Nguyen Trung – Boi Tran Garden

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From Lacquer to Light: A French Collector’s Journey Begins with Boi Tran

French collector Melchior Dejouany once called discovering pictorial lacquer “one of the most beautiful revelations” of his life. That revelation began with a painting by Boi Tran, luminous, quiet, and unforgettable, seen at Christie’s Hong Kong in 2012. In her layered technique, he found something deeper: feeling, stillness, soul. Her work opened not just a door into Vietnamese art, but into a story, one that continues across generations, bound by vision, tenderness, and the quiet power of beauty that travels and connects across oceans.

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Christie’s Paris | The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread: Important Vietnamese Artworks from the Melchior Dejouany Collection

The Melchior Dejouany Collection showcases the brilliance of Vietnamese masters: Nguyen Gia Tri’s layered lacquer dreams, Le Pho’s elegant silks, and Vu Cao Dam’s poetic forms. And yet, it began with a single painting by Boi Tran, a quiet work of lacquer that spoke not of grandeur, but of grace. It was her voice, contemporary, contemplative, deeply human, that first drew him in. Among legends, her presence is not loud; it is luminous.

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‘I and The Call from Within’ Exhibition: Nguyen Trung on Boi Tran’s World of Grace and Art

Boi Tran, with a sensible heart and the gifted talent of an artist, fully perceives the artistic and literary beauty of nature that comes right out from her magnificent garden and then conveys that beauty most aesthetically to her works.

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Curated by Boi Tran Art Gallery with a Preamble by Nguyen Trung: A Poem in Form and Colour, Hue, 1996, or the First Resonance of the Gallery

Curated by Boi Tran Art Gallery in 1996, this early exhibition marked the emergence of a space rooted in a simple devotion to art and supported by artists across Hue, Hanoi, and Saigon. In his preamble, Nguyen Trung described it as “a poem in form and colour,” a first resonance of a space that would come to connect generations of Vietnamese artists.

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