‘Ego-Humankind’ Exhibition opens up strange perspective for Hanoi urban area
The ‘Ego-Humankind’ Exhibition, dedicated to artist Ngo Xuan Binh (born in 1957), displays over 200 lacquer and oil paintings, accompanied by more than 100 sculptures made of bronze, stone, and wood. The exhibition is one of the events of the Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2022. Artist Ngo Xuan Binh. Photo: Trang Trang The largest work on display is a wooden sculpture weighing over 4.5 tons. A combination of traditional and contemporary art forms, the event started on November 18, 2022, and is expected to last until March 2023 at the Hanoi Museum. The message of the ‘new-era city’: towards beauty The exhibition aims to vividly convey a message: The Vietnamese city in the new era is the city of beauty sought by the community. Nguyen Tien Da, Director of the Hanoi Museum, said that the exhibition is designed with multiple dimensions: living space, green space, service space, socializing space, and labor organizing space. This is not merely a display of artworks bu...