From November 19, 2022 to January 8, 2023 at the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice, a number of silk paintings by Fabio Truffa Fabio Truffa will be on display. The project Ahes of Thouhgts juxtaposes the artist's works with Hiroshige's prints, owned by the Museum, on display for the occasion.
Mounted on silk shantung dresses specially made by his brother Marco Truffa, Fabio's delicate paintings are dedicated to the artist's extraordinary colors Japanese and to the vivid narrative of the landscape.
Not slavish copying but reinterpretation, revisiting through his very personal experience, which he made of color, pasty and flaky, and the representation of atmospheric agents, in the variety of their manifestations, the expression of a great inner strength and boundless enthusiasm for life.
"Of this profound interpreter of the Japanese landscape," explains Fabio Truffa, "I appreciated the ability to represent the mutability of the seasons."
And it is precisely four seasons, inspired by four prints from the series Meisho Edo Hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), created by Hiroshige between 1856 and 1858, that populate the Museum's large hall, next to the bound volume with the original prints. These are juxtaposed with two outfits paying homage to woodcuts created by Hiroshige in 1858 for the Fuji Sanjū rokkei (Thirty-six Views of Fuji) series; to conclude the collection are added a depiction of the heroine Tomoe Gozen, inspired by a print by Yoshitoshi, and a portrait of Hiroshige on a male kimono.
"The exhibition of Truffa's works reveals a passionate artistic and human journey - explains director Marta Boscolo Marchi - and at the same time allows us to enhance the Museum's print collection in comparison with the reading of a contemporary artist."
Fabio Truffa is no stranger to such tributes to Japanese culture: as a passionate cinephile, in the past he has made sculptural creations for the centenary of Akira Kurosawa. For two years his Hiroshige-inspired creations have been chosen as prizes for the Asian film festival in Rome at the Farnese Cinema.
Fabio Truffa
Fabio Truffa is born in San Remo in 1960. He studied painting and sculpture with Sardinian artist Nicola Marotta and then continued his studies in Alghero, where he became passionate also to the study of tenor saxophone. His path as an instrumentalist developed thanks to an encounter with Steve Lacy in Sperlonga. Severe injuries to his eyes caused by an accident undermine his artistic path, but he manages to find a new, highly personal path in the fine arts. At the Farnese cinema in Rome, he organizes an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Akira Kurosawa, exhibits his sculptures in Milan, at the Fili tra le maree event, and in Paris at a group show. In 2018. he participated in the exhibition "Japonized. Tales of a fashionable journey" at the Santa Severa castle and in the same year at the Kimonomania kermesse, at the Institute of Italian Culture in Japan. In 2019, also at the castle of Santa Severa he participated in the exhibition "Angels and Demons." Together with his brother Marco runs a historic boutique in the center of Rome that hosts creations for a selected clientele and show business personalities. The clothes thus become the canvases of his personal narrative.
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