Nguyen Trong Minh (1982)

When the young generations of a society are educated: “the discipline is the core”, when the perfection and standard are considered and highly appreciated, when the identical appearance is critical, when the extraordinary is preached, then incidentally we repeat and create a terrible pressure obsessively. The art works of Nguyen Trong Minh is a reflection and parody of the society like that. Throughout the paintings, the art style of Nguyen Trong Minh directly represents problems of society with a very strong spirit and criticism attitude linked to the education issue. When nowadays, students are likely to be “the automatic machines” which are “comprehensively” educated. And Nguyen Trong Minh is one of the few artists who use the human clone of Pop Art to criticize the reality.

The same people as the industrial products on the supermarket’s shelves make a strong obsession to anyone’s mind. The context of each painting is always put in an indefinite, upset and symbolic, as well as it has a surreal feeling. The artist said: “I feel that life is so complicated, everything is crowded as well as vague. I need the quietness”.

His paintings have two main colors are black and white. These are the color tones that people often use when they want to refer to the dark, the devil, the mischief in contrast to the transparency, the righteousness and the true. And the special thing is that with these two-color paintings, we will see a memory of our past as well as our friends’ – it is the school time. Therefore are the fun, the memories of students just needed seperating into Right and Wrong? Perhaps, therefore, the art works of Nguyen Trong Minh are always really update and have made us thinkable.