The timeline is constantly moving. Looking back at history, there are times when people ask why this or that has disappeared, traditions fade away, brilliant and magnificent cultures come to an end. The answer to this question involves the fact that life changes from one generation to the next.
Mid-Autumn Festival in the old time and Mid-Autumn Festival today of Việt Nam are not the same, cannot avoid the fact that Mid-Autumn Festival of today in our eyes is no longer the same as before, not that taste, that spirit, that air. It is more difficult for children in modern times to have the experience of an old and bold Mid-Autumn Festival as in our memories.
Seeing ‘Shading autumn moon’ with contemplation and understanding to awaken identity, what viewers receive is the experience of memory and imagination about a journey in the small universe created by the hands of the artist. Hoàng Hữu Vân’s work often carries a message, or an elaborate record in the form of art, what he contemplates, summarizes, and questions for his own life and that of others. ‘Shading autumn moon’ of Hoàng Hữu Vân is the ‘Shading autumn moon’ in each of us, our memories, experiences and identities. The destination of the journey with the painting, where the little girl looks up at the full moon night sky with a smile, is the opening point of the future, when we ask questions for ourselves and our generation.
