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"JAPAN： The Art of Change" |
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| "The Art of Change" is a project in which Genoa, designated the Cultural Capital of Europe for 2004, again engaged with Japanese culture after the success in joint projects with Japan during its term as Cultural Capital of Europe. Four-month exhibitions at the Doges' Palace and a range of cinematic, literary, musical, live performance, martial arts, tea ceremony, culinary and other programs are planned over the three-year period spanning 2005-07. The project looks at how Japanese culture has undergone successive changes in encounters and collisions with foreign cultures by absorbing each of them. The primary theme of this festival is social and cultural transformation by means of culture and the arts. The following four exhibitions was held this year. |
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| Date： | 14 Apr. - 21 Aug. 2005 |
| Venue： | Palazzo Ducale and Chiossone Museum |
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| Wrapped up in Myth ： Fabrics and Costumes from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century from the Montgomery Collection | |
| Indigo-dyed Japanese textiles of cotton, hemp, wisteria and many other fabrics from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries bear beautiful geometric designs, quite like paintings, in which falcons soar and carp leap from the water. This exhibition showed 150 traditional indigo-dyed fabrics and garments. These textiles that give off a distinctive luster surely made a dazzling impression on the people of Genoa of the traditional beauty of Japan. |
| Art Posters, 1955-2005 | |
| An exhibition of posters by 67 graphic designers of different generations. In the post-war years Japan had exhibited rapid growth in such arts as painting, architecture, design, graphics and music, and many cultural and artistic movements sprang up over the course of this development. The graphic arts achieved an accurate grasp of these social developments in their varied expression while retaining a strong sense of traditional Japanese aesthetics. This exhibition traceｄ the course of social, artistic and cultural developments in Japan from the post-war period to the present day through the 600 posters collected. |
| Hiroshima-Nagasaki ： Photographs of Memory | |
| Posters and photographs relate the horror of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the assistance of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, 60 years after those cities suffered their terrible fate. An installation was specially produced in memory of the tragedy. |
| "Masterpieces from the Chiossone Museum ： Ukiyoe Prints and Paintings" | |
| Eduardo Chiossone was engaged by the Meiji government of late-19th-century Japan as part of its modernization policy and spent the years 1875-98 in the country providing instruction in printing technology. The Chiossone Museum holds the large collection of Japanese art that he assembled during that period. This was a public showing of his collection of 150 ukiyoe prints vividly depicting Edo Period (1600-1868) folkways. |
Organized by |
： | Palazzo Ducale S.P.A. |
Co-organized by |
： | Comune di Genova, Museo d’Arte Orientale Edoardo Chiossone |
| Japanese partners | ： | Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, The Japan Peace Museum, Japan Foundation, JETRO |
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