Paravento "Facing Histories – An artistic study of the fusion between medieval Japanese art and contemporary art"

Since the beginning of the 90’s the research of Yumi Karasumaru has developed in parallel between pictorial image and performance, pursuing a strong cultural investigation on the relation between past and present of her native country, Japan. In this work she developed an in-depth research on the theme “Facing Histories”, on a folding screen which has become the support of an integration of medieval and contemporary Japanese art.