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Fake It Like You Mean It: Art Fraud From Vietnam to Germany
Slated to be a grand exhibition to bolster the Vietnamese contemporary art scene, the Paintings Returned from Europe exhibition at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum has crashed and burned in a fire of forgery. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but this poor collector just got his treasure turned to trash. This episode is most definitely embarrassing for the Vietnamese art community, which is highly talented and working hard to establish itself. And while frauds are always fascinating, this slapstick, ragtag, haphazard job is so bad it’s fabulous. The July exhibition was a private collection from Vũ Xuân Chung and supposedly held works from contemporary artists…
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Bone Chiller: “Between Two Mysteries” exhibition from the inside out
Sticks and stones break bones, but impressions and perceptions can surely work you over like a prisoner dropping the soap. What is reality but a messed up puzzle of colour and form that we imbue with our own individual meaning? Our world is the combination of mental and physical, and with each person infinitely different, there are endless possibilities for reality. The current exhibition, Between Two Mysteries, at Galerie Quynh in Saigon, leaps headfirst into the idea of our perceptions of the world and juxtaposes two seemingly disparate collections, Ink Kingdom by Truc-Anh and Lightning in U Minh Forest by Hoang Duong Cam, to slap the viewer in the face…






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