Oriental art - Finestre sull'Arte

Contemporary Declinations, a program of artist residencies and new contemporary installations, returns to MAO Turin

On the occasion of Artissima 2025, the MAO Museum of Oriental Art in Turin presents from Nov. 1, 2025, the third edition of Contemporary Declinations, the program of artist residencies and site-specific commissions that invites contemporary artists t...
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Hiroshige along the Tōkaidō: MAO exhibits 19 prints from the famous series

The MAO - Museum of Oriental Art in Turin inaugurates a new exhibition dedicated to Japanese art and presents, until August 3, 2025, the first of three rotations from the series The 53 Stations of Tōkaidō by Utagawa Hiroshige (Edo, 1797 - 1858). At...
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MAO of Turin showcases 50 haori and juban: men's kimonos of the 20th century

Early twentieth-century Japan takes shape and color through clothes that are not just examples of precious workmanship, but true cultural documents. This is what Haori proposes . Men's Suits of the Early Twentieth Century Narrate Japan, the exhibitio...
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At the MAO in Turin, an exhibition tells the story of Japan through men's clothing of the early 20th century

MAO Museum of Oriental Art in Turin presents from April 12 to September 7, 2025 the exhibition Haori. Men's clothes of the early 20th century narrate Japan. The exhibition project has been realized thanks to the curatorial consultancy of Silvia Vesco...
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Norman Jones donation on display at Bologna's Museo Civico Medievale

From Nov. 23, 2024 to May 5, 2025, in the Lapidarium of the Museo Civico Medievale in Bologna, will be on display a selection of 47 pieces, including Indo-Islamic Murshidaba miniatures, Hindu-inspired statues and objects, Japanese woodcuts, netsuke, ...
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In Rome, Napoleonic Museum dedicates exhibition to collecting oriental art

The Napoleonic Museum in Rome is hosting from March 15 to September 8, 2024 an exhibition dedicated to collecting Oriental and Japanese art: Giuseppe Primoli and the Fascination of the Orient, in conjunction with the exhibition Ukiyoe. The Floating W...
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Venice, Suzhou clothing fabrics on display at Palazzo Mocenigo

With the exhibition The Axis of Time. Silk Clothing Fabrics from Suzhou at the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo officially opened the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo's death. The exhibition, which will remain open until Feb. 29, is pa...
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Milan, an exhibition dedicated to contemporary Chinese art at the Fabbrica del Vapore

Until recently China seemed a remote, distant, mysterious place. Revealing itself it has suddenly upset all the hitherto established hierarchies, both historically, socially and economically and, of course, also artistically and culturally. Suddenly ...
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