Painted Ceramics: Contemporary Treasures by Jingdezhen’s National Masters from the Lamda Foundation

This catalogue is published to coincide with the UMAG exhibition Painted Ceramics: Contemporary Treasures by Jingdezhen’s National Masters from the Lamda Foundation. This exhibition introduces Jingdezhen as a manufacturing site for artefacts and it focuses on individual talents and the fame of a few master craftsmen, as well as their history and the uninterrupted production of unique high-quality porcelain objects of inherent beauty. The mastery and endurance of individual painters has left us an array of vessel shapes, compositions and iconographic subject matter that is, at times, both historic and contemporary. Displayed for the first time in public, these forty-four artworks by thirty-eight ceramicists represent the strength and ability of Jingdezhen’s artistic community through changing times. 此為配合香港大學美術博物館舉辦之《瓷藝丹青：琳達基金珍藏景德鎮 當代工藝大師之陶瓷瑰寶》展覽而出版的圖錄。是次展覽將景德鎮展示為一個手工藝品製造基地，並且專注於個人藝術才華、一些大師巨匠的聲譽，及其對獨一無二高質素瓷器的持續追求與歷史過往。這些個人畫家的精藝與堅韌，為我們提供了一大批器物造型、藝術作品，以及融合歷史與現代的圖像題材。是次展覽首次展出三十八位瓷藝家及其四十四件藝術品，皆代表了景德鎮藝術家團體在風雲變幻的時代中噴湧而出的藝術活力與能力。

HKUP Spring 2017