The “Pearls” convention organised by Qatar Museums started yesterday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as an element of the Qatar Brazil 2014 12 months of community.
The convention, becoming used during the Museu de Arte Brasileira (Brazilian Museum of Art), works until September 28
On screen are over 200 bits of jewelry and works of art exhibiting the extraordinary range of color and form of normal and cultured pearls.
The event will analyze how pearls have actually already been used over hundreds of years both in the East as well as the western because a sign of standing and wide range, how preferences differ in various countries since well because the altering styles of
jewelry with pearls.
Safiya Saif al-Hajari, manager of Strategic Cultural Relations at Qatar Museums, stated: “The concept behind organising the ‘Pearls’ exhibition is to spend tribute to all of our forefathers whom made a lot of sacrifices and depended in the pearls trade to maintain their particular livelihood.
“Through organising this event, Qatar Museums intends to improve understanding among the list of Brazilian neighborhood about the relevance of pearls in Qatari background. We look ahead to this interesting event, which highlights a typical historic aspect for both Qatari and
Brazilian individuals.”
The event supported by Qatar Petroleum Overseas and Shell as platinum sponsors would be a highlight for the Qatar Brazil 2014 12 months of community, which intends to create brand-new partnerships in knowledge, recreations, innovative sectors and research, while advertising an understanding and admiration of each other’s tradition, accomplishments and history.
The event starts with an understanding of the normal reputation for pearls together with pearl fishing trade from over the Arabian Gulf to European countries and Asia, since Antiquity.
A collection of uncommon pearls and pearl-bearing mollusks will show exactly how Gulf pearls have actually always been a few of the many desirable and valuable into the globe. It will likewise expose the usually harmful functioning techniques of pearl scuba divers and show the trading techniques of pearl merchants within the Gulf, collectively with types of gear necessary for evaluating and valuing pearls.
The 2nd an element of the event will check out the representation of pearls in jewelry and highlight the way the design altered through history, maintaining the exhibition up to time with modern work by developers practising nowadays.
The convention will additionally proceed with the creation of this cultured pearl as well as its manufacturing on a commercial level started by Kokichi Mikimoto in Japan. He succeeded in building the essential technology to determine methods of generating pearls affordable for every girl to put on.
The jewelry and works of art are going to be attracted through the Qatar Museums choices alongside items from Mikimoto & Co, Yoko London and Alfardan, Qatar.
