Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (Tokyo, 1968) is a Japanese-Vietnamese artist.[1][2]

He was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a Vietnamese father in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive staged by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops.[3] He earned an M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1994 after receiving his B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992.

He has had solo exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria, Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and a retrospective of his work was shown at the Manchester Art Gallery in England. His work has been included in numerous biennials, including the Shanghai Biennale, the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, and the São Paulo Biennale. He currently lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Nguyen-Hatsushiba's films explore Vietnamese history and national identity, and have referenced issues such as the displacement of Vietnamese "boat people" after the Vietnam War. Alienation is Hatsushiba's principal theme.[4] Happy New Year features a processional dragon, coiling around the reef like a sea-serpent while capsules of coloured dye explode to form underwater fireworks. The installation Garden of Globes is representative of a lunar landscape of silver orbs floats beneath a suspended canopy of rickshaws, old engine parts and other flotsam of Vietnamese urban life.[5] Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s video work, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, was filmed in 2001 on the southeast coast of Vietnam. This was the artist’s first video work and offers captivating images of local fishermen pulling cyclos (rickshaws) underwater toward an area where the artist stretched about thirty mosquito nets across the sea bed. The cyclos, submerged in deep water, represent the weight of tradition and reference Vietnam’s historical past in the context of the country’s struggle with the processes of modernization.[6]Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam also marked the beginning of Nguygen-Hatsushiba’s ongoing project Breathing is Free 12,756.3. The project is the culmination of a body of work on the global refugee crisis. As Nguyen-Hatsushiba travels around the globe he will run through the cities and environments, working towards covering a distance equivalent to the earth’s diameter (12,756.3 kilometers). To date Nguyen-Hatsushiba ran in Chicago, Taipei, Manchester, Singapore, Luang Prabang, Taichung, Karlsruhe, Ho Chi Minh City, Oami, Lucerne, and Geneva. A series of virtual earth drawings, illustrating the movement of populations around the world, serves as an exhibition counterpart along with installation pieces. Arizona State University Art Museum hosted to US premier of the exhibition. It has since travelled to Rymer Gallery, School of Art Institute of Chicago. Breathing is Free 12,756.3 is co-organized by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
  2. ↑ http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/bunka/news/pdf/230311.pdf 2011年3月11日 ... ジュン・グエン＝ハツシバ／Jun NGUYEN-HATSUSHIBA. 1968年、東京都生まれ。 ホーチミン在住。 ジュン・グエン=ハツシバは、日本人の母と、ベトナム人の父との間に 生まれた。幼少. 時代を日本で過ごし、その後アメリカで美術教育を ."
  3. ↑ Kamiya, Yukie, "Body as a carrier of memory and message: Parallels to some Japanese post-war art", Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Kunstmuseum Luzern. 2007. pg. 40
  4. ↑ Panicelli, Ida, "Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba at MACRO", Artforum, April 2004
  5. ↑ Hickling, Alfred, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba at Manchester Art Gallery, The Guardian, Monday 25 February 2008
  6. ↑ Tezuka, Miwako, Vietnam: A Memorial Work by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Asia Society, 2008
  7. ↑ http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/2009/breathingisfree/index.php


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