Phung Vo: 2 Fevrier, 1861

In Danh Vos's installation arrangements of objects, photographs, documents, artifacts and souvenirs, the private meets the public, his own biography on political history, original on copy. 

The two-volume publication provides a complete overview of Danh Vo's stringent work for the first time. The first volume provides a detailed and chronologically edited summary of his projects and exhibitions, supplemented by numerous installation footage, and texts by Julie Ault, Yilmaz Dziewior, Doryun Chong and Oscar Faria dealing with the aspects of biography and history, ready-made and appropriation, poetry and poetry policy in Danh Vo’s work. 

The second volume honors the participation of Father Danh Vo’s, Phung Vo, in the projects of his son as a separate work complex. A number of copies of a letter written in France in the nineteenth century, written by Théophane Vénard, who was later beheaded by the Catholic Church as a martyr, before the beheading of his own father.

This book accompanying Danh Vo’s solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz pays homage to the artist’s father, Phung Vo, and his contributions to his son’s projects. Together with “Dahn Vo 2004-2012,” this volume constitutes a Danh Vo catalogue raisonne.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Danh Vō

Danh Vō was born in Bà Rja, Vietnam, 1975. Vō’s family fled the country in a homemade boat when Vo was four years old, the vessel was rescued at sea by a Danish freighter. Grew up in Denmark, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1998-2002) in Copenhagen and the Städelschule (2002-2005) in Frankfurt, Danh Vō currently lives in Berlin and Mexico City. His artistic practices often address issues relating to identity and belonging, authority, ownership, the role of personal relationships and other conditions that define human existence in contemporary time. 

Photo by Wen Peng

Image and Text: the shop, ©Authors, the shop, 2019