Anh Duong: La Tentation d'Exister. There is always Champagne in the Fridge.

Anh Duong:
La Tentation d’Exister
There is Always Champagne
in the Fridge
Anh Duong:
La Tentation d’Exister
There is Always Champagne
in the Fridge galerie gmurzynska
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Anh Duong:
La Tentation d’Exister
There is Always Champagne
in the Fridge
galerie gmurzynska
20th century master since 1965
w w w · g m u r z y n s k a · c o m
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Index
Introduction, Isabelle Bscher ................................... p. 4
Anh Duong, Peindre pour sauver son image:
la dialectique du peintre et du modèle, Jérôme Neutres ................................... p. 9
On Self Portraits, Anh Duong ................................. p. 17
Anh Duong (Self) Portraits, Glenn O’Brien ................................. p. 19
On Portrait, Anh Duong ................................. p. 41
Biography ................................ . p. 69
Collections ................................. p. 74
Bibliography, Solo and Group Exhibitions ..................................p. 77
Anh Duong, Paris
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Isabelle Bscher
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Anh Duong, La Promesse de l’Été, 2021
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Previous pages:
Louse Point II, 2012
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Anh Duong
Peindre pour sauver son
image: la dialectique du
peintre et du modèle
Par Jérôme Neutres 1
Le secret de Rembrandt
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littéralement l’image et l’imaginaire d’un certain art
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A la recherche du
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Jacques-Emile Blanche le peintre-écrivain
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Rosebud-
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Jérôme Neutres
Paris, June 2021
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Anh Duong in Andy Warhol’s Montauk house, Summer 1989
Mai Duong
M.F.
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Giacometti
“The biggest adventure is to see something new in
the same face over and over.”
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Is In
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Glenn O’Brien
Originally published in: “Anh Duong (Self) Portraits,”
Assouline, New York 2000
Glamour
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The Demon of
Progress in the Arts.
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Anh Duong in her studio, 1998
François Halard
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Vincent Gallo

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Anh Duong in Andy Warhol’s Montauk house, Summer 1989
Mai Duong
Je veux divorcer (I want to divorce)
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“Anh Duong is the Frida Kahlo
of the 21st century—unafraid of
men, unafraid of sex, unafraid
of criticism, unafraid of being
herself. Her work is both brave
and beautiful, stylish and
upsetting, way out and too in.
But it is of such contradictions
that art is made.”
Bob Colacello, 2000
The Indian Servant
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“If a single line could say everything,
I would like to stop there. I don’t
want to describe things but to reveal
them. In my opinion a portrait is
memory. I consider it as a dialectical
game with the mirror image, which
I analyse and deal with in a pictorial
manner. Every work of an artist is
a self-portrait. I am more conscious
of that process than most. The
subject matter disappears through
repetition.”
L’avantage de l’assassin sur la victime
(The advantage of the assassin upon the victim)
Anh Duong, 2011
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Broyer Du Rose
Les depravations de l’abstinance
(The depravation of abstinence)
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“I never start with the narrative: I
let it come through paint. I like to
start with the desire to paint a face,
an object or an image of a dream and
then the story will be told through
each brushstroke.”
Anh Duong, 2012
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Seule avec lui (Alone with him)

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Après la Dispute (After the fight)
Untitled
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“And it is the canvas that
speaks, it is not I that speaks on
the canvas.”
Anh Duong, 1999
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“This work is not manneristic or
decorative. It is not on automatic
pilot. Nor is it about style or
technique. There is a complete
urgency and necessity to every mark
in each painting.”
Julian Schnabel, 2000
A lot of unsafe places to be
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Philosophy and Prostitution
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Anh Duong and Simon de Pury
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Previous pages:
Anjelica Huston
Susan Sarandon
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Untitled (Single Shoe)
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Anh Duong in her Hamptons home, 2016
Oberto Gili
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“Anh Duong is the Frida Kahlo of
the 21st century. Her self-portraits
are engraved on the hard disk of
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our subconscious.”
Simon de Pury, 2021

Urgency of the Worst
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Looking for the ideal father
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Anh Duong with ‘Louse Point,’ 2010
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Louse Point
Portrait of the artist
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Anh Duong, 2021
There is always champagne in the fridge
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“I like to see how paintings affect
the space, turning the neutrality
of the gallery into a familiar place.
The paintings have been around
me in my studio for a long time. It’s
interesting seeing something that
is so close to me, so intimate, out
there in the world, in the public
eye. And when that happens,
they’re not mine anymore.”
Anh Duong, 1997
Trou de memoire
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Don’t Come too Close, Don’t Go too Far
Éloge de L’amour
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“My paintings – that’s where I
recognize myself the most... I always
try to stay as close to my dreams
as I can. Without dreams, nothing
would happen.”
Anh Duong, 1996
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Louse Point II
Capri c’est fini III
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Le Bonheur Paralyse mon Esprit
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Anh Duong
“(...) her paintings expose
an unexpected, unglamorous, intimate relationship with
her body (...) Duong’s paintings should be viewed as
contributions to a different genre - they belong alongside the
work of women such as Dora Maar, Anaïs Nin, and Frida
Kahlo, artists who compellingly exposed interior worlds
whose beauty, intelligence, and character inspired creativity,
both in themselves and in others”
Anh Duong sculpting Diane von Fürstenberg, 2005
François Halard
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Anh Duong, photographed by Jean Pigozzi
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Anh Duong’s 50 sculpted stars for the donor wall of the
renovated Statue of Liberty Museum, 2019
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Anne McNally
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Vincent Gallo
Domenico Dolce
Anne McNally
Andrea and Antoinette Caratsch
Frédéric Fékkai
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Anh Duong in Andy Warhol’s Montauk house, Summer
1989
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Contact sheet with photographs of Anh Duong,
Jean Pigozzi

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Anh Duong
To paint to save one’s
image: the dialectic of the
artist and the model
By Jérôme Neutres 1
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Rembrandt’s Secret
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There is Always Champagne in the Fridge.”
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Paris, June 2021
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Gregory Woollgar
Jérôme Neutres
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