NGUYEN QUOC HUNG

Painting is difficult but it is even more complicated to describe what painting is.

The inspirations usually come up from my empty mind, when no ideas are built up. Just pick up the brush and all the drawing lines will be gradually made, as well as the images and arrangement. It seems like there’s an undefined ecouragement inside that pushes me to paint without thinking. A psychic after viewing my paintings said that I paint in unconscious. The unconscious is my guide, it controls me, kind of. I’m not so sure.

Why is painting difficult ? Because painting is to create something new. But can we really create new things while everything has already been shaped ? And in every corners of art, there are always giant shadows blocking the way of “creativity”. So why don’t we  just paint whatever we like, then things will be shaped themselves ?

In my opinion, painting is just a kind of combinations between real and unreal things (because the unreal things are so far to achieve and the real things are just too familiar), between fullness and emptiness, logicality and illogicality, heaven and hell, instinct and mind. And so on. Oh I’ve just mentioned the mind, does it play any roles in creating my new paintings ? Yes, but it floats in the middle of the process. The beginning and the finale of a painting are officially formed by the unconscious.

These are, of course, only my own thoughts!

 Nguyen Quoc Hung, Vietnam

http://www.artbreak.com/hungnguyen