A group exhibition featuring Pham Dinh Tien, Nguyen Tran Nam and Rudy ‘Atjeh’ D
Opening: 06.11.2014 @6:30pm
Exhibition on view until 30.01.2015
Location: Sàn Art
3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh
Ho Chi Minh City
Sàn Art is pleased to present ‘Come to [what] end?’ – a group exhibition featuring installation, sculpture, video and paper-cut work by artists Pham Dinh Tien, Nguyen Tran Nam and Rudy ‘Atjeh’ D, concluding their time with ‘Sàn Art Laboratory: Session Five’.
Curiosity is an innate part of human nature. Children often ponder in fascination...
These three gentlemen have been on residency with ‘San Art Laboratory’ over the last 6 months, resulting in their group exhibition ‘Come to [what] end?’ – Nam has re-cast the French guillotine as a personal symbol questioning death as punishment, as sacrifice, as an act eventually memorialized but for whom? ; for Tien our fate often appears random and beyond our control, a contemplation triggered by the disappearance of Malaysian Airline 370; for Rudy his paper-cutting genius illustrates the encounter of culture and religion, between the Cham Kingdom and the...
An ‘Open Studio’ is an invitation to see the inside of a working artist’s studio. It is an opportunity to learn more about the process of an artist’s thinking, to see a ‘work of art’ in progress. It’s also a chance to meet the local art community, to get a sense of what kind of contemporary art you like or, don’t like!Visit Rudy Atjeh, a wizard with cutter knife with his myriad of sculptures from paper. Talk to Nguyen Tran Nam about the design of punishment, and ongoing experiment beginning...
Rudy was born in Langsa 1982, Nangroe Aceh Darussalam. He graduated from Fine Arts Department, Indonesian Institute of The Arts, Yogyakarta (2009). Personal narration and daily problems had been a frequent theme in his creative process, especially in regards to the matter of identity. He formed a heavy metal band SANGKAKALA, and collaborated in experimental art & music performance project, PUNKASILA. His closeness to the youth culture and the background of his motherland with the Muslim Sharia Law and its political conflict remained a ‘daily life’, simply be one of...
