As far as everone knows Nguyễn Văn Tiến was one of the two artists in the “Văn Miếu event” (Temple of Literature happening) in Ha Noi in 1997. This event has caused a wave of public opinions among the Vietnamese artist community, and left a host of problems that until now – or in a very long time – still requires further investigation and discussion.
Nguyen Hung

The shock caused by Tiến and Quân is one of the few good news from the art environment of Vietnam within the last fifteen years; at the same time it rejects the claim of Nora Taylor that Vietnamese art is essentially apolitical.                         
Patrick Raszelenberg (Patrick Raszelenberg was a researcher at the Institute of Asian Studies in Berlin)