Christian art with an Asian flavour
A new exhibition at the Asian Civilisations Museum focuses on religious artefacts made by artists and skilled craftsmen in Asia.
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AN exhibition of Christian art will likely make you think of European artefacts, but since the 13th century, many of the objects made for churches were actually created by skilled Asian craftsmen.
The Asian Civilisations Museum's (ACM) Christianity in Asia: Sacred Art and Visual Splendour exhibition showcases just that: it's the first time a museum has made a concerted effort to show only Christian art made in Asia. The exhibition took five years to plan as it involves more than 150 objects on loan from some 20 institutions in six countries.
"We specifically didn't include anything made in Europe," says Clement Onn, curator at the ACM and of the exhibition. "To our knowledge, there hasn't yet been a show that consolidates the global perspective of how Christianity came and spread in Asia from the 13th century onwards."
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