As part of the program for L’Aquila 2026, Italian Capital of Culture, the Giorgio de Marchis Bonanni d’Ocre Foundation presents the exhibition Shu Takahashi: A Japanese Artist in the Giorgio de Marchis Collection. A World Floating Between East and West, curated by Anna Imponente, former Section Director at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and Superintendent Emerita of the L’Aquila branch, in collaboration with Ari Takahashi.

The exhibition explores the cultural dialogue between Italy and Japan through the personal and intellectual bond that united Shu Takahashi —one of the most representative artists of the encounter between European avant-garde movements and Eastern tradition, who lived in Italy for many years—and Giorgio de Marchis, Superintendent of the National Gallery of Modern Art and, for fifteen years, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo. The result of this deep friendship was the gift of a series of works now preserved in the Foundation’s Collection, which forms the core of the exhibition, enriched by loans from major Italian and Japanese public and private collections.

Takahashi’s work spans painting and sculpture through his famous shaped canvases —canvases with curved edges and vibrant colors inspired by the Ukiyo-e tradition—in a universal language that blends Zen minimalism with the European avant-garde. The project is sponsored bythe Embassy of Japan in Italy andthe Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome (Japan Foundation).

FREE ADMISSION.