The newest addition to Naoshima, designed by architect ANDO Tadao and completed in July, 2010. The whole museum feels very warm and tranquil with LEE's works. Successful collaboration of architect, artist, and nature. Behind the concrete wall is the approach to the inner display area.
Click here to know more about the museum, artist, and architect, a page from the official site of the Benessse Art Site.
And here's the one greeting you on the wall.
Beyond the grass is a beach and the Seto Inland Sea. The Naoshima island stroll became merrier with this museum in place, making a natural walking route between the Chichu Art Museum, Lee Ufan Museum, and Benesse House area. You can easily go down to the beach where one of the artworks lies on the sand (boats corresponding to the painting displayed in the Benesse House Museum), and another is seen on the hillside done by SUGIMOTO Hiroshi.
Lee's exhibition, Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity, is going to be held at Guggenheim in New York from June 24 to September 28, 2011. It's the first North American museum retrospective devoted to artist, philosopher, and poet Lee Ufan, who has been active in Korea , Japan , and Europe over the last forty years. More about his exhibition at Guggenheim, go to the official site of that museum.
Article updated from my previous one at the former URL.
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