Anonymous art project: in Venice Japanese Art Becomes a Shared Experience
A dinner, a Renaissance palace and the scent of oden mingling with the evening air. In Venice, anonymous art project inaugurated the exhibition Mika NINAGAWA with EiM: INTERSTICE by Japanese director and photographer Mika Ninagawa with a performative event that was much more than a vernissage: an immersive, intimate, collective experience. L PACK. gave shape to a shared ritual in which food becomes an artistic gesture. Oden, a simple dish from Japanese popular tradition, was served in the sixteenth-century courtyard of Palazzo Bollani as a meeting tool, triggering a suspended time, made of listening, attention and presence.
Among the many guests, in addition to the artist, there was also the stylist Alberta Ferretti, the director of Artissima Luigi Fassi, and a very large Japanese delegation composed, among others, of Jun Aoki, Hiroyuki Maki, Eriko Kimura, Hiroaki Miyata, Kyoko Morishita and Fuyumi Namioka. Born in 2023 by the will of the entrepreneur Hiroyuki Maki, anonymous art project is a philanthropic program that supports Japanese art as a tool for relationship and transformation. An alternative platform to the logic of profit, created to offer a free and shared space where art can return to being an authentic experience.
After the opening of LINES by KENGO KITO — curated by Masahiko Haito — at the National Archaeological Museum of Venice, the exhibition at Palazzo Bollani continues and intensifies the dialogue between artists, places and communities. Right in front of the Rio della Pietà, Ninagawa signs together with the artistic collective EiM (very poetic acronym for Eternity in a Moment) an immersive installation, curated by Eriko Kimura, which explores the concepts of border, transition and overlap. In short, more than an artistic experience, a silent alliance between Venice and Japan, where every gesture becomes form and every presence part of the work.
Photo: Camilla Vazzoler
Exhibition views: ©mika ninagawa – Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery
Text: Germano D’Acquisto
