Fri, Oct 28
|Tai Modern
Opening Reception at Tai Modern
Round Heaven | Square Earth: Ancient Chinese Jade IMAGE: Left: Cong (Ts’ung) • Prismatic Cylinder • Late Neolithic Period, Qijia Culture, 2100-1600 BCE • 7 1/4 x 5 3/8" Right: Bi Disc • Late Neolithic Period. Qijia Culture, 2100-1600 BCE • Dia: 8 1/4"
Time & Location
Oct 28, 2022, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Tai Modern, 1601 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Round Heaven | Square Earth:
Ancient Chinese Jade
TAI Modern has been the world’s premier gallery for contemporary Japanese bamboo art for over 20 years. The gallery represents more than 40 bamboo artists, as well as select American artists working in a variety of media. This Fall opens with an exhibition of Chinese stone works.
This exhibition highlights two distinct types of ritual jade objects: Bi, (pronounced Bee), a thin disc with a hole in the center, and Cong, (Ts'ung), a cylindrical tube encased in a square prism. They clearly had great significance when they were created, but despite many theories, the purpose of Bi and Cong remain a mystery.
For over eighty centuries, the beauty of ancient jade has enchanted, delighted, and left us pondering. Why were such objects created so long ago? What did they mean to the people who created them?