Hom Nguyen

Hom Nguyen, born in Paris in 1972, Working with charcoal, gouache, oil or pen, each of his paintings appears as a fight, a confrontation with the material from which is born a will: to reveal the deepest of the human being through the lines and the color. Most of Hom's work revolves around the creation of monumental portraits. The choice of colors, the application of the material or the vivacity of the gesture are always made to show the world his vision of the human being beyond appearances. His works capture and transcend the depth of feeling and the complexity of emotions that overwhelm the human soul. His subtle representations deal with the duality of the visible and the invisible, the material and the immaterial. In this way, Hom Nguyen pushes each of us to reflect, to introspect, on what we show of ourselves, what we try to hide and what we really are. The unspoken work opens up to the invisible or unshown, the suggested. It is the idea that the artist takes himself as a paradigm that from an individual representation is his explanation of the world. An individual like the travelers, the expatriates, the anonymous or the celebrities, each one carries an essential message, true link of the elementary chain. Never have faces shown the world so much. Is it not necessary to have a background, a backdrop, to understand in which space we evolve? His portraits are directly linked to our daily life: they interact with us and create a dialogue with them. This is how Hom recreates humans and humanity.