Paintings were painted on iron beds at field hospitals. Photo: Cu Lu Tea
Personal exhibition Okay okay (OK Fine) by Bui Chat opens on October 8 at Lele Atelier, 419 La Xuan Oai, Truong Thanh Ward, Thu Duc City.
Okay okay (OK Fine) is the 5th solo exhibition of artist Bui Chat, including 31 oil paintings on canvas, in the form of dad beds, arranged haphazardly in space utilized from a garden cafe.
Paintings displayed at the garden cafe
The author reused old bed frames, collected from many different sources, including field hospitals, to create these uniquely shaped paintings.
OK Fine is the way the author reacts, as an automatic mechanism, to difficulties, tensions, constraints, deadlocks, overlapping memories, and even everyday worries and invisible obsessions… often came back and followed the author throughout the project implementation period from June until the end of September.
OK Fine It is also the author’s way of reassuring himself, to bring himself back to a state of balance in everyday life.
Talking about the experience during this practice, Bui Chat shared: “Drawing is a more suitable way to fill the emptiness in the mind than using paint to cover the canvas.”
Works by Bui Chat
Bui Chat from his first appearance in painting in July 2022 with the exhibition Improvisationwas rated as “has a strong, youthful, and vibrant abstract style” (poet Hoang Hung).
Bui Chat studied and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in literature, then a bachelor’s degree in law. Before becoming a professional artist, Bui Chat was a former poet.
Painter and poet Bui Chat
After many times having to abandon the path of painting, Bui Chat picked up his brush again in 2019 and is currently advocating a separate painting style called situational painting.
Talk about this school of painting Dr. Nguyen Thi Tu Huy commented: “Bui Chat’s painting indeed puts the viewer before an erasure of ideas. It is almost impossible to see the fixed ideas that can be suggested from the paintings. And People also do not see the preparation process for each work… does not follow any meaningful structure. The author’s main emphasis is on experiencing freedom both in creative work and in enjoying the work. “.
And art critic Nguyen Hung said: “… The concept of “situation” given by Bui Chat suggests to me some other thoughts with more general meaning when facing “abstract” works. . Bui Chat’s abstraction, with its pure “autonomous language” of shapes and colors, is truly a kind of psychological realism. Each painting reveals a state of mind, representing a truth. somewhere in the hidden corners of my soul…”.
