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Installation by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, A Rising Moon Through The Smoke (12 plate bells with 10th from bottom made of cast brass artillery shell, remaining 11 plate bells cast from 15% UXO bomb metal and 85% stainless steel; 149.625" x 118.125" x 118.125", 2022). The image illustrates a key body of work in Tuan Andrew Nguyen career, his sculptural works, which appear in his videos and installations. It depicts an installation of musical bells that he created from repurposed metals (unexploded ordnance and artillery shell metals) remaining from the American war in Vietnam. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Copyright held by the artist.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating the sculptural work of by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, a key part of his artistic practice. His sculptures are often used in moving-image works and installations that examine the fragmentation and trauma of colonization, war and displacement, often form the history of Vietnam. His sculptures explore the notion of material memory embedded in objects (animism), seeking to give visibility and voice to displaced and marginalized communities, often through testimonial objects that serve as physical repositories of the past. For example, he has repurposed objects ranging from decorative animal statuary to salvaged bombshells from the American war in Vietnam in order to examine the traumas of war and extinction. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this fundamental body of work in his overall art, which brought Nguyen ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Nguyen's work of this type and this work itself is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.