Eternal Seasons

Catalog of the homonymous exhibition at the D’Annunzio secret museum, Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera (BS), 10 July - 25 September 2016.

Ancient Japanese paravelians from the Edo period to the 1920s century of the Japanese paravelian gallery collection – Francesca Giraudi.

Works of: Sonia Costantini, Domenico D’Oora, Cesare Galluzzo, Asako Hishiki, Kaori Ebina, Elena Modrati, Ayako Nakamiya, Claudio Olivieri, Tetsuro Shimizu, Lee Fan, Valentino Vago, Arturo Vermi.

The project of this exhibition was born as a logical consequence of two other precedents who pushed the Japanese paravelian gallery – Nobili Gallery to propose, in compliance with his research related to Japanese culture, an exchange relationship, reciprocity and commonality between the poetic practices of contemporary Japanese artists, he dealt with since 2010 with a series of personals alternating with the exposure of his antiques collections, with European artists who share the same lyrical and philosophical inspection.

Themes of the culture of the country of the Rising Sun have been crossed by these dialogue projects and to underline an artistic experiential contiguity between the different protagonists called into question, both a shared sensitivity and, aware or not, traces a common feeling and a similar look moved in the approach of two only apparently distant cultural fronts. The points of contact between East and West are much more evident than it seems and, Despite a cultural specificity and very characterized and strong traditions, The exchange and comparison refers to suggestive food for thought and admired involvement.

The opportunity to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the relations between Japan and Italy, which falls just this year, has prompted to promote a project that did not cross the relationship between artists of this, but it opened a bridge with traditional Japanese art looking to wonderful and particular objects such as the ancient paravelians in which elements of reference and reference to art not only of the Japanese artists are observed, but also to the Italian ones.

The exhibition is configured as a journey through different stories and traditions and is the result of an experimental research that brings the ancient art of a country far to be confronted again and dialogue in the experience of different artists not only by origin, but also generationally distant, approaching new talents to consolidated masters and established by history, yet another testimony of how distances and boundaries of cultures and languages ​​are never so deep and separated.

[From the text of Matteo Galbiati and Raffaella Nobili]