Bui Ngoc Tu

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Bui Ngoc Tu is born in 1936 in the small village of Nam Dinh in the North.

He has graduated from the famous Hanoi Fine Arts School in 1969. He made a lot of paintings’ exhibitions in Vietnam and in Russia, in India, in Poland, in Sweden, in Switzerland and in 1997 & 1998 in the H&S Art Gallery in Brussels.Bui Ngoc Tu

This artist is well known for his paintings describing the traditional life of country people. His works on paper are marked by a particular humour which gives his characters a touch of naivety and tenderness making them moving and poetic.

However, since a few years, Bui Ngoc Tu is trying to paint his personal view of the primitive and complex man-woman relationship. Woman is always at her advantage, in full possession of her female attributes, except for the head when she is desired and aware of this feeling. On the contrary, Man is unfortunately reduced to a draft, if not a child or a clown because he is put down by this vision of a Woman with infinite resources. Little by little, Bui Ngoc Tu’s work is changing and the man appeared more sexual and is starting to openly desire this “obscure object of desire” as filmed by Buñuel in 1977.

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Bui Ngoc Tu is painting large works painted with large strokes. Nowadays he is suggesting more than he is painting. He is willing to stylise at the best a language he would like universal and to represent the inexpressible anxiety of Man in front of a Woman. Everybody sees itself in his work. This period of symbolism creation was particularly rich and it has progressively been replaced by a return to traditions.

Bui Ngoc Tu has a special place in the Vietnamese contemporary painting. He is working all the time and is out of the turmoil created by new collectors & art dealers coming from everywhere. Very modest but extremely rich inside, his work will impress more and more art lovers from all over the world. Bui Ngoc Tu is one of the very few true giant in Vietnam

In recent years, he seems to have returned to the works dedicated to village scenes and he devotes considerable time to produce works painted in large format. His references to folklore and country traditions make out of him an attaching painter much appreciated by Vietnamese collectors.

Career of Bui Ngoc TU

1936              Born in Nam Dinh, North of Vietnam

1969    Graduated from Hanoi Fine Arts College, Hanoi
1957-1992    Various solo and group exhibitions in Vietnam
1992            Group exhibition in France (Neuilly Plaisance)
1994    Group exhibition in Sweden (Nordiska Museum) and in Vietnam (Fine Art Association of HCMC)
1997             With H&S Art Gallery, exhibitions "Man and Woman" in HCMC in September 1997, in Paris ( Espace Kiron)

1998             With H&S Art Gallery in Brussels (H&S Art Gallery)
                     Solo exhibitions in the H&S Gallery (Bruxelles) en 1998 et 1999.
2000 – 2005 Exhibitions in Singapore (Alliance Française), in France (Salon d'Automne Internationale de Luneville) and in Malaysia ( Kuala    Lumpur)
2006 Exhibitions in France , in Singapore (Alliance française), in France (Galerie Anh Tuyet, Toulouse) and in Switzerland
2007              Exhibitions in France, in USA at Dragonfly Design Decor (Washington DC), at Towson university (Maryland) and at Gallery Brigitte (Virginia)
2008        Exhibitions in France (Salon d’Automne Internationale de Luneville) and in Singapore (Alliance française)
2010              Solo exhibition in HCMC, Vietnam « Rural feature »
2010             Exhibition at Exchange Square in Hong Kong.
2011 Exhibition in Florence - Italy.
2012             Exhibition at Alliance Francaise in Singapore
2012             Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
2012             Exhibition in Florence, Venice - Italy.

Gallery of Bui Ngoc TU
BNT179, 1996, 99x90cm
BNT, 1998, 120x120 cm
BNT129, 78x110cm
BNT53, 130x110cm
BNT01, 2005, 83x120cm
BNT03, 2005, 75x105cm
BNT17, 2001, 42x70cm
BNT19, 1994, 41x60cm
BNT20, 1993, 40x60cm
BNT21, 2001, 35x40cm
BNT22, 2001, 34x40cm
BNT23, 2001, 40x55cm
BNT24, 2001, 41x60cm
BNT25, 2001, 52x76cm
BNT40, 2001, 59x87cm
BNT56, 1960, 50x40cm
BNT58, 1980, 50x43cm
BNT57, NhaTrang,1985,40x53cm
BNT189, 41x35cm
BNT188, 35x41cm
BNT187, 41x35cm
BNT130, 2001, 70x110cm
BNT76, 135x109cm
BNT74, 110x135cm
BNT73, 112x136cm
BNT72, 112x136cm
BNT66, Hesitations, 67x90cm
BNT65, 2001, 67x90cm
BNT64, 2001, 87x90cm
BNT63, 2001, 87x90cm
BNT62, 2001, 68x90cm
BNT61, 2001, 69x90cm
BNT50, 2001, 80x107cm
BNT16, 2001, 52x76cm
BNT136, 2005, 65x90cm
BNT179, 1996, 99x90cm
BNT01, 2005, 83x120cm
BNT, 60x60cm
BNT199, 47x40cm
BNT190, 57x44cm
BNT134, 2005, 112x128cm
BNT131, 2001, 60x88cm
BNT89, 2001, 80x80cm
BNT186, 2002, 41x46cm
BNT200, 49x50cm
BNT201, 50x64cm
BNT133, 88x60cm
BNT129, 78x110cm
BNT202, 100x78cm
BNT203, 100x78cm
BNT204, 54x38cm
BNT205, 107x68cm
BNT135, 92x102cm
BNT206, 114x135cm
BNT125, 2001, 67x98cm
BNT207, 88x60cm
BNT132, 113x69cm
BNT128, 70x110cm
BNT126, 2001, 80x110cm
BNT124, 2001, 67x98cm
BNT196, 112x136cm
BNT209, 50x40cm
BNT210, 112x135cm
BNT216, 60x30cm
BNT, 120x120 cm