Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn is an artist and filmmaker whose work throws into relief specific cultural, political and historical contexts. After studying at the University of California, Irvine, and at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, Nguyễn began to produce work at the intersection of conceptual art and performance often exploring issues of danger and confrontation in contemporary visual culture. his practice ranges from film and video to painting, and from dynamic installation to interventions in the public sphere. Nguyễn's films have been screened at festivals including 'Bangkok Democrazy: The 4th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival' in 2005; the Singapore International Film Festival in 2005; and the Chicago Asian American Film Festival in 2000 and 2002.
Proposal for an imaginary Vietnamese landscape #1–3 2006, along with the video work Spray It, Don't Say It 2006, comment on the battle currently taking place on urban walls in Vietnam between socialist murals and posters (the only official public art) and fast-proliferating capitalist advertising. Nguyễn’s works also imagine and document the insertion of graffiti into the visual mix. Commissioned paintings of specific city locales are tagged with graffiti interventions; the short video documents the artist's exploration of nascent graffiti art practices in Vietnam, as well as the realisation of the project. Since the success of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat's graffiti-influenced paintings in the 1980s, the specific aesthetics of graffiti have been recognised within contemporary art. Most graffiti artists, however, paint not on canvas but on the skin of the city. Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn's project explores the current struggle in Vietnam's public city spaces between competing ideological and aesthetic worlds.
Gallery 1.1, GoMA
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