The temporary exhibition in the Palais de Tokyo’s mezzanine gives visitors the chance to escape to a small group of Japanese islands where Benesse Art Site Naoshima has been conducting a 20-year experiment on the relationship between art-architecture and society. The project began with a series of architectural commissions by Tadao Ando on the island of Naoshima, including Benesse House and the Chichu Art Museum, and has now been extended to the neighbouring islands of Teshima, Megijima, Inujima, Ogijima and Shodoshima, and to other architects (Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA, Hiroshi Sambuichi) and artists Yayoi Kusama, Rei Naito and Christian Boltanski, who is preparing to open a museum of heartbeats as his contribution to the project. The exhibition includes scale models, video and installations of the different projects being developed in Naoshima and, short of jumping on a plane to Osaka, its the next best thing. Last days (until 8 November)!
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