Than Nguyen "Journey Back in Time" Painting Oil on canvas, 1995 Price: $ 5000		Suoi Hoa Bui "Thinking" Painting Oil on canvas, 2006 Price: $ 5000		Suoi Hoa Bui "Dancing" Painting Oil on canvas, 2004 Price: $ 5000

Featured Exhibition:
	Autumn Programme 2008-09-05 to 2008-11-09: Please visit www.oc-eo.co.uk for more details of these upcoming exhibitions: 5th-14th September 'Through Eastern Eyes' Sutcliffe Galleries, Harrogate 30th September-4th November 'Rising Stars' Beijing Art Salon, China World Trade Centre, Beijing 16th-19th October 'Women, Art, Life' Red Dot London, Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel, ...

Exhibitions:
Hometown - 2008-06-30 until 2008-07-12
The Space Beyond - 2008-04-28 until 2008-05-10

Gallery Statement:
Oc-Eo Art specialises in contemporary Asian fine art and, in particular, contemporary and modern painting from Vietnam.

Doi Moi (Renovation) was launched in Vietnam in 1986 with a call to ‘untie the strings’, to provide free space for the full development of literature and art.

For artists, ‘untie the strings’ meant refusing the rules of socialist realism, its monotony of style, form and topic. Quickly returning to the rich pre-colonial heritage of their tradition, they have also tried to absorb and digest all the achievements of a century of western modernism - from cubism, expressionism, abstraction, to surrealism, abstract expressionism and pop-art - and to make from this cultural cross-roads, something uniquely Vietnamese.

Oc-Eo Art's collection of both young and established contemporary and fine art from Vietnam perfectly captures the yearning for individual freedom, self-affirmation and personal discovery that has characterised Vietnamese painting since ‘Doi Moi’.