Building Houses: A Story with Bricks and Tiles
16 May 2013 - 17 November 2013
09:00 - 17:00
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Venue: Kaohsiung Museum of History (高雄市立历史博物馆)
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Clay is the most local element of all. It can be molded to display different local characteristics, complementing hydrology, geography, and other conditions, nurturing different industries and settlement cultures. In the agricultural era, people lived amid water and grass and developed settlements following earth and water. The clay was trampled underfoot, after undergoing adjustments with water and being quenched by fire, became solid brick, which was built into houses in which to take shelter from the elements.
This exhibition begins from the soil of Kaohsiung, discussing how people used the characteristics of soil to develop ceramics, and how ceramics have flourished, declined and changed. It recounts the development of the southern ceramic brick and tile industry from the Japanese Colonial Period to the early period after the Retrocession of Taiwan, creating a chain of memories by linking stories of people and settlements. We are confident that through this exhibition the public will come to know the production and the local culture accumulated in traditional bricks and tiles, and will reconsider the connection between modern people and the earth.
More info: http://khm.gov.tw/khm_eng/home01.aspx?ID=1
16 May 2013 - 17 November 2013
09:00 - 17:00
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Venue: Kaohsiung Museum of History (高雄市立历史博物馆)
Hits : 1055
Clay is the most local element of all. It can be molded to display different local characteristics, complementing hydrology, geography, and other conditions, nurturing different industries and settlement cultures. In the agricultural era, people lived amid water and grass and developed settlements following earth and water. The clay was trampled underfoot, after undergoing adjustments with water and being quenched by fire, became solid brick, which was built into houses in which to take shelter from the elements.
This exhibition begins from the soil of Kaohsiung, discussing how people used the characteristics of soil to develop ceramics, and how ceramics have flourished, declined and changed. It recounts the development of the southern ceramic brick and tile industry from the Japanese Colonial Period to the early period after the Retrocession of Taiwan, creating a chain of memories by linking stories of people and settlements. We are confident that through this exhibition the public will come to know the production and the local culture accumulated in traditional bricks and tiles, and will reconsider the connection between modern people and the earth.
More info: http://khm.gov.tw/khm_eng/home01.aspx?ID=1
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