Canadian visual artist John Monteith, born 1973, is currently based between Berlin, New York and Toronto. John Monteith’s work has been exhibited the Tate Modern, London, X Initiative, New York, The New York Art Book Fair at PS 1, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, and Galerie Wenger, Zurich, among other venues. His paintings and photographs are featured in a number of important collections internationally....
Opening: 26.07.2013 @6pm
Exhibition on view until 05.09.2013
Location: Sàn Art
3 Me Linh Street,
District Binh Thanh
Ho Chi Minh City
‘Every twig leaves a story in break- ing
Each man only a handful of dirt’
Taken from the short poem BT Shaw wrote in response to visual artist Nguyen Trinh Thi’s work ‘Song to the front’, these lines could be read as a prelude to ‘Echoing Nostalgia. Collecting Countermemory’.
‘Nostalgia’ is an official scientific term of psychological studies, referring to the prevailing psychological condition of humanity and...
Artist – filmmaker Nguyễn Trinh Thi discusses the similarities and differences between written text and visual art (video art, film, photography) in the re-reading of the past and her experimentation with chronicled and historical material to form new creative artworks.
Artist John Monteith and poet BT Shaw also share their working experiences in relation to the works exhibited in ‘Echoing Nostalgia’....
