The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum is a contemporary art museum and archichtectual cross-genre masterpiece from the 1920’s, when Art Deco came tearing into Japanese traditional art methodologies. This museum was also once the residence of a prince of the Japanese empire.
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Coming to you Live
I am in Prince Akasa’s Tokyo residence. I am writing from a terrace overlooking the sprawling Japanese garden below. I walked through the garden on the way here and the stone walkway and water motifs remind me of a delicate human reimagination of a swamp. The art museum's design is undeniably european, but the Japanese influences are everywhere too. Its an extremely ornate building but it doesnt set my imagination aflame like Frank Lloyd Wright does. Not much does. Japanese gardens do, though, and I wish this garden had a more dominant presence because fuck Europe. I find their tasteful design elegant and virile — outside of bad bitches, that paroxysm is very difficult to find IRL.
Echos of Naoshima, the World’s Crown of Contemporary Art
Smaller rooms on the guided path through the residence have been converted into art installations. One instillation was built by artists who run a project on Teshima Island. I immediately recognized it when I heard it, before I even saw it. When I saw it, memories of Teshima flooded back into my mind. My moment was unlike any one else’s whose been in this building today; a traveller's lonely little gift.
The Heartbeat Project flashes a bulb in a dark room to the rhythm of actual human heart beats people have recorded on Teshima island.
Oscar Wilde said that the person who sees ugliness in beautiful art is irredeemable; art is a mirror and your own mental sickness is laid bare for you to examine, if you dare to admit that, when you see ugly in beauty.
I saw a memory and it provided so much depth to the Teien Art Museum experience for me. That was something special for me. The feeling for me was like an old friend whom I care very much for suddenly showing up where I least expected them.
The Heartbeat Project flashes a bulb in a dark room to the rhythm of actual human heart beats people have recorded on Teshima island.
Oscar Wilde said that the person who sees ugliness in beautiful art is irredeemable; art is a mirror and your own mental sickness is laid bare for you to examine, if you dare to admit that, when you see ugly in beauty.
I saw a memory and it provided so much depth to the Teien Art Museum experience for me. That was something special for me. The feeling for me was like an old friend whom I care very much for suddenly showing up where I least expected them.
— To Be Continued.
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