HOKUSAI
Until 23 February 2025
Palazzo Blu in Pisa opens its spaces to the well-known Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. The exhibition presents more than 200 works, primarily from the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa and the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice, including the celebrated The Great Wave by the Kanagawa Coast. The project seeks to illustrate the Ukiyo-e (“pictures of the Floating World”) art movement through the work of its quintessential exponent, highlighting its historical and cultural value, but also its influence on the European art of the late nineteenth century. The exhibition also includes several works by Hokusai’s pupils – including his daughter Oi, who worked alongside him until his death – as well as a number of illustrated books, mangas and design manuals, surimono woodblock prints, tickets, invitations and advertisements decorated with elegance and sophistication, in which the artist enjoyed complete freedom of expression.

IMPRESSION, MORISOT
Until 23 February 2025
To mark the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, Palazzo Ducale in Genoa hosts the first Italian exhibition dedicated to Berthe Morisot, the first female Impressionist and the wife of Edouard Manet’s less famous brother Eugène. More than 80 works including oil paintings, watercolours, pastels and etchings trace the French artist’s career and development, including her suggestive views of the Ligurian Riviera. The exhibition also features a reconstruction of the salon-atelier designed by the artist herself, where she focused on depicting the female figure in the domestic sphere, but also in society. The undisputed star of the show is Berthe’s daughter, favourite model and pupil Julie Manet, who undertook to show the world her mother’s paintings after her death. There are also some fascinating sketches taken from Morisot’s personal notebooks, which reveal the remarkable work that went into every brushstroke.