Remarkable – who am I kidding: unmissable! Examples are the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art on the shore of the Øresund Sound in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen and, of course, the King of Kings, the best of them all: Inhotim Art Institute, one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary art in Brazil and an overwhelming botanical garden. A grand view of the green outdoor gallery and some of the wonderful sculptures.Īll the better when this venue is outdoors so that the manmade works are matching the beauty created by nature. When you see so much art, you also tend to pay attention to the setting, the background, and the composition and combination of the individual pieces.įor a couple of years now, I appreciate particularly the shows where the art enters into a dialogue with the venue so that both components are raising each other up and grant the beholder a different, fresh, unusual perspective. I’m an art addict and visit many exhibitions every year. While this by no means changed my plans on visiting the museum, I put all my other plans for the day on hold – like taking a boat ride across Lake Ashi…and most of all taking pictures of majestic Fuji-san I hardly could spot the tops of the mountains surrounding me, there wasn’t even a chance of seeing Mount Fuji. A bit uncalled for when visiting an outdoor gallery.Īnd yes, indeed, as soon as I got off the scenic train at Chokoku No Mori station, the last station before the terminal station of Gora, I felt the first drops of rain. A tad unfortunate for great views of a grand mountain. On a train that was clearly heading from Tokyo’s light cirrostratus clouds into a low hanging, deep dark sky. Only this particular day, the day I had planned a day trip to the Hakone region about 100 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, I began to freeze in my dark blue, kneelong’n’sleeveless sheath dress. Nevertheless, for days, I was soaked in my own sweat as soon as I stepped out of my climatized hotel in Tokyo’s Ueno district. It was September, hence not supposed to be so hot.
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