(17 Dec 2024)
HZ NETHERLANDS ASIAN BRONZE
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LENGTH: 5’36
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amsterdam, Netherlands – 25 September 2024
1. Mid of Asian bronze artworks
2. Tilt up of Uma figurine, Sukhothai, Thailand, 14th century bronze, h. 148 cm, Bangkok, National Museum
3. Wide of horse and groom, China, c. 2nd–3rd century bronze with painted decoration, horse: 118 × 29 × 90 cm; groom: 63 × 27 × 12 cm Cologne, Museum of East Asian Art, permanent loan of the Ludwig Foundation
4. Tilt down of the horse and groom
5. Wide of Shiva Nataraja figurine, Tamil Nadu, India, c. 12th century bronze, 153 × 114.5 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, on loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in the Netherlands (purchased 1935)
6. Wide of figurine depicting Yashoda nursing the infant Krishna, Tamil Nadu, India, early 12th century copper alloy, 44.5 × 30 × 27.6 cm, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (purchased by Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift in honour of Cynthia Hazen and Leon B. Polsky, 1982)
7. Close of Yashoda with the infant Krishna
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Menno Fitski, Head of the Asian Pavilion Rijksmuseum:
“We show that bronze connects Asia. You have Hinduism, Buddhism and along those lines bronze spreads, shapes spread. But each region has its own characteristics. So rather than to tell the story of bronze, we show how versatile it is, and how it connects Asia.”
9. Standing female figurine, Mohenjo Daro, Sindh province, Pakistan, c. 2500–1500 BCE Bronze, 13.4 × 4.7 cm, Karachi, National Museum of Pakistan
10. Close of the standing female from Mohenjo Daro
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Menno Fitski, Head of the Asian Pavilion Rijksmuseum:
“But the interesting thing is that we don’t exactly know what it is, and that is essential for ancient objects like that. We have a lot of ideas but we …Our knowledge is limited, but it speaks to us directly because if you look at the object, it’s also, it’s a standing young woman, but it’s also called the dancing girl, because the posture is so elegant. It’s as if she is doing ballet right, and it’s tiny. So, yes, it’s far away and we don’t know everything about it, but yet it speaks to us very directly. And that’s the case for many objects in this exhibition.“
12. Close of the standing female from Mohenjo Daro
13. Tilt up on buffalo sculpture, Daimabad, Maharashtra, India, c. 2000–1500 BCE bronze, 27.5 × 24.8 cm, New Delhi, National Museum; courtesy Archaeological Survey of India
14. Wide of ceremonial axe (yue), China, c. 13th century BCE bronze, 35 × 37.8 cm, Cologne, Museum of East Asian Art
15. Armband, northeast Thailand, c. 600–100 BCE bronze, 14.5 × 6.6 × 5.8 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, on loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in the Netherlands (purchased 1981)
16. Peacock sculpture, Ban Don Ta Phet, Kanchanaburi province, Thailand, c. 300 BCE–300 CE bronze, 7.2 × 4 cm, Bangkok, National Museum
17. Buddha seated under the hood of a seven-headed nāga figurine, Wat Wiang, Chaiya, Surat Thani province, Thailand, 12th–13th century. Bronze, 160 × 78.5 cm, Bangkok, National Museum
18. Close tilt down of the Buddha figurine
19. SOUNDBITE (English) William Southworth, Curator of Southeast Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum:
"It’s very rare to have objects of this status within exhibitions, even in Europe among the big galleries. Normally to see something of this quality, you have to go to Thailand itself and to the countries of origin. So, this this for me personally as a curator of Southeast Asia is, is a massively important image."
20. Close of the Buddha figurine
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