Opaque Signs

A Fundraising Show by Sàn Art Opening: 17.12.2019 @6:00pm Duration: 17.12.2019 — 22.01.2020 Location: Sàn Art Millennium Masteri Unit B6.17 & B6.16 132 Bến Vân Đồn, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (enter from Nguyen Huu Hao side)   Read more on the artworks here “Opaque Signs” is a celebration of works graciously donated by Sàn Art’s artist-friends on the occasion of the organization’s twelfth year running. Though diverse in terms of forms, concepts and references, these gifts share a material element of luminosity. As store signs...

LabMobile with artist Phan Thao Nguyen

Time: Tuesday 23rd May, 2017,14:00 – 19:00 Location: The Factory, 15 Nguyễn Ư Dĩ, District 2, HCMC   This edition of LabMobile travels to artist Phan Thao Nguyen’s exhibition “Poetic Amnesia” at the Factory. Participants are invited to walk through the exhibition’s different routes of forgetting, history and imagination. We start the journey by viewing the video work Tropical Siesta before moving on to explore the pages of ‘Voyage de Rhodes No.1 – 84’ and revisit the the love-war story of Trọng Thuỷ and Mỵ Nương in Your daughter is...

Sàn Art Online Auction 4-18 December 2014 on paddle8.com

Opening: 04.12.2014 @7:00 AM Exhibition on view until 08.12.2014 Location: paddle8.com paddle8.com/auction/sanart VIEW AUCTION AND PLACE YOUR BID HERE! ‘Thresholds of Motion’, an ‘exhibition-as-online auction’ with paddle8.com is a Sàn Art fundraising initiative. The success of this auction is crucial to the future sustainability of Sàn Art in Vietnam – a not-for-profit, independent contemporary art organisation whose activities are in serious financial jeopardy. We need your support! ‘Thresholds of Motion’ presents a unique collection of contemporary art composed of photography, printmaking, drawing, oil and silk painting, ceramic, assemblage and sculpture...

Autumn Galleria

Opening: 07.08.2014 Exhibition on view until 30.10.2014 Location: Sàn Art 3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh District   Take a walk down a lane of history and visit the fictional school of Alexandre d’Rhodes, the French Jesuit missionary who created today’s written script in Vietnam. See the students whose eyesight is tested with blindfold and the art of play. This is Phan Thao Nguyen’s world of creating history through fragments with a mastery of both fact and fiction in careful gestures of oil on photographic film. Similarly adept in the art...

Right fiction?

This will be an artist talk as performative interview. It will involve Phan Thao Nguyen and Ngoc Nau interrogating each other regarding subjects, materials, process and methodologies concerning each of their artwork production over the last 6 months as residents of ‘San Art Laboratory’. They will give you a window onto their trials and experiments with materials such as jute, charcoal, neon, bronze, oil on x-ray film and light, sharing not only the in-depth research they carried out of these materials, but also their analysis of the history and meaning...