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S.Korean artist showcases artworks in Hanoi

The exhibition will display 1,300 paper butterflies created by worldwide and Vietnamese children with disabilities and autism as well as 20 artworks of Ahn Yun Mo and five disabled Korean painters.

A large-scale exhibition of South Korean artist Ahn Jun Mo titled “Become a Butterfly” is slated to take place from August 21 to December 14 at the Korean Cultural Center in Vietnam, at 49 Nguyen Du street, Hanoi, VOV News reported. 
 
An exhibition of  Yun-Mo Ahn, Jacques Jarrige and children with autism. Photo by artsy.net
An exhibition of Yun-Mo Ahn, Jacques Jarrige and children with autism. Photo by artsy.net
The exhibition will display 1,300 paper butterflies created by worldwide and Vietnamese children with disabilities and autism as well as 20 artworks of Ahn Yun Mo and five disabled Korean painters. 

The event is a part of an international namesake project, which was launched by Ahn in 2013, aiming to break the wall between the disabled and the able-bodied people and bring them closer together. 

Under the project, exhibitions were held in Brussels (Belgium), New York (US) Bali, Jakarta (Indonesia), Beijing (China), Nairobi (Kenya), Paris (France), among other cities in the world. 

Ahn Yun Mo has organized 78 individual exhibitions in South Korea and overseas as well as 80 projects with the attendance of children with disabilities and autism.

Director of the Korean Cultural Center in Vietnam Park Hye-jin stressed that art and culture are bringing people together and each paper butterfly conveys an individual message of is little creator.  
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