Exhibition and lecture at Rovinj-Rovigno City Museum

Opening: 23. 11. 2024, at 6:00 p.m.

The exhibition will remain open until 30. 11. 2024.

Admission is free.

Lecture: 25.11. at 13:00 and 17:00, Rovinj City Museum-Rovigno

The lecture will talk about samurai depicted in the context of the time in which they lived, about their way of life and their mentality.

The exhibition is organized on the occasion of the return of samurai armor from restoration from the Croatian Conservation Institute. The complexity of the conservation and restoration work is evidenced by the fact that work has been carried out on the samurai since the beginning of 2020, and the metal, textile and leather parts of the object have been restored.

The samurai armor Tosei gusoku, from the legacy of the Hütterott family, was presented to the Rovinj audience for the last time in 2005, at the exhibition Trip to Japan 1884 - 1885 of the Hütterott spouses. This time it is exhibited in a new, restored edition and is presented as a gift to the citizens of Rovinj and their guests in this pre-holiday season.

Johann Georg Hütterott (Japanese consul in Trieste) and his wife Marie spent a year traveling through Japan from Nagasaki, through Osaka, Kobe, Nara and Kyoto to Nagoya, Yokohama and Nikko.

At the Dialog exhibition, as a counterpart to the Japanese samurai armor, there is a Samurai sculpture by Rovinj artist Aleksandar Garbin. Garbin saw the Hütterott samurai at the aforementioned exhibition in 2005, and was fascinated by what he saw, and reinterpreted it by recycling cardboard packaging. Japanese samurai armor, which by its very nature is a useful item (military armor) made of iron, silk, brocade, leather and copper, and weighs 25 kilograms, stands opposite a sculpture made of various cardboard boxes, wooden sticks, natron paper, cardboard, and duct tape. Although the manufacturing technique negates the weight of the original armor, at the same time it very successfully builds a monolithic visual appearance.