Mr. Andrew Nguyen he is the winner of the eighth edition of the Joan Miró Award, recognition that celebrates artists who maintain the legacy of Joan Miró and his ideas. The award is accompanied by 50,000 euros and the ability to present at the Joan Miró Foundation in a monographic presentation. So, at first glance, it may be surprising that a Vietnamese artist is making art that is similar to the one that Miró cultivated throughout his career. But the entrance door of the exhibition invites us to leave doubt and enter a room full of metal mobile phones (big or small, some gold and some silver) who have a meaning of mironianunstable.
Pep HerreroMr. Andrew Nguyen
However, Nguyen was not inspired by Miró, but by creation Alasdair Calder to make your hanging sculptures. He added his own touch: Nguyen’s cell phones are made by bomb and shell fragments which was used during the Vietnam War, a long and deadly conflict that Calder actively criticized.
Pep HerreroMr. Andrew Nguyen
Given how uncertain a mobile (which is why we hang them over baby quilts), Nguyen’s images speak to us about violence and may remind us explode. Now, they also have a healing side: They are pieces of sound, tuned to emit frequencies with healing properties., similar to those of a gong. Thus, Nguyen’s work invites us to take a path from the trauma of war to collective healing.
Pep HerreroMr. Andrew Nguyen
He was born in Saigon and raised as a refugee in the United States Once the war was over, this artist used his personal experience and the history of his country as the guiding thread in his work. The show continues a tour of some of the most relevant video venues in its recent production. They are all works that study aspects of silent Vietnamese history. The bombs are also the main characters in a special film about the story of a girl and her mother who make a living from the scrap metal business left to them by their deceased father. Other videos are based on individual experiences, such as the family stories of the non-French soldiers sent by the French colonial administration to Vietnam during the so-called first Indochina war, which is shown in a letter to the daughter of one of the those soldiers. , in this case Morocco, sends his father.
Pep HerreroMr. Andrew Nguyen
The exhibition brings us closer to the work of this artist who communicates with the main big names of modern Western art, but at the same time is critical of the history of the West and the disasters that comes from colonialism. It is as if Nguyen continued the idea of artists such as Joan Miró, but changed to conflict in the second half of the century: memory as a form of political struggle and art as a commitment to maintain the identity of endangered cultures. In fact, his reference to Alexander Calder invites a re-reading of the work of this North American artist so closely associated with Joan Miró and Josep Lluís Sert and therefore present in the collection of the Fundació Joan Miro. This work connects to the museum’s collection and the legacy of Joan Miró, who had a deep connection with his homeland.
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2024-05-13 22:03:09
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