Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition, ‘One Endless Summer’ features 25 artworks from across Do Trong Quy’s articulation of toys and their physical appearance. Inspired by one-liner jokes, his large-scale paintings are still life landscapes of mixed playfulness and subtle irony, depicting the mundane woes of human life.

For the past year, Quy has incorporated imagery from his toy collection – including cars, boats, animals, and tiny people – into landscapes of household objects, creating dramatic encounters in the capricious world of figures. He deploys a classic method of still life painting, built on laxly brush movement and versatile application of his palette. The combination of subdued, somber color and comical composition work together to evoke both visual and perceptual atmospheres. Honoring personal history, Quy’s technique underlies a sense of continuity with the process of discovering individual sets of artistic paradigms. This core value allows him to manipulate the relationships of such objects in a manner that is intimate yet inaccessible, domestic yet strange.

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