The primary in a collection of 5 large-format tapestries (5 metres excessive!) created by la Cité internationale de la Tapisserie d’Aubusson in partnership with Studio Ghibli, this scene from Hayao Miyazaki‘s animated movie Princess Mononoke is at present being offered within the entrance of the Quai Branly Museum, not removed from our resorts!
The French love the movies of Hayao Miyazaki, and have plain artisanal abilities handed down from technology to technology. Each come collectively in these huge tapestries representing memorable scenes from Studio Ghibli movies.
The challenge – known as The Creativeness of Hayao Miyazaki as Aubusson Tapestries (L’imaginaire de Hayao Miyazaki en tapisserie d’Aubusson) – began on the finish of 2020, will end on the finish of 2023, and consists of turning 5 scenes from Ghibli movies into giant tapestries – one scene every from Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and two from Howl’s Shifting Fortress.
The primary tapestry – Ashitaka tending to his demonic wound, a scene from Princess Mononoke – was first revealed a yr in the past after having been reduce from its loom on the Cité internationale de la Tapisserie d’Aubusson and is now being proven in Paris for the primary time.
The tapestry presentation marks the launch of the Branly Museum’s summer time lineup of occasions. Known as Jardin d’Été au musée du quai Branly and operating from eighth July – twenty seventh August 2023, the season is impressed by Japan and contains workshops, visits, open air cinema, an Iranian percussion live performance, guided walks within the museum’s gardens, talks…
All issues thought-about, a Japanese fairy story recreated utilizing tapestry strategies courting again to the seventeenth and 18th century is an uncommon however excellent match. This historic type of creativity impressed by a up to date graphic work is one thing that needs to be seen up shut!
The marge-format tapestry of a scene from Princess Mononoke is on present on the entrance of the Quai Branly Museum (right here) till twenty seventh August 2023
Open day-after-day besides Mondays from 10.30am-7pm (10pm Thursdays)
Museum admission: 12€ / 9€ (however you’ll be able to see the tapestry free of charge)
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