Development, Influence, Artistic Style
Nguyen Trung has the great ability to create well-organized texture in his works, paired with a balance and steadiness in his ideas. Strong, decisive individuality and a high sense of purpose are the determinant factors making up Nguyen Trung`s art. Over the last decade, Trung has initiated a new current in Vietnamese Art. It is abstract art, based upon strict European rationalism, placed within an Oriental philosophical space.
Nguyen Trung is also one of the outstanding representatives of painting of Saigon (HoChiMinh City) both before 1975 and at the present. Co-Organizer of the Saigon Association of Young Painters in the 70`s. Gradually his early abstract-style painting took on the clear figures of realism, but his recent return to abstraction has been marked by a refined technique in terms of light and material- He specializes in oil paintings.
He is one of the few living Vietnamese artists whose works are regularly sold at international auctions. HIs works are in collections, such as the prestigious collection of the Vietnamese Fine Art Museum, the Singapore Art Museum and the Bassano del Grappa Fine Arts Museum in Italy.