From August 5, 2020, the National Art Museum of Yakutia will host the At the Crossroads of Continents exhibition, which will present the works of outstanding masters who worked in the 18th – early 21st centuries and combined the artistic experience of the East in their art.
The vast Asian continent has spawned many forms of art. Each country has its own canons of beauty, which in different historical eras can be diametrically opposed. Cultures “collided” in one exhibition space: Japan – Buryatia, China – Yakutia, Mongolia – Chukotka. We observe the combination of an object and literature, calligraphy and painting in order to create a holistic artistic and poetic image inherent in the art of the Far East. Mythological creatures, religious objects, animals of the eastern horoscope, literary heroes, folklore motives …
In the exhibition you can see a masterpiece of Chinese art, the “devil ball” made of ivory. This incredible creation consists of hollow fishnet balls nested inside each other, which can rotate independently of each other. Each layer of the ball in the ball is decorated with the finest ornament. In China, there was a scary legend according to which every master who learned the secrets of making “devil’s balls” was executed so that no one could find out about the secrets of the production of such things.
The symbolism of the world outlook is the basis of the traditional aesthetics of Asian art. The exhibition will lead on a unique journey into the philosophy and religion of the peoples of the Far East. You will be able to familiarize yourself with works of different time, materials, purpose and origin. The history of various peoples represented at the exhibition reveals their numerous contacts – cultures influence each other, touch, imitate, borrow certain forms from each other. The art of Yakutia occupies a special place at the exhibition; it is, as it were, under the tutelage of more ancient civilizational impressions, but it is a distinctive phenomenon of modern Russia.
The exhibition will be open to visitors from August 5, 2020 at the National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) at the address: Yakutsk, Kirov ul., building 9, 3rd floor. For inquiries by phone: +7 (4112) 33-52-79.
Source: First Republican Information and Analytical Portal SakhaNews