"Yumi’s New School – ユミの新しい学校"
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We are happy to announce that on Friday, May 10, 2024, at 7 PM, at Palazzo Vizzani, headquarters of the Bologna-based association Alchemilla, marks the public opening of Yumi's New School - ユミの新しい学校, a solo exhibition by Yumi Karasumaru, curated by Roberto Pinto.
The project Yumi's New School - ユミの新しい学校 was tailored around the figure of the artist Yumi Karasumaru to unveil some of the most significant aspects of her work. In Yumi Karasumaru’s artistic journey, the relationship with her roots in Japan and her arrival in Italy are intertwined. This distance from her culture of origin has allowed her to revisit memories, personal and collective traumas, rituals and customs of the Land of the Rising Sun, without falling into the traps of the rhetoric or the celebratory tones, but rather with an inquisitive and knowledgeable perspective. In her works—both paintings and drawings, as well as performances—we find the need to create a dialogue with the audience through a mix of "History" and personal stories, between the collective, the public, and the private, the intimate.
With Yumi's New School - ユミの新しい学校, the artist aims to further narrow the distance with the audience by creating a shared experience through two distinct performances and by transforming a part of the exhibition space into her temporary studio where visitors are invited to work alongside her throughout the duration of the exhibition, sharing the creative and the execution processes.
The live performance that can be seen in the occasion of the opening on May 10, The Storyteller, Il narratore, Onoda’s Memorandum - The Last Samurai, focuses on the incredible experience of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who remained for nearly thirty years in the jungle of a remote island in the Philippines archipelago, believing that World War II had not ended.
The performance scheduled for May 22, The Double Pop Songs, features a selection of Japanese pop songs stripped of their music, which lyrics are projected onto the artist's body clad in a white kimono, as if it were a screen.
Performance:
May 10, at 9 PM
The Storyteller – Il narratore, Onoda’s Memorandum - The Last Samurai
May 22, at 8 PM and 9 PM (reservation required)
The Storyteller - the narrator, The Double Pop Songs
Talk Sessions:
May 16, at 6 PM, with Roberto Pinto
May 23, at 6 PM, with Uliana Zanetti
May 30, at 6 PM, with Igort
admission: free
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