From 26th October Fondazione Prada presents “Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries” an exhibition curated by Nicholas Cullinan, art historian, curator and director of the National Portrati Gallery in London. Painting or sculpture? Art or furniture? The exhibition explores the histories and semantics of these objects by tracing trajectories of cross-pollination between East and West, hybridizations between different art forms and functions, collaborative relationships between designers and artists. The exhibition design created by SANAA, the renowned architectural firm founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, will gather more than seventy folding screens: valuable historical objects, loans from international museums and private collections and new commissions from more than fifteen international artists.
n° 94 - 02 August 2023