The Red Gallery is to present the first ever solo exhibition by a Burmese artist in Dubai and the Middle East from Tuesday 27th October 2009.
Aung Kyaw Htet is a talented artist from Myanmar [Burma] who has risen from a very humble beginning to become one of the country’s leading artists. He was born in 1965 in Myaungmya in the Delta region where the mighty Ayeyarwaddi River flows into the Indian Ocean. It is a remote area with frequent floods and very few roads where the vast majority of the population in the area lives as rice farmers.
He made his way to Yangon and enrolled as a student at the State School of Fine Arts since he had an urge to be an artist. He is a devout Buddhist and grew up in a small village — two factors which have a strong influence on his art. His paintings of religious life in Burma show monks and nuns in a realistic manner, though non-essential objects are omitted from the paintings in order to focus on the religious aspects. Aung Kyaw Htet paints the faces of monks and nuns in great detail to show their humanity. His works have been widely exhibited in Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, India and are now found in the permanent collections of museums such as the National Art Gallery of Malaysia and the National Museum of Myanmar.
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