{"id":23920,"date":"2015-11-13T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=23920"},"modified":"2015-11-09T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:29:53","slug":"art-place-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/13\/art-place-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"art place japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/artplacejapan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/artplacejapan.jpg\" alt=\"artplacejapan\" width=\"584\" height=\"5893\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine a place like this? Well you don&#8217;t have to, because it&#8217;s real:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Every three years, three hundred square miles of land in northwestern Japan are transformed into the most ambitious and largest-scale art installation in the world: the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field. One hundred sixty of the world&#8217;s best-known landscape artists, sculptors, and architects create artworks in two hundred villages that dot the mountains and terraced rice fields of the Japanese countryside, with the intent of rediscovering relationships between nature, art, and humanity, forging collaborations between global artists and local communities, and connecting people to each other and the land.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Half a million people make the annual pilgrimage to witness this unique art project. Art Place Japan\u00a0offers an exhaustive full-color catalog of the eight hundred artworks created during the past fifteen years. For those lucky enough to visit, this book, the first in English on the subject, also offers detailed information on how to visit the often-remote sites, with travel information and a newly commissioned map that locates the projects throughout the Niigata Prefecture.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you have it! And if you can&#8217;t get yourself there, this lovely new book &#8211; <em><strong>Art Place Japan: The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale and the Vision to Reconnect Art and Nature by Fram Kitagawa<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; can help you at least pretend!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/artplacejapan_cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/artplacejapan_cover.jpg\" alt=\"artplacejapan_cover\" width=\"584\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/artplacejapan_cover.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/artplacejapan_cover-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>{1.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Harumi Yukutake (Japan), Restructure, 2006-ongoing; Image credit:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Masanori Ikeda \u00a0<\/span>\/ 2. Kyota Takahashi (Japan), Gift for Frozen Village, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 ; Image credit:\u00a0Osamu Nakamura \/ 3. Antje Gummels (Germany\/Japan),\u2028\u00a0Traveling Inside, 2009\u2028; Image credit: Isamu Murai \u00a0 \/ 4. Chiyoko Todaka (Japan),\u2028\u00a0Yamanaka Zutsumi Spiral Works, 2006; Image credit: Hisao Ogose}<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Available at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Place-Japan-Echigo-Tsumari-Triennale\/dp\/1616894245\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1LZRUwM\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.papress.com\/html\/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616894245\" target=\"_blank\">PAPress<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781616894245\" target=\"_blank\">IndieBound<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine a place like this? 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