Co-organized by the Art Museum and the Department of Fine Arts, the exhibition ‘Radiant Legacy: Ancient Chinese Gold from the Mengdiexuan Collection’ will present the collection of about 300 Eurasian and Chinese gold artifacts dating from ca. 1500 BCE to 1700 CE in the Mengdiexuan Collection. This ancient Chinese gold exhibition is the first comprehensive, systematic presentation of gold in ancient China held in a Hong Kong museum.
More than just an exhibition of one private collection, this will be the first large-scale, art-historical, intercultural, and technical study of Chinese gold from the earliest times. As a material that was introduced into China through its contact with non-Chinese groups during the late 2nd millennium BCE, gold brought with it not simply a new visual appeal, but completely new technical, artistic, and cultural implications in the complex interactions between cultures, peoples, and regions over time and space.
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Exhibition |
Symposium |
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Date |
5.5–27.10.2013 |
4.5.2013 |
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Venue |
Art Museum |
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Registration |
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8.4.2013 |
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Enquiries |
3943 7372 |
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