‘BALI: ART, RITUAL PERFORMANCE’

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

200 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102, Stati Uniti
(415) 581-3500

Fino all’11 settembre in mostra l’arte di Bali

The Asian Art museum in San Francisco is featuring a major show of art from Bali. An elaborately carved palace door and two carved deities are part of  the exhibition.

Tiger barong (barong macan), approx. 1900–1930 (top). Mas, Gianyar. Wood, pigments. National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherlands

The princess Rangkesari, approx. 1900–1930 (spikes). Wood and pigments.

Temple doors, perhaps 1700–1800. Tejakula, Buleleng, North Bali. Painted and gilded wood. Private collection

The widow Rangda, 1800–1900. Wood and pigments. Asian Art Museum, Gift of Thomas Murray in memory of his father Eugene T. Murray

Suspended offering shrine (plangkiran), approx. 1850–1900. Wood and pigments. Ubud, South Bali. Collection, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

Kalika. Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Mask of a refined woman, approx. 1935. Wood. Asian Art Museum, Vicki Baum Bali Collection; Gift of Wolfgang Lert and Ruth Clark Lert

Arjuna and Supraba, approx. 1935. Mas, South Bali. Perhaps by Ida Bagus Putu. Wood. Asian Art Museum, Vicki Baum Bali Collection; Gift of Wolfgang Lert and Ruth Clark Ler

Abimanyu, approx. 1930–1938. Hide, wood, pigment, plant fiber. American Museum of Natural History

Coin images of deities (Sri Sedana), approx. 1900–1930. Probably Sanur, South Bali. Copper alloy coins, cotton fabric, silk fabric, plant fiber, wood, skin, imitation gemstones, metallic thread, gold leaf, lacquer, paint. Fowler Museum at UCLA, The Katharane Mershon Collection of Indonesian Art

Palanquin ( pengongongan), approx. 1850–1899. Sawan, North Bali. Painted and gilded wood. Collection, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (the Netherlands

Offering-box in the form of a winged lion, approx. 1875–1900. Klungkung. Ivory, wood, pigments. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Two chairs, approx. 1875–1925. Klungkung. Gilded and painted wood. National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherlands

Rawana on his mount, wilmana, 1850–1900. North Bali. Wood and pigments. Asian Art Museum, Acquisition made possible by the Connoisseurs’ Council and the estate of K. Hart Smith

Ceremonial knife (wedung) with sheath, before 1864. Knife: iron, silver, buffalo horn. Sheath: wood and pigments. National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherland

Kris hilt depicting a demonic figure, perhaps 1700–1800. Ivory. Asian Art Museum, Acquisition made possible by William M. Brooks with additional funding from Betty and Bruce Alberts, Fred Levin and Nancy Livingston, Joan and M. Glenn Vinson Jr., Hok Pui and Sally Yu Leung, and an anonymous friend of the Asian Art Museum

Ear pendants (rumbing), approx. 1850–1900. Tabanan. Gold, precious stones. National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherlands

Young dancer from Bali, approx. 1900–1930. Unknown photographer. Photograph from glass negative. Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Cloth patterned with gold leaf (kain prada), approx. 1875–1925. Silk, gold leaf. Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Rangda mask, before 1929. Possibly by I Gusti Made Gde. Denpasar, Badung. Wood, pigments, parchment, rawhide, hair. Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Rangda, 1929. By K. T. Satake. Photograph from glass negative. Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Lion barong (barong singa), approx. 1900–1925(page 310). Wood, pigments, rawhide, horsehair. Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Bird mask, perhaps 1900–1940. Wood, leather, and pigments. Collection of W. E. Bouwman

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