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Shunga. Arte ed Eros nel Giappone del periodo Edo

Shunga. Arte ed Eros nel Giappone del periodo Edo

On the 20th of October was inaugurated, and the 21st of October officially opened to the public, the exhibition “Shunga, Arte ed Eros in Giappone nel periodo Edo” hosted at Palazzo Reale, in Milan. Saturday the 21st of November Palazzo Reale has celebrated the one million visitors to the exhibitions by offering a free entrance to the public.


Shunga (春画) is a Japanese term for erotic art. Most shunga are a type of ukiyo-e, usually executed in woodblock print format. While rare, there are extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate the Ukiyo-e movement. Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga means picture of spring; "spring" is a common euphemism for sex. The ukiyo-e movement as a whole sought to express an idealisation of contemporary urban life. Following the aesthetics of everyday life, Edo period shunga sought to express the sexual mores of the chonin in the widest variety of forms possible, and therefore depicted heterosexual and homosexual, old and young alike, as well as a wide range of fetishes. In the Edo period it was enjoyed by rich and poor, men and women, and despite being out of favour with the shogunate, carried very little stigma. Almost all ukiyo-e artists made shunga at some point in their careers, and it did not detract from their prestige as artists. Classifying shunga as a kind of medieval pornography can be misleading in this respect.

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Steve McCurry 1980-2009 Photo Exhibition in Milan, Palazzo della Ragione

Steve McCurry 1980-2009 Photo Exhibition in Milan, Palazzo della Ragione

In its evocative frame, Palazzo della Ragione in Milan hosts, from the 11th of November 2009 to the 31st of January 2010, an exceptional collection of more than two hundreds snapshots showing faces, tragedies lights and landscapes from far countries, particularly the poor ones in the South and East of the world. Steve McCurry is a maestro of photojournalism and won twice the World Press Photo Awards.

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Come il barbiere di Stalin, che non si sentiva responsabile dei crimini del dittatore, ciascuno si sente pulito e pensa sinceramente di non aver nulla a che fare con misfatti e inadempienze che constata ogni giorno: eppure tutti "flirtano" con il male. Qualche volta lo servono. Pensionati e lavoratori, politici e cittadini, dipendenti pubblici e privati, lavoratori dipendenti e popolo delle partite Iva sono l'un contro l'altro armati, convinti che altri siano i responsabili. D'Anselmi invece se la prende con le personali responsabilità di ciascuno. Il messaggio finisce per essere tuttavia ottimistico e non catastrofista perché riconsegna a ciascuno la chiave della propria felicità. Puntando l'attenzione sul lavoro delle imprese e delle istituzioni l'autore svolge un'analisi puntuale dei diversi settori dell'economia e del sociale, crea un database sterminato di scempiaggini che si perpetrano e di cose buone che si fanno, e presenta così uno spaccato della nazione e l'agenda per una cultura dell'attuazione.

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