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Opening of the Hong Kong Palace Museum|Restorer Yan’s Treasures of Life and the Louvre Museum

2022-05-02T16:19:07.462Z


Behind the dazzling array of exhibits, there are traces of time hidden. The Hong Kong Palace Museum is about to open, with nine major opening exhibitions leading


Behind the dazzling array of exhibits, there are traces of time hidden.

The Hong Kong Palace Museum is about to open, and the nine major opening exhibitions will be the first to gather more than 900 treasures loaned from the Palace Museum in Beijing, an unprecedented number.


Collection restoration directors Lv Zhichao and Liang Jiafang, conscious of their heavy responsibility, are meticulous about the exhibition hall environment and temperature control, etc., and they also made a special trip to order the imperial display cabinets of world-class museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) in New York and the Musée du Louvre in France. , to protect the treasures of the Forbidden City.

In their eyes, protecting cultural heritage is not only to preserve the ancient charm of cultural relics, but also to pass on history, "and to leave a legacy for our descendants and the future."



[Hong Kong Palace Museum Opening Series No. 3]


There are many kinds of tools for the restoration of cultural relics. Liang Jiafang (left), director of collection restoration, and Lu Zhichao introduced their work, including conducting "physical examinations" for cultural relics, like a cultural relics doctor.

(Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Palace Museum)

Lv Zhichao and Liang Jiafang have their own areas of focus, with the former in charge of paper and the latter in charge of utensils. They talked about the most unforgettable restoration experience ever.

Lv Zhichao, who is a restorer of Chinese paintings and calligraphy, worked for the Freer and Sackler Art Museums of the National Asian Art Museum in the United States, and participated in and independently restored a large number of Chinese paintings and calligraphy.

He recalled that he had cooperated with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to restore the giant Ming Dynasty silk "Portrait of Taoist Leibu Xin Tianjun". Due to the huge area, the team decided to move to the exhibition hall and set up a booth to repair it on the spot in front of the audience, forming a beautiful cultural relic landscape. , "Many viewers came over there to see how we were repairing and where we had reached. Some viewers even came every day for a week, just to see how far we were going."

This year, the Hong Kong Palace Museum opened its first pavilion at Fine Art Asia 2021 to introduce the culture of the Palace Museum to the public.

During the period, Lv Zhichao gave demonstrations with real people, introducing techniques and tools for restoring calligraphy and painting.

(Provided by Hong Kong Palace Museum)

Multiple tests reveal the "truth" of cultural relics

Liang Jiafang, who worked as a researcher in cultural relics protection in the United States and Shaanxi successively, once embodies the thrilling and thrilling "seeing is not necessarily believing".

She and her colleagues received colorful pottery from Persia, which was in very good condition by visual inspection, but after repeated inspections, the "truth" was invisible. The painted paintings added in the later period are also a piece of cultural relics spliced ​​by different pieces of utensils." The restoration team immediately started the restoration project to remove the surface painting on the pottery. "There are different information on it, and some of them were burned in the later period. Maybe the seller at that time thought Ask for more."

They finally reached a consensus with the curator and decided to show the audience its "true face". "Although it is no longer the cultural relic that it originally thought, it reflects the real situation of the cultural relics transaction in the 1930s." She recalled Shi still recalled, "I think it was a very good thing that the curators at that time were willing to use this cultural relic to educate the public."

If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. The brown brushes in the hands of Lu Zhichao (left), director of collection restoration, and Liang Jiafang are important tools for restoring cultural relics.

(Provided by Hong Kong Palace Museum)

Not Resisting the Length of Restoration: Recreating the Spirit of Ancient Craftsmen

The daily life of a cultural relic restorer is mostly in the back of the museum to dismantle and repair defects, and also pay attention to focus and perseverance. Liang Jiafang has tried it for a whole year at the longest, just to restore one cultural relic, "Because every step will be done under the microscope, The working area is very small, so the daily progress is very small, which is the reason for the slowness.” The process is repeated and tedious, but she enjoys it. She believes that the restoration of cultural relics reproduces the spirit of ancient craftsmen, and she is also excavating and recording stories. , "A lot will be discovered during the restoration process, such as its craftsmanship and materials used in the past. We record these things and tell the public, and those who are interested will join our industry."

Lv Zhichao believes that their work is a continuation of history. "What you can see now (cultural relics) has actually been restored by many restorers, maybe every 100 years, or 50 or 30 years." Passed down from generation to generation, "It is also a legacy for our descendants and for the future."

The Hong Kong Palace Museum is about to open in July.

(Photo by Lu Yiming)

The "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre Museum uses the same brand as a royal display case

The Hong Kong Palace Museum is about to open, and the two of them, as the "wilderness cattle" of the cultural relic restoration team, have prepared for the preliminary work many months ago, including finalizing the purchase list of restoration tools, setting up the exhibition hall environment, etc. The scope of work covers pest control, humidity and air quality monitoring And so on, the special exhibition cabinet from Milan, Italy has also been ordered for world-class museums, waiting for you.

The "Mona Lisa", the treasure of the Louvre Museum in France, is also the "star guest" of the brand.

▼The construction progress of the Hong Kong Palace Museum in April 2022▼


Over 900 treasures from the Forbidden City will be exhibited in Hong Kong

More than 900 treasures of the Palace Museum in Beijing will arrive in Hong Kong for display, and they must ensure that they are displayed in the best condition. They revealed that everything is ready, "If a professional, safe and stable environment can be provided to slow down the disease, this is actually better than restoration. The effect will be even greater.” The Hong Kong Palace Museum will gradually increase its own collection in the future, and the two will need to participate in the assessment of the cultural relic condition, or even carry out restoration work.

"We expect them to be placed in the hall safely and safely, and each of them is very exciting." Liang Jiafang has visited the Forbidden City in Beijing many times due to work in the past, but this time he has opened a new museum. Excited; Lu Zhichao said that he once participated in an exhibition about the Forbidden City in Beijing in the United States, and this time he will "re-encounter" some of the exhibits, which seems familiar.

▼The construction progress of the Hong Kong Palace Museum in November 2020▼


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