Ethnology museum gives peak at mural

(VNS - 25-05-2007) - Fifty colourful ceramic artworks, the first images produced for the six-kilometre long Ha Noi Mosaic Mural along the Hong (Red) River, have gone on display at the Museum of Ethnology...

 

The Tan Ha Noi (New Ha Noi Arts) company set up to organise the project, is using local artists to design the work. The artists are sending their designs to Ha Noi’s Bat Trang ceramics village for firing in kilns.

The museum exhibition, which went on show last Saturday, displays mosaic panels and statues created at the first workshop set up to undertake the work.

According to the organisers, many of the designs are based on ancient wood carvings and designs found in ancient buildings.

The huge work is scheduled for completion by 2010, in time for the capital’s millennial anniversary celebration.

The present exhibition of ceramic designs runs until next Tuesday, May 29, at the museum in Nguyen Van Huyen Street.

Thuy was inspired to undertake the project after visiting ceramic masterpieces throughout Europe and the Middle East.

She said she was astonished to see mosaic work in Babylon with blue glaze as bright as it was when laid down more than 2500 years ago. 

Source: VNS

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