The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, a public cultural institution functioning under the authority of the Cluj County Council, invites you on Monday, November 20, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., to the opening of the exhibition “Celebrities of the Floating World”, an exhibition-event of Japanese stamps, which will take place at the institution’s headquarters - Reduta Palace, 21, Memorandum street.
During the opening, along with the speech of curator Dr. Alexandru Chituță - director of the Brukenthal National Museum, there will also be a guided tour of the exhibition, offered to the public by the collector George Șerban.
His Excellency Hiroshi Ueda, the Ambassador of Japan to Romania, will also be present at the event.
An opening in Cluj-Napoca, the valuable exhibition, with works of great refinement, which opens in Cluj-Napoca after a journey to the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest, the Brașov Art Museum and the National Art Museum in Timișoara, is made in collaboration with the Brukenthal National Museum, the “Şerban si Asociates” Law Society, and the Embassy of Japan to Romania. The more than 70 works come exclusively from the collection of lawyer George Șerban and they represent the artistic genre “Ukiyo-e” that reached its peak in the Meiji era, the works being created by the most important artists who created this painting genre.
The graphical techniques are presented here in their entirety. The link between image, imagination, written culture, tradition and documentation is captured by the fine lines that elegantly weave the way in which reality is captured and transmitted over time. The cultural period captured in the “Celebrities of the floating world” project is 1603-1868, known as the “Edo Period”, a period of great openness, artistic ampleness, economic freshness, social and political stability in the history of Japan, the selection of works referring to the great cultural themes of that period: history, kabuki theater, bijin-ga, poets, shunga and landscape.
The exhibition is not only a journey through the Japanese cultural space, it is not only a retrospective exhibition of the Japanese stamps, but it is above all an aesthetic and atmospheric incursion. In the exhibition, there can be admired wonderful landscapes as if taken from utopias, feminine beauty meets voluptuousness and color, we have the kabuki theater with the powerful and spectacular expression of the acting art and the fascinating history of the Land of the Rising Sun.
The exhibition will be open from November 20, 2023 to January 7, 2024, from Wednesday to Sunday, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., last entry at 5 p.m.