NUMEROUS EVENTS ENHANCE THE EXHIBITION. MEETINGS ARE INCLUDED WITH THE TICKET FOR THE CURRENT DAY'S EXHIBITION. All meetings are free to enter for those in possession of an exhibition ticket, valid for the current day. The public can also participate only in the desired collateral event, without purchasing the exhibition ticket, but only one dedicated to the single event, at a cost of € 5.00.
JAPAN THROUGH EMOTIONS AND FLAVOURS
MEETING WITH MICAELA GIAMBANCO
Japan experienced through my eyes in my first approach to the country. Through the novel, where fantasy and reality mingle, there are many emotions and hints of cuisine. We will talk about what one could expect on a trip in the 1990s and the difference with visiting it today having already seen it through social media.
We will talk about Japanese food according to the westernised view and how it differs from what one finds when visiting the country, and the influences that manga and anime have stimulated with great curiosity.
TRAVEL AND TOURISM IN MODERN JAPAN: IMAGES, NARRATIVES AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
MEETING WITH stefano romagnoli
In the Japan of the first decades of the twentieth century, travel and tourism became major social and cultural phenomena. The expansion of infrastructures and modernisation favoured both domestic tourism, with the rediscovery of famous traditional places, and foreign travel, witnessing a Japan increasingly projected onto the international stage. At the same time, tourism generated a vast production of cultural artefacts: shin-hanga and sōsaku-hanga prints, advertising posters and travel guides contributed to the construction and dissemination of idealised images of the Japanese landscape and travel experiences, as did the production of texts that renewed the consolidated genre of travel narratives, also in relation to the new scenarios opened up by colonial expansion.
Through the analysis of a series of visual and textual works, the lecture explores the significance of travel as an aesthetic, social and identity experience in early 20th century Japanese culture.
THE FIGURE OF THE WOMAN IN JAPANESE ART AND FASHION: FROM SHIN-HANGA TO NEW SUBCULTURES
MEETING WITH ilaria cavaliere
My talk explores the evolution of female representation in Japanese art and fashion, starting with the Shin-hanga, the first prints to portray a woman different from the traditional canons. From this turning point, we will see how the image of women has transformed over time, moving beyond the ideal of the ‘good wife and wise mother’ to embrace increasingly multifaceted, somewhat revolutionary identities.
This journey will take us as far as modern Japanese subcultures – such as Lolita, Bōsōzoku, Gyaru and others – in which femininity is expressed in new forms, often far removed from conventional models. A journey between art and fashion to understand how the revolution of the female imagination can be found even in the most unexpected places.
SHŌJO BUNKA - THE CULTURE OF GIRLS IN JAPAN
MEETING WITH ludovica morrone
During the Meiji era (1868-1912), Japan abandoned the feudal system and embarked on a process of modernisation that profoundly transformed society. Thanks to the reform of the school system in 1872, female education spread, influencing industry, fashion and publishing, and young Japanese women, dressed in modern clothes and immersed in social life, embodied the face of a Japan that opened up to the world and looked to the future.
This book recounts their role in the cultural change of an era, reflecting on how education, fashion and entertainment helped to redefine female identity in Japan in a path of gradual emancipation from the second half of the 19th century and through the wars to the 1970s.
JAPANESE CUISINE FROM THE 20TH CENTURY TO TODAY
LECTURE AND LIVE COOKING WITH SAMUELE NAZIONALE
The opening of Japan to the West opened up an immense range of stimuli to the Land of the Rising Sun, which the Japanese gradually selected and integrated into their daily lives.
Food and cooking have been radically transformed, with changes that have become increasingly consolidated since the very early years of the 20th century.
The great historical events of the last century have also continued to affect the lives of this eclectic people, developing a dynamic, ever-changing cuisine that blends the most ancient tradition and spirituality with a new world, racing towards tomorrow. The 20th century is the one that defined the canons of Japanese cuisine as we know it today, and in this event of cultural and gastronomic divulgation in the company of Sam of @pranzoakonoha, we will learn to read the complexity of this phenomenon in an exciting journey of history and flavours.