On the afternoon of January 19th, the special exhibition "Gods in the World- Images in the Temples and Tombs of Shanxi in the Middle Ages" opened at the Wu Culture Museum in Suzhou.
This special exhibition is cooperated by wu culture museum with Shanxi Museum, Yuncheng Museum, Shanxi Yongle Palace Mural Protection research institute, a total of more than 100 exhibits (sets), mainly based on the tang, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming long-term folk belief traditions and their material remains as a narrative framework, with tomb murals and brick carvings, temple murals and land and water paintings as the focus, leading the audience to experience the double feast of vision and knowledge.
Since the Middle Ages, with the active commodity economy and the rise of Ichijing culture, tombs and temples, as places to sustenance for the deceased and the living, have gradually formed a set of image art systems with rich connotations that are different from literati paintings, which can be called treasures of folk art.
The biggest highlight of this special exhibition is the relocation of the Hao Smith Golden Tomb of the Shanxi Museum to the exhibition hall as a whole. This representative tomb of the Jin Dynasty brick carving murals, the Hao Smith Golden Tomb, was exhibited for the first time in Suzhou, and it is also the first time that it is fully displayed to the public. Based on the relocation of existing tombs and the means of scientific and technological protection of cultural relics, the large-scale and immovable tombs are relocated in the form of division, and restored at the Wu Culture Museum, and the overall relocation of the Hao Smith Golden Tomb to the exhibition hall is a display of China's cultural relics protection scientific and technological achievements, which can be called an example of cultural relics protection and display utilization.
Compared with previous exhibitions, the time span of the exhibits in this exhibition is so large that it covers a wide range, and for the first time in Suzhou, the exhibition form of "above ground and underground murals" is combined to give the audience a relatively complete and comprehensive narrative. For the first time, it displays the facsimile of the largest Shanxi mural in a relatively complete system, and selects nearly 40 temple murals copied by the Shanxi Museum from 1974 to 1975, which basically covers the Tang and Song dynasties, Jin Yuanming periods, and represents the highest level of temple murals in various eras.
Technicians start with images, using video, VR, virtual reality technology and other multimedia means to highly and accurately restore the image and the spatial relationship between the image and the original building, the classic temple murals are fully reproduced in the exhibition hall through digital means, and the water and land scroll paintings and interstitial pictures are hung in the exhibition hall, with the help of the reengineering of the space, the time distance is eliminated, so that the audience can immerse themselves in the unique space between the ground and the ground, and feel the original state of the mural. The special exhibition will run until April 18.
Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Gu Qiuping
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