The exhibition Reframing Silk: Giacomo Caneva’s Photographs of the 1859 Expedition to China (Obiettivo seta: La spedizione del 1859 in Cina nelle fotografie di Giacomo Caneva) opened on February 5, 2026, at the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice. The exhibition, which displays 32 original 1859 prints of landscapes and people in Calcutta, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Huzhou, has been promoted by the Department of Asian and North African Studies and the Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Veneto and was realized with the support of the European Union, the Confucius Institute at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the MaP (Marco Polo Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections).
The exhibition catalogue edited by Giulia Pra Floriani and Marta Boscolo Marchi is available in open access at: https://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/979-12-5742-012-3/