(VOVworld) – A contemporary Japanese art exhibition called “Winter garden” is open in Hanoi. The exhibition conveys a message that people can find inspiration in any circumstance if they know how to value their lives.

Ryoko Aoki fiction house (parts), 2009 (Photo: Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam)

In Hanoi’s muggy summer heat, the “Winter garden” exhibition opens a space to explore the uniqueness of Japanese contemporary art. Being displayed are 35 paintings, drawings and videos, created by 14 young artists, who are members of Micropop Contemporary Japanese Art group. They have introduced their distinctive view of the world through the combination of daily life images, old video footage and color blocs, referred to by critic Midori Matsui as “Micropop.”

Yoshida, Deputy Director of the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, told VOV:“This is a special art school of Japan, which is not influenced by any school in the world. Young artists creatively incorporate fragments of past memories with daily life details in their completely new style called Micropop”.

 

Lyota Yagi Vinyl, 2005 – 2008 (Photo: Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam)

Female artist Ryokoaoki elicits viewers’ emotions with her work depicting a beautiful dream: a rural garden with girls and puppies playing together. Lyotayaghi’s work called “Vinyl” amazes the audience with her innovations of ordinary items: the silicone vinyl player, water, recorder and fridge. The vinyl player produces sweet and gentle sounds. Video works by Koki Tanaka capture in details daily activities, and natural phenomena: fanning, pouring out water, rain and winds.

The exhibition attracts young people, including Nguyen Thi Minh Anh, a student in Hanoi. Anh said: “I am excited to see this Japanese art exhibition. It’s very animated and helps me better understand Japanese culture, which is more popular in Vietnam. This also helps strengthen Vietnam-Japan ties”.

In the exhibition space, viewers are absorbed by unique, strange frames with soft and subtle colors. Each painting implies messages such as environmental protection, glacier melting, water level rising or life fragments. Ishizaki Shinichi, a Japanese tourist, said he is lucky to enjoy works by his compatriots in Hanoi: “The coldness of Japanese winter is warmed up by Vietnam’s sun light. It’s meaningful to watch not only Vietnamese art but also paintings of my home country in Hanoi”.

The Japanese contemporary art exhibition “Winter Garden” will close on June 23 in Hanoi and open  in  July in Ho Chi Minh City.