Took a trip to visit an exhibition of Japanese paintings at the MAO ( Museum of Oriental Art ).
The exhibition “Kakemono. Five centuries of Japanese painting ", the first in Italy focused on this art form, presents 125 kakemono as well as painted fans and decorated lacquers belonging to the Claudio Perino Collection, an important collection of works acquired by the Piedmontese collector, one of the main lenders and patrons of the Oriental Art Museum of Turin.
The kakemono, set up in five thematic sections (flowers and birds, animals, figures, landscapes, plants and flowers) lead the visitor through a very rich world, in which meticulous and naturalistic representations, punctuated with subtle details, are flanked by extremely essential images and rarefied, where the form loses its contours, it progressively disintegrates to become a sign evoking powerful suggestions, in an extreme exercise of synthesis and refinement, almost an ante litteram abstractionism.
Among the kakemono exhibited at the MAO are some works by major Japanese artists, including Yamamoto Baiitsu, Tani Buncho, Kishi Ganku and Ogata Korin.
Location : MAO
