Japanese craft artifacts on display at the Vincenzo Vela Museum

The Vincenzo Vela Museum presents the exhibition Japan. Art in the Everyday. Mingei Artifacts from the Jeffrey Montgomery Collection, open to the public from October 13, 2019 to March 8, 2020.

More than two hundred Japanese ceramic, wood, textile and lacquer works from the Ticino-based Jeffrey Montgomery Collection, one of the most important collections of Japanese handicrafts outside Japan, will be on display.

The collection assembled by Swiss Montgomery has been built up over more than 50 years of activity and research, and a selection of singular and highly prized works ranging from the Yayoi period (1st century B.C.) to the 20th century will be displayed at the exhibition.

The main aspects related to the theory of the Mingei movement, theorized by Yanagi Soetsu in the 1920s, will then be highlighted. Visitors will have the opportunity to discover unusual aspects of Japan, in which aesthetics and interpreted tradition influence daily life.

For info: www.museo-vela.ch

Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Japanese craft artifacts on display at the Vincenzo Vela Museum

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