contessanally: Venice: Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo – Katagami e Katazome + Venezia e l’Oriente

Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo

Katagami and Katazome

Symblology and Decoration of Textiles in Japan

At Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, until April 22, Katagami and Katazome - Symblology and Decoration of Textiles in Japan, until April 22, is designed and curated by Franco Passarello. The exhibition reveals the cultural history and ethnological aspects of the Japanese craftsman connected to fashion textiles.

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Katagami and Katazome

Symblology and Decoration of Textiles in Japan

The many examples of weaving, printing and dyeing provide abundant evidence of the long tradition of the high standard of clothes worn in Japan. Before the 20th Century Japan was a nation of weavers and artisans creating superb textiles with natural fibers, silks and cottons on hand-looms and dyed in backyard pots.

curator Franco Passarello

Kajiboari - Samurai coat - Edo era

Chiara Squarcina and Tonci Foscari

Woodblock Print Book – 6^th year Bunka

Edo era 1806

Katagami

Katagami and Katazome

Symblology and Decoration of Textiles in Japan

The exhibition highlights the tasteful restraint, elegance of line and attention to texture that have come to be associated with Japanese Art, found nowhere else in the world. Dress-cloth printed with the katazome technique are shown together with the katagami stencils used to dye textiles. The exhibit material span between 1800-1910 - Edo and Meiji eras. On loan from the collections of Franco Passarello, Ishimi Osugi and Nancy Stetson Martin.

Kataginu – formal jacket

silk dyed Katazome - Meiji 1900 – katagrami printed design

Design Sample Book - 12^th year Meiji – 1880

Han-jubani –printed Katazome – Edo era

Han-jubani - printed Katazome – Taisho-Showa era

Hanori – printed Katazome – Maiji-Taisho era

Maria Teresa Granata

Katagami - Stencils

Katazome – dyeing technique on fabric

Photograph courtesy MUVE

Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo

Venice and the Orient

Collection Fondazione di Venezia

Thanks to the rich collection of fabrics and Oriental clothes owned by the Fondazione di Venezia belonging to the archives of Palazzo Mocenigo Museum of Textiles and Costumes, until August 26, the exhibition focuses on the theme Venice and the Orient and is curated by Chiara Squarcina. A selection of twenty representative examples of the precious collection of over four hundred artifacts once belonging to the maternal family of Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (which also includes western, oriental clothes and fabrics and vestments) are displayed in the majestic rooms of the palazzo.

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curator Chiara Squarcina

Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo

Venice and the Orient

The oriental vetements were assembled in Spain by the parents of the painter Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, in 1875 the collection was put up for sale in Paris after the death of Mariano’s father. It was later recomplied by his mother Cecilia and continued by the artist himself. It is a nucleus of particular interest because it was a constant source of inspiration for Fortuny, in his activities of printing on cloth and fashion design and also, because it allows to visually reconstruct that ancient - and never dormant - link between Venice and the Orient.