Wallpaper* Design Awards 2004: Chichu Art Museum,At first sight Naoshima, an island of natural beauty in Japan’s Inland Sea, is an unlikely place of artistic pilgrimage. It has no bridges to the mainland and can be reached only by boat. It’s more than six hours by a combination of Shinkansen and ferry from Tokyo. But ever since Tadao Ando designed a now celebrated Contemporary Art museum there more than a decade ago, the island has been on the global cultural map. This year Ando added a second museum on the island, providing an even more compelling reason to visit. The Chichu Art museum is built into the headland and barely rises above ground level, so as not to disturb the natural appearance of the site, next to a national park.
The museum contains works by James Turrell and Walter de Maria, as well as a room devoted to Monet’s Water Lilies. With just nine works in total, the Chichu’s is a select but powerful collection.
The concrete corridors that link the galleries, some of them open to the elements, cleave through the hillside so the visitor moves from inside to outside, and the sky and the weather become an integral part of the experience, while the works are bathed in natural light. The overall result is akin to a Bond-movie vision.
The Chichu’s tranquil setting, Ando’s restrained design and the contemplative work it houses couldn’t combine better to encourage the visitor to reflect on the relationship between man and his environment.
Tadao Ando’s concrete apertures allow the works at the semi-subterranean Chichu Art Museum to bask in natural light
Information:
Chichu Art Museum
Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation
3449-1 Naoshima
Kagawa
Japan
tel: 81.87 892 3755
- Website: http://www.chichu.jp
@Source: http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/best-art-pilgrimage/387
9 December 2004 | Architecture
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