
Galerie Dumonteil is pleased to present Traces, the solo exhibition of Vietnamese artist Le Trieu Dien (b.1943), featuring a selection of 12 works from his practices during the last two decades.
Like artists who express stories about love, hardship and past glories, Le Trieu Dien recalls his most precious memory through paintings depicting life in the Mekong Delta. His narrative is characterised by simplistic shapes and forms, utilising arrows, triangles, circles and squares in many of his works. Some of these shapes are direct representations of real objects; triangles, for example, represent the roofs of traditional Vietnamese houses. Nevertheless, the true intention of Le Trieu Dien, who searches for his own honest expression, is to surpass mere representation in realism and strive for an abstraction of direct emotions.
Traces is not only a personal narrative of the past but also a strand of emotions that resonate our own experiences and memories. Interwoven by vibrant colours and dynamic rhythms, Le’s paintings are enchanting stories that inspire universal spiritual experiences within us. Through his paintings, we perceive the flowing of time; we see the past, present and future.
Le Trieu Dien, with over four decades of experience as an artist, recalls the ups and downs of his life through paintings depicting life in the Mekong Delta. The imageries not only appear as Le’s personal narrative of the past, but also serve as a strand of emotions, a force of energy enabling people to achieve direct and intuitive spirituality. The paintings of Le Trieu Dien are enchanting stories, passed from one generation to the next, that inspire universal spiritual experiences within us. Through his paintings, we perceive the flowing of time; we see the past, present and future.


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