Japanese art - Finestre sull'Arte

In Turin, Italy's first exhibition dedicated to shinhanga, Japan's new woodcuts

From March 8 to June 30, 2024, Palazzo Barolo in Turin is hosting the exhibition Shinhanga. The New Wave of Japanese Prints, curated by Paola Scrolavezza, an expert in Japanese Culture and Literature and lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages...
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150 masterpieces of Japanese art between the 17th and 19th centuries by the great masters of the Edo period on display in Rome

From February 20 to June 23, 2024, the Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi is hosting the major exhibition Ukiyoe. The Floating World. Visions from Japan, curated by Rossella Menegazzo, promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura, Sovrintendenz...
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Turin, the Museum of Oriental Art brings the collection into dialogue with the works of Kazuko Miyamoto

A delicate kesa, the Buddhist ritual cloak, next to a minimal kimono made of knotted rope; the imposing structure of samurai armor next to videos of the performances Umbrella dance and In the garden; nineteenth-century wooden prints in dialogue with ...
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The Great Wave enters the collection of Palazzo Maffei in Verona along with other Japanese woodcuts

Entering the collection of Palazzo Maffei Casa Museo in Verona is an original 1831 woodcut of the Great Wave of Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai done in the ukiyo-e style. Hokusai's Great Wave is part of the collection of color woodcuts on paper entitl...
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An exhibition on Japanese landscapes, from Hokusai to Hiroshige, in Bagnacavallo

Bagnacavallo 's Museo Civ ico delle Cappuccine welcomes from September 23, 2023 to January 14, 2024 the exhibition ROADS AND STORIES. Landscapes from Hokusai to Hiroshige, curated by Davide Caroli, sponsored by the Municipality of Bagnacavallo and or...
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Where stars are born: Kazumasa Mizokami's exhibition in Massa

The halls of the Diocesan Museum in Massa are hosting an exhibition by Kazumasa Mizokami (Arita, 1958), one of the leading contemporary Japanese ceramicists, entitled Where Stars Are Born, scheduled from Saturday, July 1 (opening at 9 p.m. in the pre...
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Bolzano, Italy's first exhibition of Japanese artist Shimabuku at Museion

From May 6 to September 3, 2023 Museion in Bolzano presents the largest anthological exhibition of Japanese artist Shimabuku (Kobe, 1969) ever organized in Europe, and his first solo show in Italy. Shimabuku's cross-media art offers a light, curious...
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In Bologna, the exhibition on Japanese Yōkai. And you get your money back if you didn't like it

After the great success at the Villa Reale in Monza( newshere ), the exhibition Yōkai. Ancient Japanese Monster Prints comes to Bologna, in Palazzo Pallavicini, from April 7 to July 23, 2023. Conceived and produced by Vertigo Syndrome and curated ...
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