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Covered Jar

Covered Jar

Japan, Arita, Edo Period (1603–1867), ca. 1670–1690
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Wine Flask

Wine Flask

Korea, Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897), 13th–14th c.
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REINSTALLATION MAK Permanent Collection ASIA: China – Japan – Korea, 2016

REINSTALLATION MAK Permanent Collection ASIA: China – Japan – Korea, 2016

In the front: Bodhisattva, China, Song dynasty (960–1279)
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Basin

Basin

China, Ming dynasty, Wanli period (1573–1619)
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Box

Box

Japan, Kyoto, Edo Period (1603–1867), ca. 1640
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MAK Permanent Collection ASIA: China – Japan – Korea, 2016

MAK Permanent Collection ASIA: China – Japan – Korea, 2016

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Three Pots

Three Pots

China, Tang Dynasty (618–907), 7th–8th c.
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MAK Permanent Collection ASIA: China – Japan – Korea, 2016

MAK Permanent Collection ASIA: China – Japan – Korea, 2016

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Globe

Globe

China, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), ca. 1800
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Two Pots

Two Pots

China, Hebei, Song Dynasty (960–1279)
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Dish

Dish

China, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), mid-14th c.
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Table top

Table top

Indo-Portuguese (Cochin), before 1595
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Wine Flask

Korea, Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897), 13th–14th c.

Stoneware with traces of crane and cloud motifs in gold painting on celadon glaze
Or 669 / 1892, formerly Trade Museum, donation Hermann Mandl, Vienna

This “moon flask” is a rare form and typical of Korea; it was fashioned by manually flattening a turned bottle. Vestiges of gold good-luck decoration—cranes and clouds—can be detected over the fine craquelure. Only few ceramic artefacts with a celadon glaze and added gold decoration have been preserved. We know from written sources, however, that such exceptional pieces were exclusively used at the royal court or sent as gifts to the Chinese imperial court. The gold decoration was painted onto the already glazed ceramic artefact and fired at a temperature of around 700 to 800° C.
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Permanent Collection ASIA

China – Japan – Korea
Artistic intervention: Tadashi Kawamata

The Asia Collection of the MAK is one of the important collections in Europe of art and applied arts from the Asian region. It has been compiled from public and private collections during a history lasting 150 years and offers a wide-ranging view of the art history of Asia.
The MAK Asia Collection is one of the foremost collections of Asian art and applied arts in Europe. Its precious works manifest not only their aesthetic qualities, but furthermore inform on the reciprocal influences of great civilizations on many areas of art, thought and everyday life.

The new installation of the MAK Permanent Collection Asia on the museum ground floor opens up new perspectives.
 “In Tadashi Kawamata the MAK has found the ideal artist for the newly conceived collection presentation. Ever since taking part in the Biennale in Venice in 1982, Tadashi Kawamata has been one of the leading contemporary artists in Asia and Europe. His works have an ephemeral character, thus are intensively related to place and time, subtly connecting the different cultures. His installation Yusuke Nakahara's Cosmology for the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan in 2012 is a reinterpretation of an art critic’s comprehensive library and inspired us to invite him to work with the MAK Asia Collection.” (Johannes Wieninger, Curator, Asia Collection)
 
Kawamata’s ideas for the MAK Collection are based in concept on permanent change and the play of light and shade. Two large, scaffold-like showcase blocks will house the exhibits from the collection, enabling diverse viewpoints based on this shared “narrative through objects”. Kawamata will “envelop and embrace” the collection with his installation. Although seemingly chaotic at first glance and placed in confrontation to the collection objects, the contrast is only superficial. Tadashi Kawamata places the artworks in a context that keeps things moving, whether the act of observation or the observers themselves, for he says: “My projects are never finished; it seems quite natural to me that something is never finished.”

From the outset it was envisaged that Kawamata’s modular constructed room composition from 2014 would be redesigned after roughly two years. In line with a revised spatial concept by Kawamata from 2016, the position of the vitrine modules had been altered, and numerous objects from the MAK Asia Collection had been exchanged in May 2016. Kawamata has “liberated” the artworks from their vitrines and opened up entirely new perspectives on the exhibits.

Silver for the MAK at the International Design & Communication Awards (Istanbul), 2015
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ASIA
China – Japan – Korea

Edited by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Johannes Wieninger, texts by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Johannes Wieninger, as well as an interview with Tadashi Kawamata, German/English, ca. 200 pages and appr. 100 color illustrations, Vienna / Munich–London–New York: MAK / Prestel Verlag, 2014. Available at the MAK Design Shop


Curator / Design

Curator Johannes Wieninger, Curator, Asia Collection
Artistic Concept and Design Tadashi Kawamata

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Special guided tours by advance booking: Gabriele Fabiankowitsch, Head, MAK Educational Programs
T +43 1 711 36-298, 
 

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Kawamata Arrangement
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MAK Collection

Asia Collection

Curator: Johannes Wieninger
The MAK Asia Collection consists of around 25,000 objects from China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam dating from between the Neolithic period and the present; these represent a wide range of artistic and artisan output from Asia and simultaneously provide insight into the centuries-long reciprocal relationship between Asia and Europe. Like other collections of its kind, the MAK Asia Collection is itself a work of Orientalism: all of the objects collected here were selected by Europeans and thus represent European tastes.
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