Nguyen The Dung (1985)

What has in common among a crowd people but in the same in way of life, in thought, in both habits, tiny acts and a herb of cows? What has in common among a regular docile herb of cows and a regular crowd (people)? With Nguyen The Dung artist, his answer is the plastic image of Cow-Human hybrid. In many years of following arts, the head and the face of a cow, human hands are emphasized, described with light, blended with classical techniques, and repeated in both paintings and sculptures. In contrast, the whole body, with plaid clothes and tie to platforms, cushions, floors … or space, are just convective bits, with flat graphics language. In some details, the artist intentionally makes the cutting effect, Pop as a highlight or metaphor for vision. All of Nguyen The Dung cows are headless, instead of human head. A transformation from real to surreal, from sensible to absurd. The cow-heads – hands, spread out, back out, grabbed its tail, grabbed its hind legs, grabbed hands. To pull, to get throat, resentful or resigned. Called the herb of cows are also called a cow is not wrong or is it one cow in herb of cows? Because they are all the same, stick together, overlapping, horizontal or vertical aligned, gradually increasing, gradually decreasing, gradually fading. The similarity and the absurd shall generate a series of why questions. Why is cow-body or human-hand? Why are cows exactly the same from posture to shape, to color? Why do the cows keep sticking together? Why is human-body or cow-head? Why is quiet so motionless? Different from the mythical creatures derived from Greek mythology (the type of sphinx, birdman …) of divine, sacred color; The cow – human of Nguyen The Dung are a secularize image, metaphorical, implicitly jesting of human life today. A full physical life, comfortable, conduce to a new snobbish man with a low mental life. A life is formed from simple and truths, in the age is called globalization according to Le Anh Hoai writer.