A Look to the East: Yamanote-sen

Yamanote-sen

Japan on display is a snapshot of the current situation, a country where wonder and contradiction collide and chase each other on a daily basis.
To tell the Yamanote-sen creates a scan of the most emblematic spaces in order to decipher the different souls then shown on display: the dense forest cementified Tokyo, built and manipulated nature of Zen gardens, the Tsukiji fish market which supplies the raw materials the sushi masters, the cherry blossoms without fruit, the hyper otaku and manual perfectionism sought by the artisan, the real and virtual places.
It investigates the connections between the spaces that are known for the first time and that are joined to a few centimeters away on the wall. Based on this method of reading the exhibition is structured around a series of compositions that alternate millenary rites and ephemeral spaces stored in the form of diptychs and triptychs. A succession of images without a thematic constraint but where new links created by diptychs use the irony, the similarity in behavior located in different places or similar atmospheres found between vegetable and architectural spaces masses.
The diptych not find contemplation in photography but raises every time a different narrative; in each of them the viewer can imagine and build their own assumptions without which there is already a default solution. A visual relativism where everything is the opposite of everything.
The term Yamanote-sen refers to the main Tokyo train line, the busiest in the world and runs in about an hour a loop of 34, 5 km through the main districts and carrying 4 million people a day. The train, on its way draws a strange circle in the imaginary Japanese symbolizes Buddha hand protects the heart of the city and literally Yamanote means precisely the hand of the mountain, sen line.
In a city without city limits, the term Yamanote-sen indicates a physical sign represented by the train and succession of landscapes that cross. Texts, images, illustrations and urban maps are navigational tools that allow you to extricate in the dense jumble of symbols and paradoxes.

Alice Covatta

edited by Elizabeth Da Lio and Margaret Stevanato
with the collaboration of the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice - Museums of the Veneto

Meeting:

- Sunday, October 2, 17:30

Project presentation
47 Ronin Manga
Bunraku from the movies, from kabuki to manga: the genesis of the project 47 Ronin Manga
and the exhibition of a selection of characters from the comic transposition of the play Chushingura

In collaboration with Veneziacomix
seminar room first floor / free entry