LE DUC HAI & LE NGOC THANH Painter from Viet Nam Welcome to visit our home page In this site show cases the talents of twins painter from Viet nam.Some of the art work is for sale and some are already in private collection Email gallery

PLEASE MEET THANH & HAI

Twin Brother: LE NGOC THANH & LE DUC HAI
Born: 3rd of April 1975 in Quang Binh - Viet Nam
Education: BFA, Hue College of Art
Address: New Space Art Gallery
28 Nguyen Tri Phuong Street Hue City, Viet Nam
Mobile: (84) 91 349 0120
Fax: (84) 54 849 353

HISTORY

AUGUST 2001
Art Gallery at the YASAKA HOTEL NHA TRANG - VIET NAM
The lacquer paintings exhibition La Baule, France.
JULY 2001
The Lacquer Painting Exhibition: Cologne Germany
The Painting Exhibition Rennes, France.
The Painting Exhibition Saint chammond, France.
FEBRUARY 2001
Lacquer Painting Exhibition Ana Mandara Resort Nha Trang Viet Nam.
OCTOBER 2000
Lacquer Painting Exhibition News Space Art Gallery Hue Viet Nam
SEPTEMBER 2000
National Painting Exhibition Ha Noi Viet Nam
MAY 2000
Painting Exhibition Tokyo Japan
MARCH 2000
French - Vietnamese Dragon & Painting Festival Hue - Viet Nam
MAY 1999
Working Painting Exhibition Hue - Viet Nam
MARCH 1999
Exhibition at Gallery LAtelie, Ha Noi - Viet Nam
SEPTEMBER 1998
Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art , Chaing Mai, Thailand
NOVEMBER 1998
The Painting Exhibition United Emirates
AUGUST 1998
Exhibition at the Faculty of fine Art Chiang Mai, Thailand.
MARCH 1998
Exhibition in United Emirates
Exhibition In Saigon- Viet Nam
JANUARY 1998
The Painting Exhibition Khemer Art, Bangkok, Thailand
DECEMBER 1997
Installation Exhibition Hue - Viet Nam
MARCH 1997
Twin Painting Exhibition Hue - Viet Nam
SEPTEMBER 1996
Painting Exhibition Hue - Viet Nam
SEPTEMBER 1995
The Painting Exhibition Hue - Viet Nam
OCTOBER 1994
The Painting Exhibition Hue - Viet Nam

BRIEF HISTORY OF LACQUER PAINTING

Vietnamese lacquer art started and developed for a long time. From the beginning people used lacquer for ancient architecture projects such as pagodas, mausoleums, imperial palaces, temples. And people used it to decorate their furniture.

Vietnamese lacquer came from the North. This is the place granted for the art the plant producing paint used in the lacquer art because of its convenience of the weather. The manufacturing process from the rude paint to the paint using the lacquer art now was a long time and depended on the skill of the artist. The materials that the ancients used in lacquer composing Then paint, cockroach-wing color paint, red color taken from red soil Bazan, gold, silver (to make it thinner and paste into the choosing places).

The 1st artist brought lacquer material from handicraft arts into art painting is the late artist Nguyen Gia Tri.

And after his generation, Vietnamese artist has been searching for new ways to develop the lacquer art to be a real art as the other art paintings in the world.

We are artists who are studying and searching for the lacquer art material and we also try to find the new technique for our painting.

Our lacquer painting has been made with the following process:

Firstly, we chooses wooden boards with suitable size for the painting lay-out, we cover them with paint for the first layer and when they become dry, the board will be covered with a silk clothe to prevent the affection of the weather. After that they will be covered by 10 layers of paint and clay. After one layer, they will be sharpened to become flat. This process will last 3 months. After that boards will be covered with 3 layers of lacquer and it takes a month to complete this process. The boards now are called VOC
We use VOC to create our works. The time for this process depends on the artists, as there will many painting technical will be presented. We carry in our works many new technical such as heaping up, presenting the lacquer color same as the water color as well as the other technique such as eggshells, stones, ancient papers etc

CONTACT US LE NGOC THANH_LE DUC HAI Address: New Space Art Gallery I 28 Nguyen Tri Phuong Street Hue City, Viet Nam Address: New Space Art Gallery II 28 Pham Ngu Lao Street Hue City, Viet Nam Mobile: (84) 91 349 0120 Fax: (84) 54 849 353 Email us at :thanhhaiart@dng.vnn.vn