Waves & Rocks

Bui Duy Khanh, born on September 10th in 1972 in Hai Phong, is one of the few self-study artists highly appreciated by Vietnamese art critics. Reporting on him, researcher and critic Nguyen Quan said “watercolor paintings by Bui Duy Khanh are different from the Vietnamese watercolor paintings which are familiar, feminine. These paintings are blocked in - gentle, glowing dully – vague or pretty – eye-catching … The artist has mastered real techniques of European watercolors, has been skillful enough to express everything: bulky and rough, sharp and heavy, quiet and warm, gnarled and rusty, withered and rotten, boundless and rippling between two fingers, silent and screaming as the artist has talked about the sea, rocks – sand, sky – clouds, concrete – shells of barnacles, foam – waves… Poetry connected with the life at sea of fishermen is really attractive and manly. There is something liberal, attractive in little artworks."