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Albus Lux Contemporary

- solo show -

Mill Hillplein 17, 4701 BS Roosendaal, Netherlands

www.albuslux.nl

September, 27, 2015

-Exhibition views here-

LE MONDE, June 18 th 2015

This is a drawing exhibition, not far from two hundred, inked or pencilled. They cover three walls of the gallery, occasionally painted black. The most of them are portraits, including those of Marlene Dietrich, Mahatma Gandhi, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jules Caesar and Batman, easily recognizable. There are also some unknowns, octopus, a moody Cyclops and various monsters. However, this might not be what we first see as the most astonishing remains in the extreme diversity of graphic styles, juxtaposed by a deliberately chaotic installation. Truc-Anh, 32 years old, appears to be as comfortable with Goya as he is with Dix, with Hokusai as he is with Warhol. He knows them so well there is nothing laborious in its variations, drawn with a speed and remarkable freedom of movement. Also, it is less a drawings exhibition to look one by one than an installation that plays with heterogeneity, contradictions and tensions created from one work to another. It says a lot about the current state of art, its memory saturated of references and the need to get out of it. To achieve this, Truc-Anh chose to smash through in order to disperse it : this might not be a bad method. “

Philippe Dagen

TELERAMA, July 2015

Entre le cabinet de curiosités et la chambre d'ado à ranger dare-dare, Truc-Anh, né en 1983, a transformé de fond en comble la petite galerie Sator. Sur des murs repeints à la peinture noire, l'artiste, qui vit entre Paris et Hô Chi Minh, a troussé une installation où sont tapissées des œuvres sur papier, des dessins de petits formats de styles et de factures très différents, des pages de croquis, des lavis à l'encre, des portraits ou des scènes venues de la presse ou de livres ou encore des images issues d'Internet. Un piquant maelström d'images dont la saturation évoque, et plagie à sa façon, notre (pas) très évidente et moderne époque…

Laurent Boudier

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LES BRANCHES. June 2015

Interview by Dorianne Giuili

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LES JEUDIS ARTY,  June 2015 

Interview by Claire Moloux

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PECLERS PARIS

"De quoi rêvez vous lorsque la bienséance sociale ne vous conditionne pas à sélectionner vos idées les plus appropriées ? Cette harmonie chaotique est en chacun de nous mais nous en somme déconnectés. Nous sommes tous victimes d'une auto censure inculquée dès le début de nos scolarisés. Lorsque je travaille, j'essaie de ne pas hiérarchiser, de ne pas cataloguer les styles car tout ça existe en moi.

Peu importe la direction du chemin pourvu que les pas soient réels."

Truc-Anh

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BFM TV

Vincent Sator, guest of the TV Show "Chercheur d'Art" on BFM Business TV

talks about the exhibition "Ink Kingdom".

 June 20th, 2015

DRAWING NOW PARIS

CARRE DU TEMPLE

- Art Fair - represented by Galerie Sator

www.galeriesator.com

www.drawingnowparis.com

March 25 - 29, 2015

CODA MUSEUM

Sound of Silence

Group show curated by Wim Van de Beek

- Exhibition views here - 

VTC 10 - Documentary

Documentary produced and published on

Vietnamese TV Channel VT10. March 2014

ASIA ART PACIFIC - Almanac 2014 and Almanac 2015

Yearly publication by Asia Art Pacific, Hong Kong

www.artasiapacific.com

Established in 1993, ArtAsiaPacific magazine is the leading English-language periodical covering contemporary art and culture from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. 

Since 2005, AAP has produced an annual Almanac edition, published in January, which surveys the past year in the 67 countries and territories covered in the magazine. In addition to news, exhibition, festival and country reports, the Almanac features special sections such as Five Plus One, which spotlights five outstanding artists from the previous year and one promising artist for the next year, and Reflections, a set of essays written by prominent curators and cultural figures.

The evolution of Contemporary Art in Vietnam

Seminar  at CCIFV La Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Française au Vietnam

December 16, 2014

15e étage, Landmark, 5B Tôn Duc Thang, Ben Nghe Ward District 1

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

ART PARIS - Art Fair

Presented by Galerie Sator

www.galeriesator.com

Activation / Passivation

Public Talk  at GALERIE QUYNH

June 14, 2014

65 De Tham Street, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

www.galeriequynh.com

"The Game of Faith" by Lisa Gerven

Essay by Lisa Gerven,  Curator  MUKHA Museum of Contemporary Art,

Antwerpen, Belgium, 2014

click here for full text

"For a long time, the artist was seen as somebody who had access to the true nature of life, the genuine, higher truth, maybe even to the sublime. It was his job to make this knowledge comprehensible for the common man. Truc-Anh, however, does something radically different. What Truc-Anh shows is the confusing part of life. "

Artist Pension Trust Spotlight

 Interview  by Lidia Fabian for Artist Pension Trust Global, 2013

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 "Q - What do you mean by enigma ?
 A - I believe that a painting has to challenge you over the course of time. Today, 90% of images are "ready to think". The concept itself has turned into crutches and statements like some slogan. It’s a huge mistake, because the eye of the viewer becomes passive. A piece of art should resist the consumption mechanism."

"The Game of Faith" by Kara Rooney

Essay by Kara Rooney, Associate Editor for the Brooklyn Rail, New York, USA, 2012

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" The poet John Keats referred to this ambiguous resistance as “negative capability.” In the work of Truc-Anh, “negative capability” is registered on a monumental scale, tethering us to our fleeting, fragile, and very human condition."

"Lecture" - ENSAV La Cambre

La Cambre, National School of  Visual Arts, Belgium

Talk host by the Department Painting and 3 Dimensional Research

Brussel, Novembre 11, 2010

- See video here -