Current exhibitions
Cutting Edge: Untraditional Papercuts by Three Contemporary Artists
December 19th 2009 – April 25th 2010
From Saturday 19th December 2009, the Museum of East Asian Art will be hosting a breathtaking exhibition of contemporary papercuts by three artists of Chinese descent, Lo Jhy Yen, Nie Chun-Mei, and Zhang Wenqing. “Cutting Edge: Untraditional Papercuts by Three Contemporary Chinese Artists”, will display an array of colourful and unusual works until 25th April 2010. The exhibition will run concurrently with the Museum’s Lunar New Year celebrations in February 2010.
The development of paper has been entwined with the history of China for thousands of years so it is not surprising that it has just as long a tradition of being used in ornamentation. Ornamental papercuts are especially important around the time of the Lunar New Year, when old ones would be taken down to be replaced by new papercuts for the coming year. Now practiced in many countries throughout the world with varying techniques and subject matters, the papercutting of China is often seen as traditional and rustic. This is however not the case – with recent exhibitions in China featuring papercuts of athletes in honour of the 1st anniversary of the Beijing Olympic Games and the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
Seifu Yohei and his Contemporaries: Meiji Ceramics in the Scholarly Taste
19th December 2009 – 25th April 2010
The Museum of East Asian Art’s new exhibition “Seifu Yohei and His Contemporaries: Meiji Porcelain in the Chinese Imperial and Literati Taste” opens to the public on Saturday 19th December 2009. This exhibition showcases the beautiful collection of Meiji period Ceramics made by Seifu Yohei (1851 – 1914) and other contemporary potters and will be on display to the public until 25th April 2010.
