Installation view of exhibition "UOB Painting of the Year", UOB Bank, 2023.
Installation view of exhibition "UOB Painting of the Year", UOB Bank, 2023.
Artwork details of exhibition "UOB Painting of the Year", UOB Bank, 2023.
Artwork details of exhibition "UOB Painting of the Year", UOB Bank, 2023.
Lacquer.
Description
The artwork conveys the reflective emotions that have permeated Trần Quốc Long's artistic journey. Along this journey, moments of euphoria pass by quickly, while the hardships and solitude persist throughout the long road. At times, the precarious artist had to deliberate his artistic path: to create "pretty", pleasing, and market-friendly paintings or to continue confronting difficulties in pursuit of his ideals to the very end. However, after all, the artist realized that he did not have to choose because pure artistic creativity had long become his way of life and the very essence of his being.
Description from "UOB Painting of the Year" Exhibition, 2023.
