“海市蜃楼——17至20世纪中国外销装饰艺术展”策展札记

Curatorial Notes on the Exhibition “Visioning China: Chinese Export Decoration Art in the 17th to the 20th Century”

2019年9月7日至12月8日,杭州工艺美术博物馆举办了"海市蜃楼—17至20世纪中国外销装饰艺术展"。展览以清代中西贸易中的装饰工艺品为展示对象,采用图像志与图像学的方法,从文化史的视角考察这段基于物质交流的文化交流。文章以展览叙事的构建为切入点,从"内容的叙事"与"空间的叙事"两个方面展开论述其策展思路。展览通过物的选择与编排还原"历史中的观看",以物的并置与串联连接"当下的观看",试图构建一个介于主观与客观世界之间的"第三空间"。在这个空间中,文化遗产的传续将通过一种由物质的客观所在唤起的精神性回应所实现。

From September 7 to December 8,2019,Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum held the exhibition"Visioning China:Chinese Export Decoration Art in the 17 th to the 20 th Century".The exhibition,taking decorative crafts from the Sino-Western trade in the Qing dynasty as the display object,adopted the methodologies of iconography and iconology to examine the cultural exchange based on material exchange in this period from the perspective of cultural history.Starting from the construction of exhibition narrative,this paper discusses the curatorial idea of the exhibition from two aspects:"content narrative"and"spatial narrative".Through the selection and arrangement of"things"to restore"viewing in history",the juxtaposition and serial connection of"things"to link"viewing at present",the exhibition tried to construct a"third space"between the subjective world and the objective world.In this space,the inheritance of cultural heritage could be realized through a spiritual response evoked by a material object.