Artificial Japan – art talk – Lugano, WOPART, 21st of November 2021, 4 pm
Moira Luraschi, MUSEC researcher, talks with Luca Zuccala about hand-coloured Japanese photographs from the late 19th century from the Ceschin Pilone Collection, kept at MUSEC.…
Artificial Japan – lecture – Milan, MIA Photo Fair, 7th of October 2021, 4:30 pm
The talk area starts the cycle of cultural encounters at the MIA Photo Fair in Milan with a lecture by Moira Luraschi, MUSEC researcher, on Japanese photographs from the late 19th century in the Ceschin Pilone Collection.…
WOPART, Lugano, Centro Esposizioni, 18th-21st of November 2021
A fine selection of Japanese albumen photographs from the Ada Ceschin and Rosanna Pilone Foundation in Zurich, deposited at MUSEC in Lugano, are exhibited for the first time at WOPART.
Produced in Japan by European and local photographers between the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, these photographs, skilfully hand-painted, were the subject of a market aimed at foreigners visiting the Archipelago, a market created essentially to satisfy the exotic taste of travellers. The pictures, in fact, illustrate a world artfully recreated in the photographic studios of the time. Geisha, kendoka, sumo wrestlers, kabuki actors and samurai, to name but a few, presented Westerners with an ideal and aesthetic vision of Japan: a world with an ancient flavour that in reality was fast disappearing under the influence of modernisation and westernisation. The images on display propose a reality for the use and consumption of a Western audience and, at the same time, recreate the ‘little old world’ of traditional Japan, already gone at the time.…
Mia Photo Fair, Milan, Superstudio, 7th-10th of October 2021
A fine selection of Japanese albumen photographs from the Ada Ceschin and Rosanna Pilone Foundation in Zurich, deposited at MUSEC in Lugano, are exhibited for the first time at MIA Photo Fair.
Produced in Japan by European and local photographers between the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, these photographs, skilfully hand-painted, were the subject of a market aimed at foreigners visiting the Archipelago, a market created essentially to satisfy the exotic taste of travellers. The pictures, in fact, illustrate a world artfully recreated in the photographic studios of the time. Geisha, kendoka, sumo wrestlers, kabuki actors and samurai, to name but a few, presented Westerners with an ideal and aesthetic vision of Japan: a world with an ancient flavour that in reality was fast disappearing under the influence of modernisation and westernisation. The images on display propose a reality for the use and consumption of a Western audience and, at the same time, recreate the ‘little old world’ of traditional Japan, already gone at the time.…
Blooming Japan – art talk – Milan, 29 Arts in Progress Gallery, 23 April 2021, 5 pm
A conversation about the exhibition Blooming Japan on late 1800s Japanese photographies of the Ceschin Pilone Collection will take place at 29 Arts in Progress Gallery in Milan.
The art talk will be attended by Francesco Paolo Campione (Director of MUSEC – Museo delle Culture Lugano), in dialogue with Paolo Gerini (President of Ada Ceschin and Rosanna Pilone Foundation), and exhibition’s curator Moira Luraschi. The moderator will be Eugenio Calini, Gallery Director.…
Luraschi Moira, Ehagaki. Cartoline giapponesi della Collezione Ceschin Pilone. 1898-1960, catalogue of the temporary exhibition Souvenir du Japon. Postcards from the Ceschin Pilone Collection. 1898-1960 held at MUSEC, Lugano from the 1st March up to the 5th September 2021, Edizioni FCM (Antropunti/15), Lugano, April 2021. Pp. 292 with 146 colour illustrations.…
Milan, 29 Arts in Progress gallery, 9th of April – 22nd of May 2021
29 Arts in Progress gallery and the Museo delle Culture di Lugano (MUSEC) present a fine selection of photographies from the Ceschin Pilone Collection about Japanese flowers and gardens. The Western point of view about Japan was greatly influenced by these images, figuring out Japan as an always-blooming idillic country.
The exhibition also shows the Japanese perspective about flowers. In the local artistic tradition flowers become significant time-markers indicating the time flowing in a ciclic view of life linked to the concept of impermanence in Buddhism.…