Museum of East Asian Art

1st May – 29th August 2010

The Museum of East Asian of is pleased to announce that it will continue exhibiting highlights of the exhibition “Cutting Edge”.  Due to overwhelming public enthusiasm, selected highlights – including the Curator’s favourite piece – will be joined by other artefacts not previously exhibited, including traditional papercuts that are too delicate to be placed on permanent display. 

 These highlights will be on display until August 29^th 2010 and form a reinterpreted exhibition, titled “Cutting Edge: The Evolution of Untraditional Papercuts”.  Museum Curator, Michel Lee, explains “Moving the papercuts into our Franklin Tsu Gallery means that we have cases available in which we can display items that will emphasize the differences between these and traditional papercut designs and techniques”.  Alongside the new and old papercuts, the exhibition will include both traditional papercutting tools and those used by the Yellow C Group’s lead artist, Lo Jhy Yen, in his modern works. 

Interesting additions to this exhibition include three Song Dynasty (960 – 1279) bowls with decorations created using a papercuts.  Popular throughout the Song Dynasty at the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province, China, this technique involved using the papercuts like a stencil to decorate the bowls.  The patterns are removed before firing to create a relief papercut design.  The addition of these bowls explores another dimension of the tradition of papercut decoration. 

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