Exhibition at Gardiner Museum explores how cultural and economic exchanges affected decorative arts
The 21st century is the era of globalism; Canada is the pioneer of multiculturalism and Toronto is its epicentre. Or maybe not. At the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, the powerful message behind an exhibition of decorative arts from Renaissance Venice is that lively cultural and economic exchanges have swirled around the globe long before the advent of mass communication and rapid transportation.
Daphnes and Lauras by contemporary artist Lindsay Montgomery shows the technical process for creating the tin-glazed earthenware known as maiolica.This exhibition, entitled Renaissance Venice: Life and Luxury at the Crossroads, is built around the Gardiner’s own collection of maiolica, the tin-glazed earthenware made by the Italians using techniques imported from Islamic Spain.
That’s the backbone of this show; its many limbs, thanks to strategic loans from such neighbours as the Royal Ontario Museum and the Textile Museum of Canada, feature the other decorative arts that were imported to or produced in Venice. A 15th-century Ming Dynasty bowl, a gorgeous example of China’s distinctive porcelain, loaned by a private collector, reminds viewers of the original source of those pleasing blue-and-white palettes mimicked in the maiolica.
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