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Ha Noi goes ‘dingbats’ at exhibition
Dingbats Brazil, an exhibition of Brazilian
graphic design, is now being held at the Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum. The
exhibition features a decade of digital pictorial alphabets – or dingbats – in
35 works by 22 prominent, contemporary designers.
Sponsored by the Brazilian Embassy in Ha Noi, the Ministry of Culture, Sports
and Tourism and the Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum, Dingbats Brazil presents a
little-known aspect of Brazilian graphic arts in the hope of promoting
understanding and a dialogue among artists and the public, said Brazilian
Ambassador to Viet Nam Joao de Mendonca Lima Neto.
Selected by graphic designer Bruno Porto in 2006 while he was the co-ordinator
of illustration studies for the Visual Arts Institute of Rio de Janeiro’s
UniverCidade, the exhibition also forms a chronicle of Brazilian culture through
icons of music, religion, arts, sport and cuisine. Many dingbats are pictograms
– tiny pictures of churches, airplanes, skiers, telephones and symbols used in
tourist industry.
In recent decades, Brazilian graphic design has become increasingly popular in
Latin America, Europe and Africa. This decade, a small but dedicated group of
Brazilian designers has sought to include Asia in this landscape, promoting
Brazilian graphic arts through exhibitions, magazine articles, workshops and
lectures, said Neto.
"We don’t want to present what you and the world have already known about Brazil
like football or samba," he added. "We want to introduce something you didn’t
have any idea about."
The exhibition runs through August 30 at 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street in Ha Noi..
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