Sculpture Exhibition “Seven”
Opening: Sat 20 Jul, 6 pm
Exhibition: 20 – 26 Jul 2013
Nguyen Art Gallery
No 31 Van Mieu road, Hanoi
Come to the “Seven” sculpture exhibition by the group of 7 sculptors: Phạm Bảo Sơn, Đoàn Hữu Ngà, Trần An, Hoàng Mai Thiệp, Phạm Văn Tuấn, Lương Trịnh, Phan Văn Hưởng.
Critic Vu Lam commented about the artists and exhibition: “…They were well trained in the professional art environment, have reached the mature in their ages as well as their job. They have learned from practice and worked many years. Their confident desire in art meeting in the full exhibition called “Seven”. A short name which sounds rough like the sculptors’ personalities, they have passion in creating artworks with their burning heart, intellective, open minded.
They are, back with the sculptures of small and medium and return to the “spirit cover size” of the Vietnamese people from the old age. But to put in modern architecture, it makes sense that would have make shocked by the artwork themselves…”
ASEAN Music Festival 2013
Sat 20 Jul 2013, 6 pm
Darts Darts Darts
224 Pasteur, Q3, TP HCM
You are invited to the music night with 18 bands from 6 Asian countries in HCMC. Free entrance.
18 bands performing at the show include the following names:
*SS240Z (from Saigon) – [Melodic Hard Core]
*GOLDEN PUMPERS (from Saigon) – [Good Japanese Songs]
*SPIKE’S (from Saigon) – [Blues]
*Vietcorn (from Hanoi) – [Unicorn]
*STEEL SAIGON (from Saigon) – [Heavy Metal]
*L.C.L (from Saigon) – [Japanese Visual-Kei Rock]
*HEIMER’S (from Hanoi) – [J-Blues]
*MILO (from Siem Reap) – [Siem Reap attractive Band]
*南城秀樹”NJP” (from Phnom Penh) – [Japanese Comic Song]
*Boomerang Fried Rice (from Saigon) – [Post Rock]
*鯔背＊いなせ”Inase”（from Bangkok) – [Char]
*黒いK”Black K” (from Hanoi) – [Black J-Pop]
*負け犬”Make Inu” (from Saigon) – [Green Day, Queen, Bon Jovi]
*遠距離バンド”Asean Special Unit” (from Cambodia, Saigon, Hanoi and Bangkok) – [Special Unit]
*やまやまだ”YamaYamada” (from Jakarta and Saigon) – [Hard Rock]
*Awaken Dog***RED ALART (from Bangkok) – [Hard Rock]
*UNIT HIRO (from Saigon) – [Famous Saigon Music Performer]
*TIPS LIPS
Screening of “La Princesse de Montpensier”
Fri 19 Jul 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
From L’Espace:
You are invited to the film screening “The Montpensier Princess” (France, 2010, 2h19 min) of director Bertrand Tavernier. The film touches upon the topic “when infatuation messes up an arranged marriage”.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Screening of “Pièce Montée”
Fri 26 Jul 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the screening of “Pièce montée” (France, 2010, 99 mins) directed by Denys Granier-Deferre, starred by: Clémence Poésy, Jérémie Renier, Jean-Pierre Marielle. According to La Croix newspaper, this is “An attractive comedy with impeccable distribution”.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles.
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
A Physical Theatre “Mahabharata” by Hiroshi Koike
Tue 16 Jul 2013, 7.30 pm
Youth Theatre
11 Ngo Thi Nham Str, Hanoi
In celebration of 40th Year of ASEAN – Japan Friendship and Cooperation as well as the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013, the Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project, Cambodia’s Amrita Performing Arts and the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, sponsored by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, proudly present a physical theatre “Mahabharata” on Tuesday 16 July 2013 in Hanoi.
Mahabharata is an ancient Indian epic originally written in Sanskrit and has been regarded as the Hindu Bible, the resource of Indian philosophy, moral, politics and law. It is the story of a dynastic struggle that provides a social, moral and cosmological background to the climactic battle and covers all categories of storytelling, as the famous phrase in Mahabharata says:
What is found herein may also be found in other sources,
What is not found herein does not matter.
This gigantic epic is, thus, a treasure house of ancient wisdom and can be an excellent reference to think about human nature, which motivated Hiroshi Koike, a highly revered Japanese director, to bring on stage.
The characters in the story will be performed mainly by Cambodian actors/actresses equipped with traditional dance, backed up by a Japanese Bali dancer, a Japanese Ballet dancer and a Malaysian Butoh dancer. Each performer will play several roles by changing wearing masks. The story will be delivered mainly through physical movements topped with some music and summary of the story on screen.
We do hope that Hiroshi Koike’s ambitious attempt will inspire you not only in purely artistic sense but also to re-think about what is human nature.
This stage performance is free admission but you are required to get free advanced tickets which will be distributed from 2pm on Friday 28 June at the Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi/TEL 04-3944-7419) .
Music Night with Japanese, British and Vietnamese Bands
Sat 27 Jul 2013, 7.30 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho
The Onion Cellar presents to you: ZENI GEVA (Japan), KK NULL (Japan), RUINS ALONE (Japan), AUGUSTORY (Vietnam), GENTLE OHM (UK).
ZENI GEVA (JAPAN)
Before it became hip and trendy to like bands from Japan there were a handful of artists from this country pushing the sonic envelope, de-constructing and then re-building ‘music’ and were, in general, part of a new vanguard of noise makers. One such pioneering group of innovators is ZENI GEVA (roughly translated as ‘someone who would do anything to get money’), whose current line-up includes Kazuyuki Kishino (guitars, vocals, Kaoss-pad) – one of Japan’s most well-known ‘noise terrorists’ alongside Merzbow and Keiji Haino; and Tatsuya Yoshida (drums, Kaoss-pad) – ‘master drummer of the Japanese underground’.
One of Japan’s more eccentric and intriguing extreme music exports ever since the late ’80s and the ’90s, self-professed progressive hardcore duo ZENI GEVA fuses elements of death metal, hardcore, industrial music, noise rock, progressive rock and avant-garde music, gaining no small underground recognition in the process while getting described as ‘Motorhead meets King Crimson’ and recording/collaborating with the legendary studio engineer Steve Albini (who has been producing records for all sorts of luminaries of alternative music: Nirvana, Pixies, MONO, Neurosis, Slint, Shannon Wright, Melt-Banana, etc).
Their popularity in the West enabled them to be one of the first Japanese ‘underground’ bands to tour the States on various occasions with bands like The Pain Teens, Melvins, Crash Worship, Ed Hall and Shellac, and to play at a number of cult music festivals the names of which should by now, perhaps, be familiar with readers of Onion Cellar’s press releases: All Tomorrow’s Parties, Supersonic Festival, and an upcoming appearance at this month’s Poland’s Unsound Festival (at a stage curated by Sunn O’s Stephen O’Malley).
In 2009, second original drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (who was part of ZENI GEVA in 1989/1990 and contributed to their debut album “Maximum Money Monster” came back and brought with him even more complexity and hyper energy. As they continue to create and innovate, ZENI GEVA remains in the forefront of this still-emerging global scene of underground outfits.
KK NULL (JAPAN)
KK NULL (real name : Kazuyuki Kishino) is one of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a larger context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early 80′s.
In 1981 KK NULL studied at Butoh dancer Min Tanaka’s ‘Mai-Juku’ workshop and started his career by performing guitar improvisations in the clubs of Tokyo. He continued by collaborating with Merzbow for two years, and joining the band YBO2 (with Masashi Kitamura, chief editer of Fool’s Mate magazine and Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of RUINS) and various other projects of the underground scene.
In the early 90′s he gained world-wide recognition as the mastermind, guitarist and singer of the progressive hardcore band ZENI GEVA.
After playing the guitar as his main instrument for nearly thirty years, KK NULL has gradually moved towards a more electronic approach. He has concentrated his efforts on exploring the outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythms, scattered pitch sculptures (for installations), droning isolationist material which could be described as ‘cosmic noise maximal/minimalism’.
RUINS ALONE (JAPAN)
A one-man performance that has to be seen to be believed.
Without a doubt, Tatsuya Yoshida has been one of the most important drummers of the Japanese music scene since the final decades of the 20th century, having spearheaded at least a half dozen of that country’s most important groups. Perhaps best-known among these would be RUINS: this group’s unique basic instrumentation of drums and bass was no less than a palace revolt against the established role of the rhythm section.
RUINS plays a unique form of manic and twisted progressive rock. Bandleader/drummer/singer Yoshida credits such diverse influences as progressive rock stalwarts Magma, Pink Floyd, Gong, King Crimson, Yes, classical composers like Chopin, and traditional throat singing from Tuva. Though these influences often come through in the RUINS sound, there is no mistaking RUINS for anyone else. Many RUINS compositions employ odd time signatures, sudden tempo changes, and passages of heavily processed noise. Vocals are meant to be nonsensical (and that’s how they sound) and are usually improvised, as are portions of the songs. The overall sound is chaotic yet precise, noisy yet harmonious, catchy yet repelling, frenetic yet disciplined.
After the departure of fourth bassist Hisashi Sasaki, Tatsuya Yoshida forged on with RUINS as a solo act, performing live as RUINS ALONE and releasing the album Alone in 2011. RUINS ALONE has no bassist – Yoshida samples and synthesises sounds to accompany his ballistic drumming and singing, using elements of everything from sheer noise to disco and pop.
AUGUSTORY (VIETNAM)
Music for the breezy midsummer nights of adolescence.
Consisting of 5 young musicians that have been playing important roles in the success of CUỘC SỐNGS, NURANIUM and other Hanoian projects in recent years, alternative rock band AUGUSTORY brings in some much-needed freshness to the Vietnamese rock scene. With a melodic yet powerful approach that recalls, at the same time, the minimalism of Interpol and early-U2 (when that band used to be ok) as well as the edgy riffs of hardcore groups, with lyrics inspired by their own youth and seemingly the youth of a whole nation, the band immediately garners a considerable fanbase through performances at Battle of the Bands 2013. Meanwhile, singer Nông Tiến Bắc appears on the Vietnam edition of The Voice as a contestant (this might be one of the only times ‘Onion Cellar’ and ‘The Voice’ appear in the same paragraph).
At Onion Cellar, we dig young passionate talented people who dare to think and dream. Very pleased to have 5 such people at this show, where AUGUSTORY will be premiering a whole set of new unreleased songs. COME SUPPORT THEM.
GENTLE OHM (UK)
Taking its name after a unit of electrical resistance which took its name after the German physicist Georg Simon Ohm, GENTLE OHM is and is not quite what it says on the tin. A new project from Hanoi-based noise enthusiast Josh Kopecek, GENTLE OHM could easily be amongst the British composer’s (who, in the past, has been writing contemporary classical suites, playing Brazilian music with his band Xeomistas, or bending out of homemade circuit boards) most electronic, adventurous and elaborate offerings to date.
But are they ‘gentle’? Of course not. What we encounter is an ominously cavernous blanket of noise, interwoven with hauntological samples from bygone eras of traditional Vietnamese music, dipped in modern industrial colors, then manically live-processed in between dub-like beats into elaborate streams of consciousness. The resulting maelstrom is a canopy of dappled light over and through the sound with which he works.
Listen to their soundcloud.
TICKETS
EARLY BIRD: 50K VND
(please register for early bird tickets – DEADLINE: 23:59 ON JULY 18)
CONCESSION for holders of valid Vietnamese student IDs: 100K VND (available at doors)
Everyone else: 150K VND
Film-making Workshop with HARUN FAROCKI
Workshop with HARUN FAROCKI: 19 – 30 Aug 2013
Deadline to register: 31 Jul 2013
In Aug 2013, at Hanoi DOCLAB, Harun Farocki, one of the most important documentary filmmakers in German and all over the world, will conduct his project and hold a film-making workshop called “Labor in a Single Shot.”
The program is designed exclusively to Vietnamese. For more information, please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Contemporary Ca Tru Perfomance
Wed 17 Jul 2013, 9 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
The latest project from the mercurial Nguyễn Thùy Dung is a reworking of Ca Trù. Considered one of Vietnam’s finest musical art forms and registered as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Vietnam by UNESCO, Ca Trù is about to get torn up and stuck back together again by one of its brightest traditional young stars.
Using traditinal Ca Trù as their jumping off point, the group have promised to “phá hết” – destroy everything – before the evening is over.
Dung doesn’t mind reinventing tradition. Since graduating from the Hanoi Conservatory of Music in 2012, she’s taken her đàn Tranh to places it’s never been before. From electronic chill outs with Vũ Nhật Tan, to pounding Mali rhythms, to an indie collaboration with the Guillemots, to astral adventures with Tone Ripples and even experimental improvised electronica with Lương Huệ Trinh, Dung has done almost everything she can to drag Vietnamese music in to the 21st Century.
Completing the Ca Trù trio are sisters Nguyễn Thu Thủy on đàn Đáy (a long necked 3-stringed lute) and Nguyễn Thùy Chi who sings and keeps the groups rhythm on Phách. For over six years the sisters have been studying and practicing Ca Trù in an effort to preserve the ancient art form.
Entry VND 50,000. Concert from 9pm
Exhibition “Obsession from Daily Day”
Opening: Mon 15 Jul, 5.30 pm
Exhibition: 15 – 30 Jul 2013
Art Tunnel Gallery
6 Hang Trong Str, Hanoi
Tel: 84-4-39382303
Opening hours: 9 am – 8 pm or by appointment
Come to the exhibition “Obsession from Daily Day” by artist Nguyen Duc Loi. His daily work is an obsession. The artist does not like to be managed; he wants the free thinking spirit. That the daily order just as children need nutrition and tuition; wives need supplies; elders need health care; and artists by themselves need to be free to create is really conflict demanding obsession.
These simple emotionless commands, like square box keys, when we go through it, take risks and live with injustice, have flashed a new spirit of respect – Nguyen Duc Loi’s.
The feeling that comes from a straight line across the horizon, the surreal perspective of heaven and earth, and all things that inspire poetry. In contrast with these thoughts, the Italian poet, Aeronwy Thomas, used painting to illustrate his message.
We believe you will appreciate his work. The spontaneous soul and passion flourish through his exhibitions. His art work should be presented at Art Tunnel gallery, No.6 Hang Trong St., Hanoi from 15 to 30 July 2013. Your presentation on the open day at 5.30 pm 15 July 2013 should be highly appreciated!
Art Tunnel gallery specializes in collecting Vietnamese paintings for introduction to art lovers at home and abroad. Vietnamese art is highly appreciated by international friends with senior generation of painters trained at the France based school Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de L’Indochine in the early twentieth century. The Masters have applied the essence of European fine art and to Vietnamese aesthetic that really has become the cultural bridge bringing Vietnam to the world and vice versa.
Located in Hang Trong, an ancient street in the center of Hanoi, Art Tunnel is proud to mount exciting exhibitions to the foreigners visiting Vietnam. The name of the street also refers to the stable of traditional painting established 400 years old – “Tranh Hang Trong”.
Chase Hanoi 2013 – The Dreams I Chase
Opening: Fri 19 Jul, 9 am
Exhibition: 19 – 21 Jul 2013, 9 – 12 am and 2 – 5 pm
Work Room Four
Building E, Floor 4
9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi
Following our success in 2011 and 2012 events, Chase Hanoi is pleased to bring to visitors and participants this year’s Chase Hanoi art gallery under the the theme “The Dreams I Chase”, inspired by the short story of the same name by author Nguyen Ngoc Thuan.
Assembling together 69 art pieces by over 50 contributors, Chase Hanoi wishes to create a platform for communication, exchange, and exploration for young art enthusiasts. Each flickering of light, each second captured on screen tells a story about the artist, and about our own selves.
Chase Hanoi 2013 1
Chase Hanoi art gallery brought together many creative works from very distinct perspectives, each offering multiple interpretations of the individual passions and desires. Behind every selected photo is a reflection of a meaningful life, when the individual, in pursuit towards the realization of their own dreams, confront obstacles and limitations.
Chase Hanoi is also pleased to offer many merchandises, hand-made by our very own organizing team, for sale. All profits gathered will be sent to Chase Hanoi charity fund.
Our event motto: WOLO: We Only Live Once!
Email: chasehanoi@gmail.com
Exhibition Dó10
Opening: Sat 20 Jul, 6 pm
Exhibition: 20 – 25 Jul 2013
HCMC Fine Arts Museum
97A Pho Duc Chinh, D1, HCMC
Dó10 is a retrospective exhibition featuring selected paintings and installation works created by Le Hien Minh over the last decade, all of which utilize traditional Vietnamese handmade Do paper as the central medium. Dó10 illustrates the progression of Le Hien Minh’s creativity from her early 2D experiments with Do paper, to her large scale sculptures of today.
Do paper is a material traditionally used in the creation of Dong Ho paintings, a type of folk woodcut painting which originates in Dong Ho village in Bac Ninh Provence, Northern Vietnam. It is a natural paper created by the bark of the Do tree (Rhamnoneuron balansae).
Although the Do paper is the central medium in Le Hien Minh’s work, her overall body of work appears to have been created using a diversity of materials.For example, the material of “Birds” 2009 appears to be stone and “Home” 2004 appears to be rusty metal. This diversity of appearance is a natural outcome of Minh’s art making process, which engages natural elements such as rain, humidity, sun,etc., to generate unpredictable outcomes.
Le Hien Minh, through her use of Do Paper, offers a new perspective on a traditional Vietnamese material. In Le Hien Minh’s work, the material acts as a bridge between contemporary Vietnamese/Global culture, and Vietnamese art history and traditional culture.
About the artsit
Le Hien Minh is a female artist who was born after 1975 in Ha Noi and grew up in Sai Gon. She studied traditional lacquer painting at the HCMC Fine Art University, then transferredto, and graduated from, the Art Academy of Cincinnati in the United States majoring in Fine Art. Today, Le Hien Minh lives and works between Ho Chi Minh City and New York City.