From Friday 21 June to Thursday 5 September 2024, the exhibition dedicated to Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) and Sekiya Masaaki (1942-2002), organised in 2023 by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche at Ca’ Scarpa in Treviso, moves to Japan, to Tōkyō, at the headquarters of the Italian Cultural Institute.
Realised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Tōkyō, with the scientific support of the Benetton Foundation, and curated by J.K. Mauro Pierconti, the exhibition, entitled Carlo Scarpa / Sekiya Masaaki. The space of gardens between design and photography, is presented with a renewed project that carves out the theme of the space of gardens within Carlo Scarpa’s variegated architectural oeuvre, taking into consideration two works created by him and portrayed by the photographer Sekiya Masaaki: the garden of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice and the complex of the Brion Tomb in S. Vito di Altivole.
The exhibition examines the design of outdoor spaces through the cases of the garden of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia and the Brion Tomb, both portrayed by Sekiya Masaaki. A selection of enlarged print drawings for the Brion complex will further investigate the theme of nature; moreover, shots taken by Scarpa himself during his 1969 trip to some of Kyōto’s famous gardens will be exhibited for the first time, such as the Imperial Villa of Katsura, with its tea houses scattered around the building and the artificial lake and connected by differently arranged paths; or the mysterious Ryōan-ji, a Zen garden with fifteen stones placed inside a rectangle of sand, or the garden of mosses or Saihō-ji.
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