," Thieu said.
“One morning a blind flutist passed by where I sat for coffee. With all duerespect, I asked him to play a song that I liked best. He looked at me for along time with his blind eyes and finally he did it."
“In the months that followed, I was always sitting at that sidewalk hoping tosee the blind flutist again. But I never saw him again.”
According to Thieu,the flute can be formed in very diverse ways in the imagination.
Thieu started painting in 2005and had his first paintings in group exhibition with other writers at theVietnam Fine Arts Museum in 2005. Then he stopped painting until 2012.
After that, he attended many exhibitions with a group of artists called G39.
The exhibition, organised by the group of NhanSy Ha Dongwith artist Le Thiet Cuong as a curator, willlast until January 15 at 42 YetKieu Street./.
VNA
