Bvlgari's Kaleidos exhibition arrives at Shanghai's Power Station of Art with more than 300 jewellery works and new Chinese artist commissions.
Jewellery is being presented as cultural history rather than simply an object of desire in Bvlgari's Shanghai edition of Kaleidos: Colors, Cultures and Crafts. The exhibition at the Power Station of Art gathers more than 300 colour-focused works, bringing the Italian house's visual language into conversation with Chinese cultural traditions.
A new interpretation for Shanghai
The exhibition is arranged around the science of colour, its symbolism and the effect of light, with Western theories set alongside the Chinese Five Elements. That structure encourages visitors to think about why a combination of stones carries meaning, not just how an object looks under gallery lights.
Art and architecture share the galleries
New commissions from Liang Manqi and Zhang Ding join a display developed with SANAA and Formafantasma. The installations give contemporary art and exhibition design an active role in how the jewellery is encountered.
A historic piece links two collecting traditions
An unusual 1973 sautoir combining coral, onyx, diamonds and carved jade appears among the exhibits, with Bvlgari identifying it as a first public showing. Loans from Italian and Chinese collectors make this an exhibition with a genuinely international collecting perspective rather than a straightforward brand retrospective.
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