The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (Free Trial)

What is contemporary art?
If you want to know the answer to that question, look to the Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival.

The Echigo-Tsumari Art Field will change the way you view art into more than something you either do or do-not understand. It will also teach you that art is not something to be seen, but to be experienced.

Art is a discipline whereby encounters with artworks inspire you to think, perhaps about the difficulties that you are facing, or maybe about forgotten memories. The true value of art lies in prompting introspection by making you examine your innermost feelings.

However, most people forget how to expand their imagination when they reach adulthood, often saying “I don’t have a clue how to go about thinking about art”.
That is why we think our guide will motivate you to reflect on art and will be an essential part of your Echigo-Tsumari experience.

Take the artwork titled “Tunnel”, for instance.
This artwork is perhaps asking you, “Can you see through the two mind tricks embedded within?”
That is the first question that we hope serves as your starting point to ponder this artwork.
If you continue with our guide, we are certain that you will gain new ways to look at art.

And here, art poses another question to you.

“How much do you recognize in what you see with your eyes?”
That is the second question that we hope helps to inspire your imagination. It is also an impetus for self-observation, and a starting point to learn more about the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, in addition to the place where the event is held, the Echigo-Tsumari region,.

This guide is just one of many perspectives from which you can approach viewing of the artworks. We believe that what you feel and think when you look at art constitutes everything that art is, and is an act of experiencing art.

The Echigo-Tsumari Field invites you to a journey of the Echigo-Tsumari Region. Be it when you are on the bus while holding on to the handles, or just en route to somewhere, we hope that you spare some time to consider the question that art is inviting you to answer.

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