A new work swells the funds of International Contemporary Art of the National museum of fine arts. This is “Ilusión”, a piece on loan from the photographer Réhahnan artist of French origin established in Vietnam.
In the snapshot of a Vietnamese Buddhist temple, Réhahn has recreated brushstrokes due to the effect of the heat burning the fields, thereby managing to connote the immediacy that the impressionist painters sought.
The creator delivered the work to the Cuban institution in the presence of its director, Jorge Fernández Torres, other directors and specialists.
The work came to the Museum through Arianna Feo Labrada, Consul General of Cuba in Ho Chi Minh, who highlighted at the event the relations between both countries, as well as the proximity to these cultures with which the artist has identified.
For her part, Réhahn described this moment as important for her resume, among the twenty occasions on which she has visited our nation since 2007. Meanwhile, Margarita González, curator of the institutional collection of International Contemporary Art of the 20th and 21st centuries , thanked the gesture that expands its volume and particularly the photography segment.
The artist traveled through more than 35 countries before settling in the city of Hoi An, in Vietnam, some time after visiting it during a humanitarian mission, and where he gave life to his Precious Heritage Project, through which he documented the traditions and future cultural heritage of the country’s 54 ethnic groups, to create the homonymous museum that gifted the ancient coastal city, declared World Heritage by UNESCO, where he exhibits more than a hundred snapshots, among other native objects.
There, he managed to recreate some of the idyllic rural scenes that inspired the Impressionist painters of his native Normandy, and with their influence, Réhahn decided to merge pictorial and snapshot works, offering testimony to his interest in nature, bright colours and light, to compose his Impressionist photographs.
Source: National Museum of Fine Arts
