MAO of Turin dedicates an exhibition to Japanese Kakemonos

In Turin, at the MAO Museum of Oriental Art, the exhibition Kakemono. Five Centuries of Japanese Painting. The Perino Collection, open to the public from March 27 to June 28, 2020.

Curated by Matthi Forrer, the exhibition is dedicated to the kakemono: a genre of painted work, widespread in Japan and throughout East Asia, which consists of a painted or calligraphed roll of precious fabric or paper that is hung during special occasions or is used as a decoration according to the seasons of the year.

They have a soft texture, unlike Western canvases or boards, and are designed for time-limited enjoyment-they are in fact works that participate in time and movement as they are displayed in the alcove of Japanese homes or left to swing for a few hours outside, perhaps in a garden.
Underlying the kakemono is an allusion to impermanence and mutation, reflecting a Japanese aesthetic and philosophical conception.

On display will be 125 kakemono, as well as painted fans and decorated lacquerware from the Claudio Perino Collection. Divided into five thematic sections (flowers and birds, animals, figures, landscapes, plants and vegetables), the kakemono will lead visitors into a world full of precise and naturalistic representations, alongside essential and rarefied images where form loses its contours.

The kakemono on display include works by leading Japanese artists such as Yamamoto Baiitsu, Tani Buncho, Kishi Ganku and Ogata Korin.

The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between MAO and MUSEC - Museo delle Culture di Lugano, as well as between the Fondazione Torino Musei and the Fondazione culture e musei di Lugano, where the exhibition will be shown again after the Turin stop.

For info: www.maotorino.it

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 10 euros, reduced 8 euros.

Image: Watanabe Seitei, Japanese Nightingale on a Flowering Pink Plum Branch (1910-19; ink and color painting on silk; 118.7 x 41.2 cm)

MAO of Turin dedicates an exhibition to Japanese Kakemonos

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