Dive into the light!.

Color noise in the concrete bunker on the Japanese island of Naoshima star architect has a unique museum for avant-garde art was built. Even the most spectacular beaches decorate sculptures - and in the village, there is the smallest James Bond exhibition in the world.

 

On socks shuffle six museum visitors the black stairs, at about five meters wide neonblaue rectangle. First up, they recognize that no Neonobjekt mural, but a walk in space. First, no one dares to enter, but dressed all in white Intervener means them to go - and they run on the fluorescent light.

The optical confusion by the peculiar blue is so perfect, that one would hardly be surprised if next singing angel-in Gothic Lolita costumes Petrus or a Japanese samurai-blending with cowl and the sky would appear keys. Instead, there are only a few meters a warning on the ground - do not go, crash risk. You can see the abyss because of the dark soil, but nobody dares to take the chance to leave.

Modern art to life and to make tangible - this is one of the stated goals of Japanese art Naoshima island south of Honshu region. The museum Chichu with walk-neon installation "Open Space" by James Turrell is just one of many exhibition sites. Even the shore is lined with metal sculptures, head-high reflective glass and steel structures schiffbugförmigen, which from afar could suspect that it was real wrecks.

So rich in art objects, the island is that during the tour in angeschwemmten plastic bottles and brightly painted bollards Artworks to recognize believes. And through the bushes on the roadside giant spiders lurking not too colorful to be true? At its meter large networks will be for the purpose of proof of authenticity can not be shaken.

From Yves Klein to Jasper Johns

Even if the port, where after 20 minutes ferry ride from the mainland arrives, a walk-orange gourd with black points, welcomed the visitors, it is clear that Naoshima, the "gentle island", is different than the nearby industrial and fishery landing of the Seto Maritime.

At the beginning of the nineties, the publishing house decided Benesse Corporation, Naoshima from an island of art making. Under the open sky numerous sculptures and installations, to the two art museums and Chichu Benesse Art House. The latter has a high-level collection of works by David Hockney, Jackson Pollock, Yves Klein and Jasper Johns.

"I wanted to find a direct link with the art in order to understand them individually," said Soichiro Fukutake, one of the founders of the art museums, according to website of the publisher. "Art should allow about the importance of a pleasant, beautiful life."

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