(Cultural Centre - Alliance Francaise: Programme of Activities April 1995)

An announcement on the conference (10 April 1995) and roundtable discussion (12 April 1995) organised by Salon Natasha at Alliance Française in Hanoi, the two events arranged on the occasion of the group exhibition 'Music'.
The main speaker at the conference was Eric Leroux, who gave an introduction to the conceptual basis of the exhibition, as well as a brief retrospective survey of the relationship of art to music in the studies of visual arts. His survey stretched through decades, encompassed works produced by Kandinsky to contemporary arts. The presentation also included a slide show with music audio recording. The audience at the conference consisted of artists and French-speaking Hanoian.
The roundtable was moderated by Natasha Kraevskaia and Eric Leroux. It invited participants from various fields, including composers, musicians, artists, art historians, sociologists, historians, and writers. Among the keynote speakers were composer Duong Thu, historian Dao Hung and poet/art critic Duong Tuong. The roundtable aimed to present the discourse on the subject music and painting, as well as to explore different methodologies employed by the participants on the particular topic.

The group exhibition ‘Music’ was organised to encourage artists to explore the relationship between art and music, and hence to express visually their euphoric perceptions. Such interrelation had been established in the West in the late 19th Century, where artists experimented with the spiritual connection of art and music. Vietnamese artists, on the contrary, were rather negligent to such correlation even by the late 20th Century, when ‘Music’ was presented. Vu Dan Tan, among all the participating artists, was the one who had been constantly going back to explore the connections between colours, sounds, music, and visual arts, out of his personal interest in classical music.
With such specific artistic concern, ‘Music’ could be seen in relations to the painting performance at ‘Le Trio d’Argent’ concert, which was initiated by Salon Natasha in the following year 1995.
Participating artists of the exhibition include: Do Minh Tam, Le Hong Thai, Le Tuan Anh, Eric Leroux, Geoff Dorn, Bui Viet Dung, Maritta Nurmi, Alain Bailly, Mai Chi Thanh, Tran Thieu Quang, Truong Tan, Lana Sundberg and Vu Dan Tan.

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1995

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