ThoseOriginal exhibition in Geneva –Multiple and unique “Chinese women”
The Baur in Geneva Foundation surfs the trend by taking an interest in the female figure in Chinese art. An invitation all in delicacy.
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Woman playing Zhongruan, a 19th century paper work that lights up on the artistic activities of the Chinese woman.
Baur Foundation, Museum of Far East Arts
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- The Baur in Geneva Foundation exhibits the multiple facets of Chinese women through millennial art.
- Delicate works tell the evolution of female roles in Chinese society.
- The exhibited pieces reveal the richness of Chinese artistic and cultural traditions.
They are they … silhouettes on a fine porcelain, as graceful as arabesques, they are the Chinese women, delicate beauties, virtuous figures which cross a history of millennial art and populate our imagination. We would almost see an ideal. And very quickly, a snapshot! May the beautiful idea of the Baur foundation in Geneva sweat immediately with the diversity of female figures, starting with the warrior, in an exhibition entitled “Chinese women” … quite simply.
There would be a lot to say about the place of women in this codified company. There would be just as much to philosophize on the small 2% of Chinese women who, according to the artprice platform, have pierced on the powerful market of contemporary Chinese art, which XU Lele, infiltrating the tradition of the print of a quirky humor. But the exhibition has chosen the intimate, contemplative relationship with the object, these silks, embroidery, bottles, snuffers, fans, ornaments and other statuettes which represent and tell them over time. And not that of discussing.
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In the basements of the Fondation Baur Dressed like a setting, the woman is a presence, a priestess, a wife, a goddess, a resistant, a courtesan. An artist, too. It slides from one beauty cannon to another, air or fulfilled in its generous forms in vogue in VIIIe century. It evolves, goes from domestic space to circles of power, rides on horseback, defends itself.
We even come across Mulanthe heroine who replaces her father at the front, out of a medieval collection and not a Disney script. Or the eighteenth poete century Gan Lirou, whose words slam as sentences in the felted silence of theaters. “I wonder why at my birth,” she writes, “I was intended to be a woman. The creator certainly has his reasons, but they are so obscure that no one understands them. ”
Chinese women and the happiness of detail
Words, there are others. “A woman who takes care of writing is really a crime. And this, even if she is content to recite poems on the moon or the wind. User the ink stone to write is not our business. Fold the needle by sewing, that is what I should grant merit! ” We read under the pen of Zhu Shuzhen, woman of letters of the 13the century.
Verses that seem to be resigned or going up in combat, they shed light on a situation, the condition of “Chinese women”. Lovers! Whether we find in number and in dispersed order on a splendid vase illustrating – or mocking? – Their effusions while a poet known for his beauty.
-This 17th century vase recounts the female excitement at the time of passing in the street of a poet also known for her beauty.
Baur Foundation, Museum of Far East Arts
No need for abundance in this kind of generalist journey, the happiness of the gaze, curiosity, wealth are in detail. We can even say here in her extreme finesse. You have to take the time of the engraved ornaments, to live the work all in beauty of embroidery or to go around the wedding bed in carved wood.
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Chinese art in all its states
If its format hides it well, the exhibition brews wide. From a pantheon of goddesses to whom to rely on fertility or to fight against the rashes to the “Chineseseries” that the old Europe of the time when it seems its exotic tables. But also the practice of bandaged feet to painters, the last chapter of “Chinese women”. With works bringing together poetry and drawings of Dong Xiaowan (1624-1651), a separate figure, courtesan then concubine of a scholar of seventeen years his elder.
Habit of female ceremony in silk satin embroidered with the Qing dynasty, late 19th – early 20th century.
Baur Foundation, Museum of Far East Arts,
Or from Ling Shuhua (1900-1990), happy daughter of a father who authorized him university studies and a marriage out of love. A freedom that she used to defend her Chinese sisters, by relaying their endurance and suffering in her writings. But which she does not use and does not abuse in her painted landscapes. The exhibition of the Baur Foundation shows several, including “a view of Lake Thoune after the rain”, taking its vaporous and poetic atmosphere from the Chinese landscape tradition. Delicacy, we said!
Geneva, Baur Foundation, until July 20, Tuesday to Sunday (2 p.m.-6 p.m.). fondation-baur.ch/fr
Florence Millioud joined the cultural section in 2011 by passion for people of culture, after having covered in 1994 local policy and economy. Art historian, she collaborates in the writing of exhibition catalogs and monographic works on artists.More info
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