Distant Memory by Chiharu Shiota is located near the entrance of the village of Ko, on Teshima (on your right when coming from Ieura). It’s one of Art Setouchi‘s “veteran” artworks as it’s been around since the very first Setouchi Triennale, back in 2010. However, its age is showing, […]
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Big Bambú is a series of large scale installations by Mike and Doug Starn that they built in various places in the world (at the Met in New York, during the Venice Biennale, etc.) In 2013, they stopped by Teshima where they built a very special iteration of their art, […]
A few days after visiting Inujima and Teshima, we went to… Teshima! Again. However, it’s a different “we”. This time, I didn’t go with my family, but with my friend Cathy Hirano, who also co-writes an awesome blog about Takamatsu and its surroundings. It goes without saying that I warmly […]
The day before, instead of returning to Takamatsu, we spent the night in Tonosho port on Shodoshima (I’m directing you to a previous post if you’re not sure what I’m talking about). The reason was simple; the goal was to go to Inujima and this island is not easy to […]
Distant Memory by Chiharu Shiota is one of the permanent artworks in the Setouchi area that have been around since 2010. It can be found on Teshima, in the village of Kō.
When most people hear the words Japan, Art and Island, the first thing that comes to their mind is Naoshima. And it is true that Naoshima was the first “art island.” A little more than 20 years ago, museums and art installations started popping up here and there all […]
Before the Setouchi Triennale, Ogijima was “famous” (locally only) for one thing and one thing only: its daffodils. At the end of winter, like everywhere else, the island’s daffodils are in bloom, and they do attract a lot of visitors from Takamatsu. Nowadays, as the island is really re-awaking, […]
As I didn’t really visit Teshima at all during the first two sessions of the Setouchi Triennale earlier this year, I went twice in October. Here are a handful of pics before more detailed posts to come: I finally got to see the finished Big Bambú! […]
I have yet to see Doug and Mike Starn’s Big Bambú as a finished work. I blame the current heat wave that is over Japan for that (yesterday was the day with the highest temperature ever recorded in Japan; 41°C in Kochi, about 150 km from me). Because […]
So, you remember a week ago, I went to Teshima, and particularly to Kō for a specific reason. Now is the time to tell about that reason. Well, I went there to meet with Doug and Mike Starn so that they can introduce me to […]