Prato Textile Museum dedicates an exhibition to kimonos

From April 29 to November 19, 2023, the Prato Textile Museum will host the exhibition Kimono - Reflections of Art between Japan and the West, organized by the Prato Textile Museum, with the collaboration of the Gorizia Museum of Fashion and Applied Arts. The exhibition obtained the patronage of the Embassy of Japan in Italy.

On display are fifty kimonos, including men’s and women’s, from the first half of the twentieth century from the exclusive Manavello private collection, which, together with woodcuts, prints, paintings and textiles from important collections and unpublished collections at the Museo del Tessuto, are intended to document the evolution of economic and cultural relations between Europe and Japan, which began in the mid-sixteenth century and over time came to contaminate the art and fashion sectors of both.

The exhibition itinerary opens with a first section that aims to document the European phenomenon of Japanism and, on the other hand, the Westernization of Japan by the Meiji reign.

The second section, preceded by an in-depth look at the complex traditional textile and decorative techniques, will display fifty kimonos from the precious and unique Manavello collection, grouped by subject and decoration, where the languages of traditional Japanese culture merge with those of European avant-garde art and textile design, some with important references to the European avant-garde: from Matisse to Klimt, from the Futurists to Kandinsky.

Finally, an original core of kimonos will emphasize subjects related to the theme of major technological innovations in European industry and the wartime period associated with World War II.

For info: https://www.museodeltessuto.it/

Hours: Tuesday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 10 euros, reduced 8 euros.

Image: Informal women’s sovrakimono (haori), Japan, 20th century, third decade. Lydia Manavello Collection. Photo by Luigi Vitale

Prato Textile Museum dedicates an exhibition to kimonos

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