An arts space has been created on the eastern end of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge along Tran Hung Dao as part of the city’s street arts programme in hosting the 2017 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Week from 6-11 November.

Murals: A pedestrian walks past a mural on concrete beams of the Dragon Bridge . — VNS Photo Cong Thanh

Painter Phan Thanh Hai from the city’s Culture and Arts College told Viet Nam News that a group of lecturers and students spent 10 days completing murals on a set of concrete columns, beams and girders under the bridge.

“We turned rough concrete columns of the bridge into colourful arts spaces that sent tourists and pedestrians snapping photos while walking,” Hai said.

“The arts space connecting with food courts, cafés and an arts performance stage on the east side of the bridge, is expected to become an entertainment area for visitors along the Han River banks,” he noted.

Hai said the programme, which started on 21 October, includes free portrait painting and calligraphy for tourists, plus an exhibition of mixed printing making 3D and art installations.

Artists have decorated concrete columns and beams with lively ocean scenery using 3D art, featuring the rich biodiversity of the Son Tra Nature Reserve on the namesake peninsula.

Last year, college artists also debuted 2 paintings, which were recognised as the largest  acrylics on canvas in Viet Nam, in a pedestrian tunnel on the western end of the Dragon Bridge along Bach Dang.

Another group of sculptors and artists are decorating a 1.5km concrete sea dyke wall in the My Khe Beach with paintings and ceramic mosaics as an arts space and a tourist attraction.

In May, a mural created by artist Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy and her colleagues from the New Ha Noi Arts Company located at the Da Nang International Airport won a bronze medal at the 10^th International Design Awards (IDA).

(Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today)