Khanh Hoa’s fine arts and photography show signs of progress

Over the past year, Khanh Hoa Province has organized many fine arts and photography exhibitions. Khanh Hoa artists have won many good awards, which partly proved the forte of Khanh Hoa artists in these two forms of art.

Khanh Hoa’s authorities viewing the works exhibited at the fine-arts and photography exhibition held on the occasion of Sea Festival 2023

As said by Nguyen Van Viet, deputy director in charge of the Provincial Culture-Cinema Center, in 2023, Khanh Hoa was the venue for many political, economic, cultural and art activities and events organized at province-level and nation-level. Therefore, there were relatively more photo exhibitions held in the province last year, such as photo exhibition held in Lunar New Year 2023 occasion, exhibition celebrating the 370th anniversary of Khanh Hoa Province's construction and development (1653-2023), exhibition about ethnic groups in Khanh Hoa on the occasion of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day (April 19), and exhibition about the friendship between Khanh Hoa and Japan within the framework of Khanh Hoa-Japan investment promotion conference. Besides, the artists of the Provincial Culture-Cinema Center took part in the themed exhibition about Vietnam’s sea and island culture in Binh Thuan Province and the exhibition on cultural heritages and traditional handmade products in Ninh Binh Province organized by Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Arts, and so on.

Khanh Hoa Provincial Association of Literature and Art organized the fine-arts and photo exhibition to respond to Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa Sea Festival 2023; introduced 300 works of 69 painters, sculptors, and photography artists in the province; held the fine arts and photography exhibition namely Khanh Hoa welcomes New Year 2024 featuring 89 works by 89 artists. The works of 10 Khanh Hoa photography artists were selected to participate in the 28th south central - central highland artistic photography festival held in Quang Ngai Province. Photographic artists namely Ho Trung Lam won a silver medal in the 12th International Photo Contest in Vietnam conducted by the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists (VAPA), under the patronages of International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP); Ha Binh was given an honorary degree by the Photographic Society of America (PSA) in the international photo contest namely Reflex 2023; Trinh Xuan Dao won a PSA gold medal in the Magic Dof 2023 competition; Pham Ngoc Thanh won a gold medal in a photo contest of Cyprus.

Young people viewing photos at an exhibition held at Tram Huong Tower on the occasion of 370 years of construction and development of Khanh Hoa

In fine arts, Khanh Hoa artists and sculptors actively participated in many contests about paintings, symbols and emblems to serve political tasks inside and outside the province. 23 works of 22 Khanh Hoa artists were highly regarded and were selected to display in the exhibition of region V – southern central and highland regions. Painters Tran Ha and Bui Trung Chinh of Khanh Hoa got consolation prizes in this exhibition. Painter Bui Van Quang won the consolation prize in the painting competition on Vietnam’s cultural heritages; painter Huynh Thi Minh Ha won first prize in the 2023 award for young artists of Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association. Khanh Hoa sculptors Dang Van Duc, Bui Trung Chinh and Ngo Van Thanh had works selected to display in the 2023 national sculpture exhibition.

According to Le Van Hoa, deputy director of Khanh Hoa Provincial Department of Culture and Sports, in 2023, Khanh Hoa’s fine arts, photography and exhibition showed signs of progress. Khanh Hoa writers and fine arts and photography artists created valuable works with diverse and rich content with focus on homeland, Khanh Hoa and its people, cultural heritages, environment, economy, sea and islands, capturing the interest of people who love art and the public. Each work of art and photography conveyed good cultural values to the society, meeting the spiritual and cultural needs of the public.

Giang Dinh
Translated by H.N