Nguyen Xuan Huy

Indeed, there are also great Vietnamese artists outside there and I would like to present this very one to you guys. His paintings appear to be amazing by the first glance (which they are still at second!). But if you keep watching them for a while you soon will notice a disturbing atmosphere: Mauled bodies and malformed people are her main subjects.

Nguyen Xuan Huy was born in 1976 in Hanoi. He is one of those post-war artists who are still trying hard to overcome the trauma of the Vietnam War (1959 – 1975). Due to the fatal application of Agent Orange by the Americans thousands of Vietnamese people were forced to grow up with these fatal consequences.  This is what she tries to get out of his system and where he receives his inspiration for his paintings from:

If you fancy seeing his art just go and visit the art gallery in Berlin – Wedding.

Lei Xue

Time and time again art is something that will never stop springing a surprise on me:

I really like this one because it nicely combines both tradition with modern art.

Nail salon.

To give you an idea of Vietnamese accent.

Haha, she really takes the biscuit:

Jiang Guo Fang

Another stunning painter: Jiang Guo Fang!

It is some kind of insiders’ tip because my friend once told me about his small exhibition in Berlin.

Yue Minjun

Yue Minjun is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Beijing. He is considered to be one of the leading Chinese avant-gardists and is well known for his oil paintings depicting himself in various settings. One of his trademarks is to show people with a distorting and estranging laughter.

The prodigy

OMFG! Look at this awesome little man – Sungha Jung from South Korea!!!

Honestly I would not call myself a person who regularly keeps watching youtube clips… But if I do, I sometimes stumble over quite interesting videos that really knock me off my little socks!

I cannot even express myself properly… I mean, he is only 13!!! Just to point out: He was 9 when he started playing the guitar:

That’s crazy… You know,c r a z y!!!

But anyway. He really moves me.

Li Wei

I thougt it would be a nice idea posting some interesting stuff from Asian artists, musicians…etc in order to relax the seriousness of my topic. Thereby I want to proof that Asians do have a lot more in stock than just being cats and dogs eating, computer-playing, stiff…camera weirdos lots of people suggest they are.

So take a look at this awesome Chinese photographer, Li Wei:

Nujabes – Lov (fic.) part 2 (feat. shing 02)

“Same same but different.”

After all it seems like this guessing game was a bit tricky, wasn’t it? However I was very pleased to see some people participating! (You know I felt kind of hyped, glad to see that you busied yourself with my topic!)

All of you did a good job trying to match the right nationalities to the pictures! Still there were some difficult ones who were anything but obvious. Don’t mind! It was hard, this I have to admit! So here is the solution:

1st row: Japanese, Chinese, Chinese, Kazakh
2nd row: Japanese, Vietnamese, Vietnamese, Japanese
3rd row: Vietnamese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean

This time I merely wanted to make you think about the “all-look-the-same-thing” using a practical example. I wanted to find out who do you think belongs to which nationality. While studying the different faces what did you focus on? What made you think this guy xyz must be Japanese/Chinese/Korean…whatever?

As ElitedarkLord_3.14159 noticed correctly “it is really difficult to guess where they come from. Even though “they have different characteristic features you can’t be sure by 100% and find their countries.”
But considering your spontaneous choice you must have had at least some kind of “idea” about how e.g. a “typical” Korean looks like, haven’t you?

Of course you can never tell for sure who is of which Asian nationality. In fact I do believe that there delicate differences but maybe this is also in the eye of the beholder…
Since I do not want to disclose my next post I leave you with this point now. I’m gonna go into more detail later on – promised!

By the way for those who are interrested there is a quite cool exhibition in Berlin about the topic I just told you so far: