Mixed media on canvas.

Description

“I paint with the vigor and cleverness of a laborer, but also with the pleasure and passion of a little boy who dips his hands into the sand on the beach to build his own palace. I, too, have an extremely deep longing for dipping my hands in the material I use to paint: trowel and brush are not enough for me.”*

“Creativity is a grandiose mission: it is grandiose for success is never within reach. Some see artmaking as a job, others as karma. For me, it is bad karma!...”**

* Nguyen Trung, excerpt from CUC Gallery. https://www.cucgallery.vn/nguyen-trung
** Nguyen Trung, interview with Lê Thiên Bảo (2019). https://tapchimythuat.vn/tin-my-thuat/nguyen-trung-sau-thap-ky-loay-hoay-tu-coi-troi/

Description from White Noise Exhibition Brochure, 2023, p. 11.