Lecture Recordings Lacquer Sympsosium

We are pleased to announce that the lectures of the 2022 lacquer symposium are now available online with English subtitles on our YouTube channel.

The speakers are:

Dave van Gompel - Japanese lacquer expert and restorer

               Layered Aesthetics – an introduction to the techniques of Japanese lacquer art

Jan Dees - lacquer expert and guest curator of the exhibition

               Japanese Lacquer 1890-1950 – From an eye for detail to a sense for impact

Menno Fitski - head of the department of Asian art, Rijksmuseum

               Temporality of Nature in Japanese Lacquer: Bellflowers, gentians, and water striders

Ching-Ling Wang - curator of Chinese art, Rijksmuseum

               Japanese Lacquerware in the Chinese Imperial Collection and Its Contexts