Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes

Featuring over 180 objects in various media, this exhibition is the first to study in depth the tradition of collecting ancient Chinese bronzes, offering a new understanding of these revered objects and their significance through time. The design of the exhibition took as central concept the ancestral practices of collecting and cataloguing, and featured all objects through their unique qualities: its materials, forms and silhouettes, details– guiding the viewer to appreciate its relationship to other similar vessels and the documentations of these, including antique catalogues, scrolls and rubbings.

Curated by Tao Wang
On view at The Art Institute of Chicago February 25th to May 13th, 2018

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Images courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago

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