A humorous and jovial character, Dinh Cong Dat’s work has a playfulness that exudes levity. He defaces and debunks traditional icons with immediacy and refreshing ease. His walls of concave heads splattered with gold lacquer creak and crack with ancestry in contrast to the convex heads almost defaced by the collaged tabloid magazines and newspapers of the present and future making distorted faces or images of archetypal beauty, unreal and unobtainable icons of plastic desire. The two images are diametrically opposed but seem to sit quite happily next to each other. They seem to be in an absolute state of harmony. Smiling Buddhas accepting each other’s hierarchy. It is a reflection of Vietnam today. Executed in a light-hearted, tongue in cheek, almost ‘Pop Art’ manner. Dinh Cong Dat is formally give up a m©ge let pepole kno w have to keep traditionale as the way go to the present