Artist Nguyen Duc Niem paints works

Talking about his journey to painting, Niem said that his parents were farmers, and no one in his family was into art. He started to come to painting through drawings since he was young and after meeting and interacting with art and architecture students...

Graduated from Hue University of Arts in 2022 with a major in painting, Nguyen Duc Niem has had more opportunities to express his talent and love for art. The materials in Niem's ​​paintings are mainly silk and mixed media. The works of this young man are experimental. Niem is focusing on researching the identity and meaning of materials that can be used in painting.

As a young artist, Nguyen Duc Niem's ​​interests revolve around historical relics and familiar scenes in everyday life, thereby integrating, conveying, and expressing meaningful humanistic concepts into his works. Serious and careful in choosing themes, color combinations, and structures, each of Niem's ​​works reflects an aspect of life, evoking deep associations and contemplation. The paintings named Yen; Memoir 02... leave a beautiful impression on viewers. According to Niem, to create a unique work, the most difficult step is selecting ideas. This process starts from generalizing ideas, expressing them in sentences, then moving to visual language, expressed through lines, shapes, and colors. These three stages are always closely connected.

Constantly learning and creating, this young man has always actively participated in artistic activities and exhibitions in and outside the city, and has achieved the title of 5 Good Students of Hue University. Up to now, painter Nguyen Duc Niem has participated in 20 exhibitions, including a number of large exhibitions such as: National Youth Fine Arts Festival Exhibition 2024; North Central Fine Arts Exhibition 2021...

With his artistic qualities combined with his passion for exploration, learning, and research, the young man from Hue, Nguyen Duc Niem, has gradually affirmed himself on his journey to painting with valuable awards: Encouragement Prize at the Hue University of Arts Student Exhibition 2021, Hue Youth Exhibition 2022; 2 Third Prizes at the Sketching Competition organized by the Faculty of Architecture, Hue University of Sciences and the COVID-19 Poster Design Competition 2020; Award from the Hue Fine Arts Association in the New Face Exhibition 2022. Notably, with the work Diary 2024, Nguyen Duc Niem won the Silver Prize in the Promising Artist category of the UOB Painting of the Year 2024 competition.

UOB Painting of the Year is one of the most prestigious art awards in the ASEAN region, first held in 1982 and has discovered and nurtured more than 1,000 artistic talents. In Vietnam, the competition was first held in 2023. Diary 2024 - the winning work of Niem was highly appreciated by the Jury, because the creator was inspired by the diary pages, the hidden emotions in the artist's notebook. The blue layer covering the envelope symbolizes the confusion or secret things that are being blurred or painted over. On the envelope, the words "From: Niem 25 To: Niem 24" are like a message to himself from a year ago, evoking nostalgia for past moments. The characters of letters and numbers are made according to their own rules, as the artist himself wants his thoughts to be written down but not necessarily understood.

Nguyen Duc Niem is currently studying and working at “Comptoir Du Temps”. This is a service of restoration, consulting on preservation, storage and forensic appraisal of multi-material works of art… to continue to unleash his creativity on the path of pursuing the passion that is full of difficulties, challenges but also extremely interesting and attractive that the young man has chosen.

Article and photos: Tran Van Toan

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