Foreign clients visit Thai Vinh Bamboo Arts

Lots of materials are used to create art, but Thai Vinh and his gifted craftsmen stick to bamboo and oils to make their special paintings, both for aesthetic reasons and to preserve a strong Vietnamese tradition.

Know for his mixed media works that highlight social change, American artist Bradford Edwards has made artwork in Vietnam since 1992. Here, he reflects on the changing natural of Vietnam contemporary art scene.

Around the turn of the millennium, it became clear that the art market in Vietnam was far from flourishing. People, who in the nineties contributed to the boom in art sale, and who look forward to further development in Vietnamese art, began to feel disappointed and turn away from the one existing in new market.