Naoshima, the island drunk art - Expats in Japan since 579 days
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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Naoshima, the island drunk art The term" an open air museum "seems to have been created for her.
It is Naoshima, a confetti of a few kilometers in circumference, lost in the inland sea between Shikoku, which is administratively attached, Honshu, and it is only separated by twenty-minute ferry. Eight hundred miles from Tokyo, nothing destined to become a center for contemporary art major. We should revisit this incredible ability patrons Japanese public or private, that has created the leading arts venues outside the major cities: it remembers the museum's outdoor Hakone , and we in a few days visiting the Ohama Art Museum in Kurashiki. A Naoshima, by grace of the publishing company Fukutake, now named Benesse (welfare) Corporation that came out of nowhere two museums and an art project combining contemporary heritage preservation and creation in a sharp sociological and preserved natural setting. It starts with the most audacious: the Chichu Art Museum, a concrete architecture of Tadao Ando fully integrated into a hill (one thinks of the fabulous Hotel Michel Bras in Laguiole). In its maze of dark corridors and geometric skylights and houses in all and for all eight works focused precisely on the light. It sometimes borders on pignolage with employees dressed in clinical white that are expected to remove their shoes and then the poor visitors before they can enjoy four of the famous "Water Lilies" by Claude Monet, or even one of three installations of James Turrell is simply a vertical opening to ... Heaven! I, who usually lets me easily carried away by the rain contemporary art, I prefer to book ... the main museum of the "Benesse House. Here, the architectural design of the less radical Tadao Ando wonders with its natural lighting and views over the sea, the masterpieces are displayed more simply and emerge even though the strength of emotion: a "dripping" of Pollock, a "Venus Blue" dYves Klein, a giant anthill drilled in a collection of flags of the world Yukinori Yanagi, mystical stone circles, driftwood or dirt Richard Long ... On the beach, a huge pumpkin yellow streaked with black dots of Yayoi Kusama. Superb. And the original is still to come: in the nearby fishing village, our sponsors have pushed the artistic adventure to ask people to participate in their most beautiful idea, "Art House Project." Are five or six traditional houses renovated, which now house modern facilities: the charming Japanese who you punched the ticket is none other than former occupant, a little later, his neighbor was involved in a works Tatsuo Miyajima tinkering in the screwdrivers pace dotted figures bright dipped in a basin in the center of the old floor of the house Kadoya (our favorite), also a statue of Liberty alabaster seems to leave the roof of the house Haisha (Shinro by Ohtake) Such an Alice too quickly bolting.
In fact, it is this: we went from the other side of the mirror this time sunny day in Wonderland contemporary. The ferry's return gives us the reverse transition, emerging smoothly this daydream.
Photo Chichu Museum
In fact, it is this: we went from the other side of the mirror this time sunny day in Wonderland contemporary. The ferry's return gives us the reverse transition, emerging smoothly this daydream.
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