“TuorloBlue: between Visual Art and Taste” 
Tokyo | Japan

 

TuorloBlue is an artistic–gastronomic project conceived in Tokyo during the COVID-19 quarantine by Arch. Andrea Pompili and photographer Ryan Bruss. Bridging Italian and Japanese cultures, the project explores gastronomy as an artistic medium, in which each dish becomes a small architectural composition defined by form, color, and texture. Andrea Pompili acted as co-artist, curator, and catalog designer.

Presented during the VI Edition of Italian Cuisine Week, the exhibition was sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Tokyo and the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo, and took place in a building designed by Gae Aulenti. The glass façade was transformed into a luminous surface displaying five recipes as visual compositions.

TuorloBlue proposes a dialogue among art, architecture, and taste, in which ingredients are reinterpreted as images and cultural narratives.

Photo: Andrea Pompili with Ambassador Gianluigi Benedetti and Silvana De Maio, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo.