The “Melody From Above” fine arts exhibition by artist Tran The Vi brings an emotionally rich creative space, where colors, light, and music blend, forming resounding visual melodies. This is not just an art display but the artist’s journey leading viewers closer to his inner world—where art touches the sublime of the soul.
Introduction to the “Melody From Above” Exhibition
The “Melody From Above” exhibition by artist Tran The Vi opens an artistic world where colors and forms resound like musical notes. This is not a typical painting display but a creative journey constructed like a symphony, guiding viewers through various emotional levels—from gentle, soaring to majestic, intense.
Each work in the exhibition is like a “visual movement,” where painting transcends visual boundaries to touch auditory senses and inner emotions. Viewers will feel as if appreciating paintings while immersed in a wordless harmony—where music and painting merge.
- Time: March 22 – April 13, 2025
- Location: Quang San Art Museum – 189B/3 Nguyen Van Huong, Thao Dien, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City
- Purpose: Opens a new approach for the public: not just appreciating paintings but sensing like listening to an invisible melody, letting each color and line perform in the viewer’s mind.
- Special Significance: The exhibition is an artistic tribute to Dalat land—where memories, mist, and high spaces meet. It goes beyond describing landscapes to delve into emotional layers, evoking the land’s resonance.
Introduction to Artist Tran The Vi
Tran The Vi is a special face of Vietnamese contemporary art. He does not choose the easy path of following a familiar style, but always seeks innovation in thinking, shape and material. For him, each work is not only a product of artistic labor, but also a musical note played from the depths of the soul.
During many years of being attached to painting, Tran The Vi has tirelessly experimented to break familiar limits. If in the early stages, his paintings still had an impressionistic and expressive tendency, then later on, Vi increasingly turned to musical abstraction. He exploited the language of color and lines like a musician playing on a visual orchestra, turning the color palette into keys, turning brushstrokes into rhythms.
In particular, the long period of living and composing in the Da Lat plateau left a strong mark on his career. The foggy space, the vast sky, the pine forests like natural background music have deeply penetrated Vi’s artistic sense. From there, he built his own style: paintings are not only for looking at, but also for listening.
The works in the exhibition “Melody from above” are the result of many years of struggle. It marks the journey of maturity of an artist who always yearns to fly up, beyond stereotypes, to find a new artistic language, both deeply personal and opening up the possibility of a wide dialogue with the public.
Space & Display Method of the Exhibition
The exhibition “Melody from above” by artist Tran The Vi is designed as a concert of colors and emotions. From the moment they step into the exhibition space, viewers can feel the “resonance” of painting, where each work becomes a musical instrument, together creating a visual symphony. In that space, viewers not only see but also hear the colors speak, hear the inner melody echo, and then bring back unforgettable echoes after leaving the exhibition.
- Open layout & free rhythm: Instead of being arranged linearly, the works are displayed according to the flow of emotions, like musical notes spread evenly in a symphony. This allows viewers not only to follow a beaten path, but to find their own rhythm of enjoyment, to suddenly stop, admire a work for a long time, or let their eyes drift along the color block to the next painting.
- Lighting as a conductor: The lighting system is not simply illuminating, but is calculated to guide the viewer. Each painting is like a miniature stage, where light supports, highlights colors and layers of materials, giving the work depth and vitality as if it were “performing”.
- Artistic silence – a pause in the music: Between clusters of brilliant paintings, the artist and curator cleverly place intentional gaps. These are “pauses”, for viewers to pause, listen to the echoes before moving on to the next chapter of the exhibition.
- Continuous flow: The exhibition space is designed to have no absolute starting or ending point. Viewers can start from any painting, but still feel like they are walking in a seamless flow – like attending a piece of music with many chapters, with an introduction, climax, echoes and an end.
Materials Used by the Artist in the Exhibition
In Tran The Vi’s creations, materials are not mere tools but “second language” conveying hidden meanings.
- Acrylic and oil: Flexibly exploited to open translucent, graceful color fields, creating subtle yet strong visual depth.
- Mixed materials: Vi often “liberates” paintings from traditional limits by incorporating non-standard elements. This creates surprising effects, making surfaces multi-layered, evoking a world both familiar and mystical.
- Craftsmanship spirit: Through overlapping color layers, brush traces or surface handling, viewers sense the artist’s labor journey.
This combination shows rich creative thinking: Tran The Vi not only “uses” materials but dialogues with them, letting them directly join the story he wants to tell. Thus, his paintings always ring “visual resonances” drawing viewers into endless emotional flows.
Some Images at the “Melody From Above” Exhibition
The exhibition “Melody from above” is not only a place to display paintings, but also a meeting of painting, music and soul. Viewers leave the exhibition with the feeling of having just listened to an emotional piece of music, and then realize: art always has the ability to bring people closer to freedom and sublimation.
