After this exhibition, Nguyễn Văn Tiến again disappeared without a trace for a long time. Some people said he has retired. But some other said this quietness of Nguyễn Văn Tiến “is also an activity of arts”.
The sudden return of Nguyễn Văn Tiến with the series “Construction waste II – The birth of Venus” – with the cooperative creation of a “Ferro-concrete drilling and cutting” group in the evening of 24 October 2012, in a temporary hut amid the slum area of Bình Triệu District, Ho Chi Minh City – also caused many controversial opinions. There is still a prickly Nguyễn Văn Tiến with the contemporary issues. But in this exhibition, it was like a surgery almost “cruel” into the self of the artist, of his own conceptions of arts and lives.
