Vietnamese Artists | Dinh Quan
Dinh Quan was born in 1964 in Haiphong and graduated from the Hanoi Fine Art College in 1990. The main focus of his lacquer paintings
is the female, which he often depicts in a refined, surrealist style. His ghostlike women sometimes seem sensual or deconstructed at times. Dinh Quan has experimented with innovative approaches to the traditional art of lacquer painting and invented a unique and dynamic style variation to the traditional technique. To create a lacquer painting the sap of the lacquer tree is extracted, mixed with pigments and solvents, and then applied to a flat piece of board previously coated in layers of clay and cloth. The result is a durable and characteristically glossy surface. The traditional way of creating lacquer paintings is to paint layer upon layer in a long and arduous process. Dinh Quan applies a modified technique by mixing lacquer with a variety of substances such as gold, silver and epoxy to achieve a unique surface texture, and to give a three dimensional feel to his paintings. Dinh Quan has exhibited in China (1994), Japan (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), France (1996), Singapore (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002), Norway (1997), Philippines (1997, 1999), Hong Kong (1998, 2001), USA (1997, 1998, 2000), UK (1999, 2002), Thailand - Thavibu Gallery (1998, 2000, 2002, 2004), Taiwan (2000), Malaysia (2001, 2002), Luxembourg (2002) and Belgium (2002). His work is in the collections of the Singapore Art Museum, Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and the National Art Gallery of Malaysia. For more info on Dinh Quan, click Articles |
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