In 2015, “The Giuseppe Castiglione—Lang Shining New Media Art Exhibition,” opened in two locations:
(1) National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, from October 18th 2015
(2) Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy, from October 31, 2015.
The National Palace Museum (hereafter referred to as the NPM), in order to keep cultural art and artifacts apace our present age of information, digitization, democratization, and globalization, has brought his works to the digital world in a way that mingles the real with the virtual. The NPM envisions the "Giuseppe Castiglione--Lang Shining New Media Art Exhibition" as an exhibition most in tune with the current state of art museums as that which extends beyond the physical exhibition space. Originally, this new media art exhibition was designed as a multimedia companion to “Portrayals of a Brush Divine,” an exhibition of Castiglione’s paintings housed at the NPM in Taipei. However, this exhibition has since evolved into the role of cultural ambassador. Three hundred years after Castiglione’s coming to China, using digital media, the NPM is finally able to bring his work back to his homeland. The National Palace Museum worked with curators from the Basilica of Santa Croce to refashion, "Giuseppe Castiglione: Lang Shining New Media Art Exhibition" for European audiences by bringing Castiglione's art back to his home town in both original and modernized forms.
