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In early 2025, the Des Moines Art Center launched a five-year strategic plan and one of the four exciting priorities for our efforts is to “Bring the World to Iowa, and Iowa to the World.” With that in mind, it is the perfect opportunity to welcome Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, an artist whose practice is based in Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam to the Art Center on May 4.Nguyễn’s absorbing video “The Boat People” (2020), is a major element of the current exhibition “Time Travelers” (on view in the Anna K. Meredith Gallery through May 11). This video is part of the museum’s permanent collections, as is “AK-47 vs. M16” (2015), a mixed media sculpture by The Propeller Group, an artist collective of which Nguyễn is a founding member.
Left Photo: by Lee Starnes
Right Photo: Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn (Vietnamese, born 1976)
The Boat People (film still), 2020
Single-channel video, 4k, Super 16mm transferred to digital, color, 5.1 surround sound
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey Moving-Image and Time-Based Art Fund and the Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., 2023.32
Image courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York
Free; registration required.
https://desmoinesartcenter.org/event/artist-lecture-tuan-andrew-nguyen/
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Des Moines Art Center, 4700 Grand Ave,Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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