A Man’s Dream of Freedom,2020
Hung Giang Nguyen (Ha Noi, b. 1996)
Having an unusual circular composition, A Man’s Dream of Freedom is an outstanding oil painting in Hung Giang Nguyen’s early career. Hung Giang often introspects his ego and an artist’s identity in his many self-portraits. A Man’s Dream of Freedom is surreal, with the background being the nature of Sapa, where he has become attached through the journeys of his youth. The free-flowing lines exude a feeling of complete freedom, like an aspiration to be fully creative and dedicated to art. The young artist lies upside down, perhaps to indicate the desire to go against the dominant trends in art, or to express his dream to go find something new and different.