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26 Feb. 2020 / 12:57

An album of Japanese prints, launched at the National Art Museum

The most valuable Japanese Prints from the Edo and Meiji periods from the collection of the National Museum of Art of Moldova were gathered in an extraordinary album, made by the researcher Rossella Menegazzo. She has validated and commented on every piece of Japanese art from the patrimony of the institution from Chisinau, reports Moldova 1.

For the first time at a cultural event in the Republic of Moldova, the new Ambassador of Japan was impressed that a museum so far away holds such a valuable collection of Japanese art, based on which an extraordinary album was edited.

"It is very well done in terms of printing. The collection is very rich and has a special significance. Thus, more people from Moldova will know this traditional art from Japan," said Yoshihiro Katayama, Japan's ambassador to the Republic of Moldova.

His Excellency expressed the gratitude of Professor Menegazzo who researched the collection and appreciated the work of the team of museographers from Chisinau

"The Japanese stamp is a very important collection in the graphic arts section and I think having a large part of the collection within this album will be able to be investigated by a wider audience, by those interested in oriental art," said Tudor Zbârnea, director of the Art Museum.

"It is an album that presents in the Republic of Moldova a part of Japanese history and culture. It is a result of a beautiful collaboration of the Art Museum with the Embassy of Japan," said Andrei Chistol, Secretary of State.

The Japanese art collection from the patrimony of the museum brings together two hundred stamps made with wooden molds and signed by great masters. The most valuable were included in the Album.

"Both the structuring of the album and the structuring of the exhibition in these three sections, all made the information better understood by the general public," said Tamara Diaconescu, a museographer.

The themes of the works are very varied: portraits of beautiful women, kabuki theater actors, historical events, traditions and legends. We can all find them in the exhibition that will be held at the museum until March 15, but also in the Album published with the support of the Japanese Foundation.

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