Rare Glimpses of China's Long-Hidden Treasures
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With the end of a 4-year long refurbishment, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan is now re-opening its doors to the public, and interestingly, to an all-too-common refrain:
"While the museum’s collection has an international reputation among art connoisseurs, it has been distinctly less popular in Taiwan, and especially among young Taiwanese who feel little connection to the mainland. Slightly more than half the museum’s two million visitors a year come from outside Taiwan, mainly from Japan, Korea and other countries in Asia."
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Meanings over spaces remain contested..
ReplyDeleteIn another article (which i've already given the link below), artefacts meaning change over places when they are brought "out of their closet". In some cosmopolitan cities, reglious artefacts impose no reglious pressure to the public. In fact nowadays, to many secular places such as Sydney and Melbourne where people regard little upon religions, reglious artefacts claim to have a aesthetics reason for being in the homes, restaurants and public places. This is becaming a growing and common trend in these cities, not perculiar anymore to spot a buddha artefact or its repelica lying on the garage sale of a homeware store.
But does it mean differently for one looking at a buddha staute from a temple in Tibet, in the museum or a Balinese restaurant? Do artefacts still hold teh same sacred meanings over places? How would one feel seeing a Ju Ware elsewhere, National Palace Museum and its birthplace back in Forbidden City?
I wonder if our folks in China will ever agreeable with what the Melbournians have been up to. Just my two cent worth of thought..
http://www.smh.com.au/news/house--home/go-ahead-make-my-deity/2006/12/21/1166290681434.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2