{"id":723,"date":"2019-05-24T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=723"},"modified":"2023-09-03T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T14:36:23","slug":"723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/765374993?h=0e1f69bb2c&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"Collecting Vietnamese Art with Dr Tuan Pham | Christie&amp;#039;s\"><\/iframe>\n\t<p>Dr Tuan Pham, the San Diego-based collector who assembled a collection of Vietnamese art in order to reconnect with his homeland. For the American-Vietnamese collector Dr Tuan Pham, collecting Vietnamese art has been an educational and emotional adventure. &#8216;Vietnamese art is really about history and culture,&#8217; he explains. &#8216;It tells you a story that you didn&#8217;t know before.&#8217; The collector&#8217;s interest in the art from his homeland was sparked by a chance encounter in the late 1990s. &#8216;I just happened to walk by a gallery [in South Florida], and as I approached the painting, I saw that it was signed in Chinese characters above the name Le Pho,&#8217; Pham explains. He purchased the painting without realising that the artist Le Pho was in fact from Vietnam. &#8216;It was the first painting in my Vietnamese collection, and it started a personal journey that reconnects me with my birthplace,&#8217; he says. Pham was born in Vietnam, but fled to the United States in 1975 as a 13-year-old refugee, escaping with his brother. Later, he moved from Florida to California where he met his wife, and in 1992 he founded Phamatech, a biotechnology company and laboratory that&#8217;s based in San Diego. &#8216;So many [20th-century Vietnamese] artists grew up in Vietnam, but left Vietnam for France and made a career out of that,&#8217; Pham explains. &#8216;I did the same thing. There&#8217;s always been a Vietnamese part of me and an American part of me, and this blending of the two cultures is similar to what I see in some of the artists&#8217; work that I collect. It&#8217;s why I have enjoyed the [collecting] journey so much.&#8217;<\/p>\nThe Tuan Pham Collection I: <a href=\"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=1149\">Elegance of the Heart and Vietnamese Masterworks<\/a><br \/>\nThe Tuan Pham Collection II: <a href=\"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=6472\">The Conquest of the West<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Tuan Pham, the San Diego-based collector who assembled a collection of Vietnamese art in order to reconnect with his homeland. For the American-Vietnamese collector Dr Tuan Pham, collecting Vietnamese art has been an educational and emotional adventure. &#8216;Vietnamese art is really about history and culture,&#8217; he explains. &#8216;It tells you a story that you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[78,27,569,28,567,79,26],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-dignitaries-collectors-collections","tag-20th-21st-century-art","tag-christies","tag-elegance-of-the-heart-and-vietnamese-masterworks","tag-jean-francois-hubert","tag-the-conquest-of-the-west","tag-the-tuan-pham-collection","tag-tuan-pham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}