Celebrating its second birthday, the Park officially introduces to the public the Sculpture Garden, a vibrant space for wordless dialogue.
Nearly 30 portrait statues of artists and artisans from many fields from all over the country, through the creative hands of Le Trieu Dien, Doan Xuan Hung and the couple Nguyen Sang - Kim Thanh, have been created in terracotta, to meet and have a wordless dialogue with tourists and the art public who come to the unique terracotta museum of Thanh Ha pottery village.
With rough, rustic, yet liberal and sophisticated shapes, Le Trieu Dien has interesting descriptions of writers Nguyen Dinh Thi, Ho Bieu Chanh, Son Nam, Nguyen Tuan, poet Xuan Dieu, painter Nguyen Gia Tri, philologist Truong Vinh Ky, musician Cao Van Lau; Doan Xuan Hung devotes his stylized inspiration to musicians Van Cao, Pham Duy, Trinh Cong Son, writer Son Nam and poet Bui Giang. As for the couple Nguyen Sang-Kim Thanh, with a style rich in realism, in addition to portraits of musicians Van Cao, Trinh Cong Son, Tran Van Khe, Phan Huynh Dieu and painter Bui Xuan Phai, they have devoted their efforts to portraying famous artisans of Thanh Ha pottery village such as Nguyen Thi Duoc, Nguyen Lanh, Le Trang, Nguyen Ngu, Le Thi Am as a way to honor the tradition of the craft village.
Through the planning of the sculpture garden of artists and artisans of Thanh Ha pottery village, although not yet complete, once again, Thanh Ha Terracotta Park has shown efforts to stimulate creative activities, the connecting role between craft villages, artists, artisans and the public, and more than that, a vision of cultural integration to open up the flow of terracotta culture, bringing the breath and voice of the land imbued with Vietnamese identity to contemporary life.
In the evening, the sunlight still penetrated through the green bamboo roof, sparkling on the raw material of the characters. Two children, about 3-7 years old, turned their heads around, looked at the terracotta characters, gently took one last step down and read:
” I am just a wandering singer passing through this land singing my premonitions of illusory dreams of life-
I'm just a busker living in this world to busk my afflatus illusory worldly dreams.”
and looked up to see the glasses shaking slightly...
