IBASHO is delighted to announce the exhibition 'Tea Ceremony and Flower Arrangement', a collaboration initiated by the Belgian artist Max Pinckers with work created by him and Werner Bischof during their travels to Japan.
The image of Japan, saturated by clichés of an impenetrable and technologically advanced island nation with very defined cultural subjects – such as bonsai, sumo, kimono, sushi, fugu fish, Yakuza, salarymen, video games and cosplay – developed with early post-war anthropological literature such as Ruth Benedict’s The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946), which was …