Hom Nguyen

Hom Nguyen, born in Paris in 1972, is a self-taught artist with instinctive style. As an unconventional personality, his works are just as much. Working with charcoal, gouache felt, oil or even pen, each of his paintings appear as a combat, a hand-to-hand confrontation with matter, from which arises a will to reveal the deepest aspects of the human psyche. Most of Hom’s work revolves around the creation of monumental portraits. The choice of colour, the application of the material or the vivacity of the gestural lines, are always done in order to demonstrate his vision of the human being beyond surface appearances. His works capture and transcend the depth of feeling and the complexity of emotion that overwhelm the human soul. His subtle representations deal with the duality of the visible and the invisible, the material and the immaterial. Thus, Hom Nguyen pushes each of us to a reflection, an introspection, on what we show of ourselves, what we are trying to hide, and who we really are.