Kakemono: an exhibition in Lugano presents 90 precious Japanese scrolls

From July 17, 2020, to Feb. 21, 2021, MUSEC | Museo delle Culture in Lugano, Switzerland, will host the temporary exhibition Kakemono, set up on the first and second floors of Villa Malpensata.

After the art of the 20th century, read through the lens of primitivist sculpture, and after the masterpieces of ethnic art from the peoples of Borneo, MUSEC, in its renovated Villa Malpensata venue, offers an in-depth look at oriental art, which has been one of the poles of the Museum’s research and development since 2005.

The exhibition, curated by Matthi Forrer, traces five centuries of Japanese figurative tradition between the 16th and 20th centuries through 90 kakemono, precious rolls of fabric or paper, painted or calligraphed, that are hung on walls during special occasions or are used as decoration according to the seasons of the year.

The kakemono are arranged along a thematic path that allows you to explore in depth the substance of the pictorial languages, from the unprecedented collection, collected with philological care by Turin-based physician Claudio Perino.

For all information you can visit MUSEC’s official website.

Pictured: Watanebe Seitei, Japanese Nightingale on a Flowering Pink Plum Branch (detail), 1910-1919. Ink and color painting on silk. Perino Collection

Kakemono: an exhibition in Lugano presents 90 precious Japanese scrolls

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