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Dunhuang murals come alive with the sound of music
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A special exhibition on “Music and Dance Scenes in Dunhuang Murals” is underway at Xuhui Art Museum through August. Visitors can see how the latest achievements in technology work wonders with the ancient murals.
The highlight of the exhibition is a seven-minute holographic movie, which for the first time brings a “concert” in Cave 25 at Gansu’s Yulin Grottoes alive.
With a tune played with pipa, sheng, xun and other traditional Chinese instruments by eight members of a band, the dancer with a waist drum who is from a mural painted in Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) is conjured up as a holographic figure in motion.
At the end of the exhibition, visitors are treated with an interesting animation played on walls which applies track mirror technology. It’s said to be the first time this technology has been used in the city’s art museums.
Between an array of ancient Chinese instruments, the “boy born in the lotus,” a figure also from Dunhuang murals, jumps from one to another trying to hide from three “ghosts.”
Tang Hao, Curator of the Xuhui Art Museum, called the exhibition the greatest challenge of the museum’s 13-year history.
Zuo Huankun, director of art and technology at Shanghai Zuo Zuo Space Art Design, leads the technological team behind the project.
He was on the team that created the famous moving Chinese painting “Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival” at the China Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
“It’s just a small show, but in a smaller space the audience feels closer to it,” he says.
“We also created a show that can tour, so it can be staged at communities and schools.”
To trace the evolution of ancient Chinese music, the museum also cooperated with the Dunhuang Academy on the exhibition to present about 20 mini replicas of ancient Chinese musical instruments which were used over a period of about 1,000 years.
Date: Through August 31 (closed on Mondays), 9am-5pm
Venue: Xuhui Art Museum
Address: 1413 Huaihai Rd M
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