CSAEO

CENTRO STUDI D'ARTE ESTREMO-ORIENTALE (FAR EASTERN ART STUDY CENTRE) is a cultural association born in 1987, with the purpose of spreading and popularizing in our town (Bologna) and in Italy the rich artistic and cultural legacy of China, Japan, and Korea.

The chairman is Giovanni Peternolli, professor of East Asian Art at the University of Bologna.
The director is Alessandro Guidi, former teacher of East Asian Culture at Catholic University, Milano and Brescia.
From 2008, Manuela Moscatiello, dottore di ricerca e maître de conférences in History of Art, is also part of the team of CSAEO.
 
CSAEO owns works of art: among these, a collection of more than 500 Japanese woodblock prints, belonging to the administrator of CSAEO, Giuliano Bernati.
CSAEO can also boast the biggest Italian library concerning East Asian (particularly Japanese) art, with approximately 15,000 volumes.

CSAEO organizes exhibitions, lectures, special classes and seminars, events (concerts, tea ceremony, etc.) about various aspects of East Asian culture.