An art museum without any art
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Tokyo-based architect Ryue Nishizawa and Japanese artist Rei Naito recently unveiled their collaboration “Teshima Art Museum” at the 2010 Setouchi International Art Festival. The festival itself takes place in what is probably the coolest and most ambitious location for an art festival: on seven different islands. Located near the Takamatsu port area, Nishizawa and Naito built their museum in a hilly, partly forested area on the island of Teshima.
The low, streamlined, slightly arced structure holds no art, but it’s two main openings collect water droplets that gather into small pools – the same form the museum was designed to mimic. It also acts as an echo chamber of sorts, magnifying and repeating the sounds of the sea and the forest. It’s visually stunning but also structurally impressive. There aren’t any walls within and still it doesn’t require pillars or any other kind of support. If you happen to be near some of Japan’s minor outlying island, do stop by.
