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Painting exhibition shows French artist’s love for Vietnam

An exhibition by Vietnamese-French painter Vincent Monluc is underway in Ho Chi Minh City, featuring art paintings depicting Vietnamese nature, people and daily life.
Painting exhibition shows French artist’s love for Vietnam ảnh 1A painting on Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City by Vincent Monluc, which is on display at the exhibition "Dream." (Photo: dantri.com.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – An exhibition by Vietnamese-French painter Vincent Monluc is underway in Ho Chi Minh City, featuring art paintingsdepicting Vietnamese nature, people and daily life.

The exhibition named “Dream” will be running through January20 at Ngo Art Gallery at 21 Vo Truong Toan Street in Thu Duc City.

On display are 95 watercolour and oil paintings created bythe 70-year-old artist over the last five years, through which he conveyed hisdeep love for his homeland Vietnam. Some of them describe the beauty of naturallandscapes in Vietnam while others depict daily life of urban Vietnamese.

Painting exhibition shows French artist’s love for Vietnam ảnh 2A visitor takes a look at the exhibited paintings. (Photo: dantri.com.vn)
Monluc was born in Vietnam in 1952. He and his family leftVietnam to live in France when he was just 12 years old. He graduated from theFrench National School of Decorative Arts (École nationale supérieure des ArtsDécoratifs) with a degree in cinema.

He returned to Vietnam to establish a company for animationproduction in HCM City in 1994 and decided to settle down in his motherland in2019./.

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