{"id":2086436,"date":"2026-09-22T02:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T00:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/?p=2086436"},"modified":"2026-09-28T07:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:38:18","slug":"in-shanghai-bvlgari-color-diplomatic-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2026\/09\/22\/in-shanghai-bvlgari-color-diplomatic-language\/","title":{"rendered":"In Shanghai, Bvlgari Turns Colour Into a Diplomatic Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On 4 September 2026, at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, Bvlgari unveiled Kaleidos: Colors, Cultures and Crafts before an audience mixing the Maison’s leadership, figures from the art world and Italian and Chinese officials. More than a jewellery exhibition, an exercise in diplomacy through colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is rare for a high jewellery exhibition to bring together, on the same platform, an Italian consul general and a senior municipal official in charge of culture and tourism. Yet that was the scene on 4 September 2026 at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, on the occasion of the unveiling of Bvlgari Kaleidos: Colors, Cultures and Crafts. Around Laura Burdese, Bvlgari’s CEO, and Gislain Aucremanne, the Maison’s Heritage Director, stood Gong Yan, director and artistic director of the venue hosting the exhibition, as well as Tiziana D’Angelo, Consul General of Italy in Shanghai, and Jin Lei, Deputy Director General of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This institutional presence, both Italian and Chinese, is no mere protocol. It reflects what the exhibition itself sets out explicitly: colour as a shared grammar, capable of putting Bvlgari’s Roman heritage in dialogue with Chinese aesthetic traditions and contemporary artistic creation. During the press conference, speakers returned to the Maison’s singular chromatic vision, born of more than a century of work on colour, and to the way this Shanghai edition of Kaleidos resonates in particular with Chinese culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of the works on show, the exhibition does not settle for discourse alone: it brings together more than 300 chromatic pieces, among them High Jewellery creations, pieces selected from the Bvlgari Heritage Collection and works from prestigious private collections. Together they trace, in the Maison’s own account, the evolution of its aesthetic through the ages, building an immersive world in which colour, culture and craftsmanship answer one another rather than sit side by side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What sets this Shanghai stage apart from previous presentations of Kaleidos is precisely this East-West dialogue, claimed as a central subject rather than a mere backdrop. The press conference thus addressed in detail the Maison’s artistic vision, its curatorial narrative, and the interweaving of Eastern and Western aesthetics, stressing how this edition resonates with Chinese culture specifically, rather than with a generic international audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A jewellery exhibition that brings together a consul general, a senior municipal official and the director of a Chinese cultural institution is never merely a branding event. It also says something about the role that major Italian Maisons now play in China: that of cultural as much as commercial operators, whose exhibitions become sites of representation where the place of European craftsmanship within the Chinese museum landscape is, quietly, negotiated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On 4 September 2026, at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, Bvlgari unveiled Kaleidos: Colors, Cultures and Crafts before an audience mixing the Maison’s leadership, figures from the art world and Italian and Chinese officials. More than a jewellery exhibition, an exercise in diplomacy through colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":2077475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watches-and-jewelry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2077475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}