Poetry of the Motherland opens on Thursday 17th June 2010 at Apricot Gallery, London and will introduce iconic works from two of the leading contemporary Vietnamese artists, Tran Luu Hau and Hoang Duc Dung. Tran Luu Hau, at 82 years old, is one of the fathers of Vietnamese Contemporary art and was a student at the Viet Bac Fine Arts School during the war. His work expresses his emotions in its ‘subjective deformation of nature’, just as he said “What is important is to express one’s emotions”. Hoang Duc Dung is one of the youngest Vietnamese artists on the international art scene yet one of the most talented. As seen in his Nudes in BLue and Nudes in Red series, Hoang Duc Dung has broken new ground in his work, moving away from the Vietnamese traditions of folk art or Impressionism by creating his own unique style.