Dirty Hands, Bui Cong Khanh

This Saturday, Atelier Wonderful is hosting a proposal from visual artist Bui Cong Khanh. His work, presented many times in Vietnam and abroad (Busan Bienniale in Korea, Asiatopia in Thailand, NIPAF in Japan, Vermont Studio in the US...) takes simultaneously two main directions.

The first direction shows the artist's deep anxiety about a world being dominated by profit. Via performance and obvious symbols of capitalism using (bills, Coca Cola), he communicates his message in a extremely direct way.

The second direction Bui Cong Khanh follows is more classic - drawing or painting on canvas. It's another approach, more spontaneous, in which the artist grants himself the freedom to express his actual feelings and emotions, immediately and without hesitation. In this manner he strives for the merging the concerns of the first as he undertakes to draw on the wall itself, with charcoal, thus maintaining the possibility of a non commercial art – as fleeting as a performance itself.

From 10am to 6pm : Dirty Hands, wall drawing realized at Atelier Wonderful

At 2pm : Bui Cong Khanh will present and comment the performances he did these last years in Cambodia, Thailand and Japan.

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Created by Wonderful District, Atelier Wonderful is a new place dedicated to contemporary creation in Ho Chi Minh city. It opens its doors every saturday for students, creators and art lovers who want to meet, share ideas and get information. Atelier Wonderful is neither a gallery nor an art center, it gathers different aspects in the compact space of a small artist studio :

-a small lounge, offering a display of documentation that can be consulted on place (art books, magazines, DVDs, digital data bank about artists),

-a workshop, which will accomodate regular presentation of artists' works or cultural actors' talks.

atelier wonderful - 80 Nguyen Trai -1st floor - w.Ben Thanh -dist.1 - HCM City - http://www.wonderfuldistrict.org