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Opening Celebration for Vishnu's Cosmic Ocean

Cambodia’s most important bronze artwork arrives in the Bay Area with a special ceremony.

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Join us in celebrating the opening of Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Southeast Asia’s largest ancient bronze in San Francisco.

Witness a traditional Cambodian Buddhist temple water blessing as the Asian Art Museum welcomes the monumental, nearly twenty-foot-long statue before it returns to Cambodia.

The blessed water offers wishes for protection, good fortune, and well-being to the historical artwork as well as all ceremony attendees. The experience will be followed by a Khmer dance performance.

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Top image: West Mebon Reclining Vishnu (detail), National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia © National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh / photo Thierry Ollivier for the Guimet Museum.

Organizers & Supporters

Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean is organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in collaboration with the Guimet-National Museum of Asian Arts, France with exceptional loans from the National Museum of Cambodia granted by the Royal Government.

Presenting support is provided by Lyna Lam, A Khmer Buddhist Foundation.

Generous support is provided by The Bernard Osher Foundation, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Lilly Endowment Inc., and the Society for Asian Art.

Additional support is provided by the Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India (SACHI) and Marsha Vargas Handley.

Sustained support generously provided by the Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Endowment Fund for Exhibitions. 

The conservation of the Reclining Vishnu of West Mebon was made possible thanks to the financial support of the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage – ALIPH – and to the scientific collaboration of the Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient (EFEO), the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), and the Guimet-National Museum of Asian Arts, France.

     

 

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