Huong Dodinh: Transcendence
Cover of Huong Dodinh: Transcendence, 2024 © Pace Gallery
Over the last six decades, Huong Dodinh has devoted her practice to three central tenets—light, density, and transparency—through which she explores the fluidity of line, form, and negative space.
Huong Dodinh: Transcendence, 2024 © Pace Gallery
Published on the occasion of the artist’s first- ever solo presentation in the United States, Huong Dodinh: Transcendence brings together paintings and works on paper she has created over the course of her career, from the 1960s to the present day. Alongside an interview with the artist by Olivia Sand, a new text by Catherine David--presented in both English and French--explores Dodinh’s remarkable relationship with her work, through which she strives to harmonize relationships and engage in a meaningful exchange with the world around her. A chronology by her son, Khoa Dodinh, traces her life and career, including her emigration from Vietnam to France.
“Simplicity is what makes great art, since there is no demonstration of virtuosity. There is no desire to prove anything.”
“Dodinh’s oeuvre eludes genealogical readings, which rely on simplistic cultural or formal allocations, and resists superficial comparisons and filiations. Instead, her work calls for a sensitive, immanent experience, revealing itself to an attentive gaze...”
Publication Details
Text by Catherine David, Khoa Dodinh, Marc Glimcher. Interview by Olivia Sand.
Design by Atelier Dyakova
2024
Paperback
94 pages
9 ½ x 11 ½ in.
Cover of Huong Dodinh: Transcendence, 2024 © Pace Gallery
The exhibition opened on May 3rd and was on view until August 16, 2024, at Pace Gallery 510 West 25th Street in New York. For more information about this exhibition and others, please visit the Pace Gallery’s website here. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too. The magazine did a feature of the exhibition of the same name which can be found here.
