Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King
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by Heather
2d ago
A new exhibition in London explores the life and legacy of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839), the founder of the Sikh Empire (1799-1849), and the Lion of Punjab, Sher-e-Punjab. In a period ridden with anarchy following decades of Afghan invasions, Ranjit Singh emerged as the Punjab region’s undisputed maharaja by the turn of the 19th century. Possessed with an indomitable sense of destiny, his meteoric rise to power brought about the hugely influential Sikh Empire – a kingdom that created seismic change in the region, impacting the fortunes of the Mughal and British Empires and shaping the fut ..read more
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Angkor Complex: Cambodian History
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by Heather
2d ago
This thought-provoking exhibition considers the art of Cambodia and its diaspora through 80 works, created from the 12th century to the present day, to explore the distinct formal strategies and artistic innovations that emerged in the face of – and in response to – colonialism, significant social upheavals, war, and genocide. It features work from some of the foremost members of the modern and contemporary Cambodian art scene, including Vann Nath, Sopheap Pich, Svay Sareth, Amy Lee Sanford, and Leang Seckon, as well as significant historical works. Through architectural fragments, sculptural ..read more
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Ainu Culture in Japan
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by Heather
2d ago
The Ainu are an indigenous people who have been living in northern Japan, especially on Hokkaido and the surrounding islands. In the past, members of this community were not able to fully express their distinct culture – a situation that caused many to fear for its long-term survival. During the 1960s and 1970s, Kayano Shigeru (1926-2006), who was born in 1926 in the small village of Nibutani, a rural village in Hokkaido’s Biratori area, was the first Ainu to sit in Japan’s parliament. He inspired a movement to celebrate, sustain, and develop this distinct and lesser-known of the Japanese cult ..read more
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MANILA GALLEON
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by Heather
1M ago
This is the museum’s first large-scale exhibition tracing historical trade links across the Pacific that connected Asia to the Americas and Europe. Featuring over 140 objects spanning the 16th to the 20th centuries, the exhibition allows visitors to discover how the movement of people, goods, and ideas through the Philippines and Mexico created a distinctive cultural and artistic heritage that was shared between seemingly distant regions. Looking at Manila as a precursor of Singapore, the exhibition also reflects on the unique qualities of the blended society and highlights the impact and impo ..read more
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Master Weaver Itaro Yamaguchi
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by Heather
1M ago
The second part of the exhibition exploring visual culture influenced by The Tale of Genji in Paris, is dedicated to Itaro Yamaguchi (1901-2007), a master weaver from the Nishijin district of Kyoto, who wove and donated to the Guimet Museum four scrolls illustrating the epic tale. These scrolls represent the culmination of a life dedicated to weaving. Made by copying painted scrolls from the Heian period (794-1185) and a hybridisation with the high technicality of Western Jacquard mechanics – and its digital avatar – the four scrolls are on show for the first time together in their entirety. T ..read more
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INDIAN SKIES
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by Heather
1M ago
Howard Hodgkin’s (1932-2017) collection of Indian paintings includes works created at the Mughal, Deccan, Rajput, and Pahari courts dating from the 16th to the 19th century. It presents a unique and personal vision of India’s great painting traditions. The artist Howard Hodgkin had been a devoted collector of Indian paintings since his schooldays in the late 1940s. He first encountered Indian paintings as a student at school, which was later fostered by a chance encounter in London, in 1959, with Stuart Cary Welch, the great American scholar and collector of Indian art, rekindled his passion ..read more
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Ziminzhong: Chinese Clocks
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by Heather
1M ago
A major new exhibition featuring 23 mechanical clocks from China, zimingzhong, are currently on loan from The Palace Museum. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the 18th century, from the Chinese trading port of Guangzhou to the Forbidden City in the centre of Beijing. Translating to ‘bells that ring themselves’, zimingzhong are more than just clocks: they present an enchanting combination of a flamboyant aesthetic, timekeeping, music, and sometimes movement using mechanisms new to most people in 1700s China. Wang Xudong, Director of The Palace Museum, commented on the theme of ..read more
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ASIAN ART COLLECTORS IN FRANCE
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by Heather
4M ago
This exhibition explores the connoisseurs, collectors, and dealers of Asian Art in France from 1750 to 1939. Works in the exhibition come from a multitude of sources, including objects from the royal collections of Louis XV and Marie-Antoinette to the commercial and scientific collecting done in Asia from the 1850s to the 1930s. There is also a section of the craze for all things Japanese, that emerged in France, Japonism, in the late 19th century. Over 300 works, including lacquers, porcelains, ivories, bronzes, screens, prints and illustrated books, silk paintings, and theatre masks, explore ..read more
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CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY
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by Heather
4M ago
Over the winter, the Guimet Museum, in Paris, is presenting the photographic project Hakanai Sonzai, which means in Japanese ‘I feel like an ephemeral creature myself’. Through the use of colour portraits, landscapes, and black and white still lifes resembling prints, Pierre-Elie de Pibrac recounts the feeling of impermanence that permeates Japanese culture. Continuing anthropological and social photographic work initiated in 2016 in Cuba, Pierre-Elie de Pibrac (b 1983) travelled across Japan between December 2019 and August 2020 to produce the Hakanai Sonzai series. During this immersive inve ..read more
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Liquid Frontiers: East West Influences
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by Heather
4M ago
This third chapter from the series of exhibitions called Liquid Frontiers and Entangled Worlds is part of a composite research programme taking place at MAO between 2023 and 2024, which seeks to analyse the artistic trajectories and cultural dynamics that have characterised exchange between Asia and Europe over the centuries. Eurasian Traditions highlights the critical role of Asia and the Mediterranean as a fulcrum of cross-cultural interaction and as site of connection, negotiation and constant re-emergence. This exploration of cultural translation, transposition, and interpretation is done ..read more
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