This exhibition had its wellspring from the building of his countryside studio. As Thanh began to work with the land the inspiration to use this earth mixed with stone naturally occurred.

Art must have content, yet the content is not always pictorial. The ideal of color, of visual form, of composition, must be expressed in art through non-pictorial means. Only then does the artist begin to observe the particular, the psychological object, and discover its meaning, its implications, its unformed shape. All of these things must be expressed psychologically, as a kind of personal memory.

The light of the spirit, that elusive, enlightened force that guides our lives and our actions, softly penetrates and propels the brush of two serious young scholarly painters – Le Quoc Viet and Tran Hoang Son.

Hanoi … a city of nights of magic … cyclos dreamily encircling Hoan Kiem Lake, gas lights flickering, glowing in the darkness, the stillness of the night softened by gently falling rain. A city of romance, love and sadness, steeped in rich tradition.