Hiroshige: a poetics of the ephemeral.

In Narrations on the Ephemeral World, a work of 1661 by Sai Ryoi, it is read: "We only live for the moment in which we admire the splendor of the moonlight, the snow, the cherry blossom and the multicolored leaves of the maple (...) That is what is called ukiyo (flowing world, floating world)”.

In the 19th century, Utagawa Hiroshige is a maximum exponent of ukiyo-e (prints of the floating world). His admirable xylographic series The 53 stations of the Tokaido route and A hundred famous views of Edo, endow the daily landscapes of his time with poetry and transcend the borders of Japan to inspire the great artists of the West.

Silvia Zimmermann del Castillo, Executive International Director of MOCOB, is an Argentinean writer. She was the disciple and collaborator of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, with whom she studied the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic ancient literature. She has continued her studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the École Pratiques des Hautes Études in Paris. She has a degree in Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. She is an editorial writer for the daily La Nación, in the Opinion section and in the Cultural Supplement. In Japan, at the Mokichi Okada Museum of Art, she is charge of “Dialogues in Paradise”: an encounter face to face between personalities of culture, art and science of various countries from the East and West to exchange their ideas on issues related to. She is the international director of the Mokichi Okada Chair of Beauty, at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 1983, the Argentinian Women Dictionary has inserted her name in the list of women of the National history. She is distinguished as Peace Ambassador, from the Thousand Millenniums of Peace International Foundation.

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