會議名稱
ICOM Kyoto 2019,ICFA&ICDAD Panel: "The Future of Tradition in the Arts, East and West"
關鍵詞
the Three Kingdoms, innovation and tradition, artistic interpretations, Chen Une
摘要(提要)
The Three Kingdoms Period is a chaotic era of warfare, and it is
an important period in history. People have expressed their different
perspectives on this era through different means such as poetry,
paintings, novels, plays, films, dramatic performances, and even video
games all tapped into the spirit of the times. These heroic deeds and
wisdom happened in the third century A.D. in Asia have been praised by
historians and artists of later generations over a thousand years. This
paper is a case study which discussed the making of a special exhibition
at the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum in Chiayi County
named as “NPM x Chen Uen / Timeless Legend: the Red Cliff and
Historic Figures of the Three Kingdoms” (January 25, 2019 to April 14,
2019).
This exhibition gathered precious collections of the National
Palace Museum and the original illustrations for the video game “Chen
Une’s Three Kingdoms” by Taiwanese cartoonist Chen Une to present
this heroic era. The biggest curatorial challenge for presenting this
exhibition was the numerous differences by all means between the
collections on display. We have from bronze mirrors and crossbow
parts from Han dynasty in second century, Song Dynasty Chinese
paintings to the post millennium sketches, drawings and mixed media
paintings by Chen Une.
This paper discusses the curatorial debates and conflicts during
assembling this exhibition in drafting the exhibition scenario to the
controversial visual representation between on display objects as well
as their different aesthetics. How did different people over 1800 years
use their creativities to present these timeless legends, and bring out
their imagination onto papers, ink sticks, jade, or other materials? We
continued to look back on this period and stories of the heroes who
passed away nearly two thousand years ago. Such history and figures
have crossed the ages, the regions, and becoming familiar role models
to the public, where history is not only seen as a past event, and leaving
its impact everywhere.