CAFx RAM Talk: Opening a Window to the World of Glass in Ancient China
15th August, 2018 SHMOG
Glass was given various beautiful and vivid names in Chinese ancient literature, which reflect how people in different dynasties understood and felt about it.
Meng Hui, a noted writer, and Wang Qin, a glass artist and lecturer in Shanghai University, introduced the history of glass in ancient China from different angles. They talked about how glass was gradually evolved in ancient China, what an interesting and indispensable role it played in our ancestors’ life and how it influences today’s design and art.
This talk is jointly organized by Rockbund Art Museum and Shanghai Museum of Glass Park. It is sponsored and supported by Chance Art Foundation.
Wang Qin
Wang Qin, born in Jingdezhen, China in 1978 and now living in Shanghai, is a teacher at the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University.He has participated in many art exhibitions at home and abroad, and some of his works are collected by individuals and institutions including Philadelphia Museum of Art (US), Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, (UK), Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Germany), Royal Museum of Scotland, Corning Museum of Glass (US), China Arts Museum, Shanghai Museum of Glass, and China Pavilion built for Expo 2010.
Meng Hui
Meng Hui is a freelance writer born in the 1960s in a Daur family. She once studied at the Department of Art History in Central Academy of Fine Art and worked for Beijing Art Museum, SDX Joint Publishing Company and the journal Reading. She wrote History of Women’s Clothing in China’s Central Plains Region, A Story Told on Ghost Day, The Hairstyle of Pan Jinlian, Stories about Incense, Women’s Life in Sixteen Poetic Images, Empresses’ Cosmetics, A Bite of the Nature, Golden Skin and Spring of Flowers and translated A Closer Look at Antiques, I Am Not the Murder and Wars and Cinema.
Yang Xin
Yang Xin is Manager of Research at Shanghai Museum of Glass and has worked there on academic research, exhibition curation and art projects since June 2014. He obtained a master’s degree at the Department of Cultural Heritage and Museology in Fudan University in 2014, specializing in research on theories and management of cultural heritage.
CAFx RAM Talk: Opening a Window to the World of Glass in Ancient China
15th August, 2018 SHMOG
Glass was given various beautiful and vivid names in Chinese ancient literature, which reflect how people in different dynasties understood and felt about it.
Meng Hui, a noted writer, and Wang Qin, a glass artist and lecturer in Shanghai University, introduced the history of glass in ancient China from different angles. They talked about how glass was gradually evolved in ancient China, what an interesting and indispensable role it played in our ancestors’ life and how it influences today’s design and art.
This talk is jointly organized by Rockbund Art Museum and Shanghai Museum of Glass Park. It is sponsored and supported by Chance Art Foundation.
Wang Qin
Wang Qin, born in Jingdezhen, China in 1978 and now living in Shanghai, is a teacher at the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University.He has participated in many art exhibitions at home and abroad, and some of his works are collected by individuals and institutions including Philadelphia Museum of Art (US), Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, (UK), Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Germany), Royal Museum of Scotland, Corning Museum of Glass (US), China Arts Museum, Shanghai Museum of Glass, and China Pavilion built for Expo 2010.
Meng Hui
Meng Hui is a freelance writer born in the 1960s in a Daur family. She once studied at the Department of Art History in Central Academy of Fine Art and worked for Beijing Art Museum, SDX Joint Publishing Company and the journal Reading. She wrote History of Women’s Clothing in China’s Central Plains Region, A Story Told on Ghost Day, The Hairstyle of Pan Jinlian, Stories about Incense, Women’s Life in Sixteen Poetic Images, Empresses’ Cosmetics, A Bite of the Nature, Golden Skin and Spring of Flowers and translated A Closer Look at Antiques, I Am Not the Murder and Wars and Cinema.
Yang Xin
Yang Xin is Manager of Research at Shanghai Museum of Glass and has worked there on academic research, exhibition curation and art projects since June 2014. He obtained a master’s degree at the Department of Cultural Heritage and Museology in Fudan University in 2014, specializing in research on theories and management of cultural heritage.