After visiting Tokyo, São Paulo, Shanghai, Montreal and Milan, the original immersive art experience, Spirit of Japan, is coming to Spain for the first time to offer a journey through the most well-known works of the great masters of Japanese prints, , known for the Ukiyo-e artistic movement. This exhibition can be seen at the Nomad Immersive Museum from 24 July to 27 October.
Visitors can immerse themselves in the Ukiyo-e artistic movement, contemplating the works of renowned masters like Hokusai, as well as other lesser-known artists such as Kuniyoshi, Utamaro and Kunisada. This exhibition showcases the movement in an unprecedented way, enhanced by new technologies. Featuring 400 works from twenty museums worldwide, it offers a sensory experience enriched with evocative atmospheres and immersive sound design.
Ukiyo-e is a kind of artistic language that caused a major impact on western art, influencing not only impressionists and avant-garde artists, like Van Gogh, Gauguin and Bonnard, but also decorative arts, music and dance. This exhibition includes a carefully created staging in order to capture the mysterious Japan, evoked by the images of more than 400 works by the most important Ukiyo-e masters: Katsushika Hokusai, Kitagawa Utamaro, Utgawa Kuniyoshi, Utagawa Hiroshige, Yoshida Hiroschi, Kawase Hasui, Totoya Hokkei, Kiitsu Suzuki, Ando Hiroshige, Musaaki Shikibu and Tsuchiya Koitsu.
The narrative of Japan begins through the nature represented in the engravings of the great masters: the landscapes and the ephemeral beauty of the cherry blossom are transformed into a magical forest inhabited by the ‘Yokai’, spirits of Japanese folklore. Then, along comes the sea where Hokusai's iconic great wave invades everything, accompanied by La Mer by Claude Debussy. There is also room for charming geishas, dressed in elegant and colourful kimonos, and at dusk, paper lanterns cast their shadows, illuminating the eyes, mouths and hands of the Kabuki actors. Then the warrior dance of the samurai invades the space before being swept away by the wind, among the lanterns floating in the night sky. All of this passing through the frenetic rhythms of Japanese drums to the sound of contemporary Japanese composers, such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hiroshi Yoshimura and Takashi Yoshimatsu.
