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PET CREATIVES

PAINTINGS BY NGUYỄN TRUNG NGHĨA

Trung Nghia was born in 1981 at Phuoc An Village, Krongpac
District, Daklak Province, in the multiethnic Western Highlands of
Central Vietnam, in a family of devoted and virtuous Protestants.
Trung Nghia left his hometown to study in Sai Gon and graduated
from the University of Architecture of Ho Chi Minh City with a
Bachelor Degree in Interior Design. Nghia has participated in the
artistic scene as a professional painter since 2011.
“Since childhood, I was living in the mountainous and forestry
regions. I have loved and have been grateful to, and experienced
all the beautiful things ever present when people were living at
peace and in communion with nature and the animals. In the state
of mind of a person aspiring to the harmony of all living things,
I have witnessed and felt sad at the phenomenon of increasing
destruction, disaster, and death of many species caused by those
who brazenly transform the wonders of fire, of light into a means
of annihilation. This has taken place silently, secretly in the region
of my livelihood, without any possibility of prevention and control;
and it is expanding every day. I could not do anything to help.
There come, an idea crossed in my mind – to record and trace the
call of the wilderness and its inhabitant by means of the materials
of fire, smokes, and sulfur to recuperate the power and values of
fire, and used it to mark down the vanishing beauty of the natural
environment, in the way of a witnessing historian with a brush,”
confided Trung Nghia.
TRUNG NGHIA

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