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28-540: Naoshima Island is known for its many contemporary art museums. For example, the Chichu Art Museum (literally, "in the earth") houses a number of site-specific installations by James Turrell , Walter De Maria , and paintings by Claude Monet . Designed by Tadao Ando , it is located on one of the highest points of the island, and various exhibits and facets of the museum's architecture take advantage of its commanding view. Another contemporary museum (and hotel)

56-603: Is Benesse House , also by Ando. Another is the Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum, with an outdoor sculpture garden, and a third is the James Bond museum, inspired by the island's use as one of the settings for the 2002 Bond novel The Man with the Red Tattoo by Raymond Benson . It is also known as the island that the fictional locations of Summer Pockets are based on. The museums and beauty of

84-461: Is De Maria's best-known work. It consists of 400 stainless steel posts arranged in a calculated grid over an area of 1 mile × 1 km. The time of day and weather change the optical effects. It also lights up during thunder storms . The field is commissioned and maintained by Dia Art Foundation . It has been speculated that The Lightning Field influenced the imagery of author Cormac McCarthy 's epilogue in his 1985 novel, Blood Meridian . In

112-727: Is a permanent iteration of Munich Earth Room , 1968, a temporary installation in Munich). Also in 1977, the artist recreated the work at the Heiner Friedrich Gallery in New York, which was then permanently reinstalled in 1980 at 141 Wooster Street, New York. The Broken Kilometer is also part of De Maria's series of monumental sculptures using a horizontal format, which feature groupings of elements ordered according to precise calculations. This series includes 360°/I-Ching (1981), A Computer Which Will Solve Every Problem in

140-446: Is framed by a two-meter square plate of red sandstone. In 1979, De Maria meticulously arranged five hundred brass rods for The Broken Kilometer , a permanent installation at 393 West Broadway in New York. In contrast to the hard metal of both Kilometer pieces, the third of these urban works, The New York Earth Room (1977), is a 3,600-square-foot room filled to a depth of 22 inches with 250 cubic yards of earth (the New York work

168-602: Is inscribed with the instructions, "Transfer things from one box to the next box back and forth, back and forth, etc. Be aware that what you are doing is meaningless." In 1960, De Maria moved to New York City where he married his wife Susanne Wilson (later Susanna) one year later. His early sculptures from the 1960s were influenced by Dada , suprematism and constructivism . This influence led De Maria into using simple geometric shapes and industrially manufactured materials such as stainless steel and aluminium – materials which are also characteristic of Minimal art . With

196-622: The Menil Collection in 2011, "Walter De Maria: Trilogies" was the artist's first major museum exhibition in the United States. In 2015, filmmaker and art historian James Crump produced and directed Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art . Set in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest, this feature documentary film contains rare footage of De Maria and the artist's extant and non-extant works. Troublemakers

224-483: The Munich Erdraum of 1968. He realized Land art projects in the deserts of the south-west US, with the aim of creating situations where the landscape and nature, light and weather would become an intense, physical and psychic experience. In his work, De Maria stressed that the work of art is intended to make the viewer think about the earth and its relationship to the universe. The Lightning Field (1977)

252-698: The University of California, Berkeley from 1953 to 1959. Trained as a painter, he soon turned to sculpture and began using other media. In 1960, De Maria and his friends, the avant-garde composers La Monte Young and Terry Riley , participated in happenings and theatrical productions in the San Francisco area. From his exposure to the work of La Monte Young and dancer Simone Forti , among others, De Maria developed an interest in task-oriented, game-like projects that resulted in viewer-interactive sculptures. For example, his Boxes for Meaningless Work (1961)

280-411: The 1960s and 1970s, De Maria created enduring urban works. As complementary pieces, Vertical Earth Kilometer (1977), and The Broken Kilometer (1979), address the idea of unseen or abstracted distance. Vertical Earth Kilometer is a one-kilometer-long brass rod, two inches in diameter, drilled into Friedrichsplatz Park in central Kassel, Germany. The rod's circular top, flush to the earth's surface,

308-631: The 9 Great Jones Street gallery in New York in 1963; the same year, De Maria's first solo show of sculpture was presented there. He had his first solo exhibition in a commercial gallery in 1965, at the Paula Johnson Gallery on New York's Upper East Side . (Its owner soon became better known with the Paula Cooper Gallery ) De Maria avoided participating in museum shows when he could, preferring to create his installations outdoors or at unconventional urban locations. His work

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336-541: The Desert ; Hardcore , both 1969). De Maria briefly ran a gallery on Great Jones Street in lower Manhattan with his wife Susanna, showing Joseph Cornell 's collection of rare films, Robert Whitman 's Happenings (he was then married to and created with dancer/artist Simone Forti ), and exhibiting De Maria's Minimalist sculptures made of wood. In 1965 De Maria became the drummer in the New York-based rock group

364-599: The Primitives and an artist/musician collaborative group called The Druds . The Primitives included Lou Reed and John Cale and was a precursor to The Velvet Underground . In 1980, De Maria bought a four-story, 16,400-square-foot Con Edison substation at 421 East Sixth Street , and an adjacent lot at No. 419, between First Avenue and Avenue A . In February 2014, this property was selling for $ 25 million. Businessman and art collector Peter Brant purchased De Maria's studio for $ 27 million. Brant's plans for

392-766: The World/3-12 Polygon (1984), 13, 14, 15 Meter Rows (1985), Apollo's Ecstasy (1990), and The 2000 Sculpture (1992). In 1989 De Maria completed a sphere of polished granite for the Assemblée Nationale in Paris, followed in 2000 and 2004 by works for two museums on Naoshima Island in Japan, the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum and the Chichu Art Museum . A comparable, 25-ton sculpture entitled Large Red Sphere (2002)

420-713: The artist during his lifetime. As Monet was an avid gardener, his own designs as well as inspiration gleaned directly from some of his most famous paintings were used to design the garden and ponds that make up the area, which even feature some of the same water lilies that appear in his famous series . The rationale behind Chichu Garden is one where, through physical experience, it is believed one's understanding and appreciation of Claude Monet's work can be deepened. 34°26′59.13″N 133°59′08.89″E  /  34.4497583°N 133.9858028°E  / 34.4497583; 133.9858028 Walter De Maria Walter Joseph De Maria (October 1, 1935 – July 25, 2013)

448-678: The building itself within the same realm as the art on display. The site features permanent installations by Walter De Maria and James Turrell , as well as painted works in the Water Lilies series by Claude Monet . Located between the ticket center and main museum building, the Chichu Garden is an area roughly 400 m in size that features approximately 150 types of plants, 40 kinds of trees and almost 200 kinds of flowers that either appeared in Monet's works or were collected by

476-403: The creation and operation of the island's museums and other projects since the late 1980s. Naoshima was made a village in 1890, and upgraded to a town in 1954. The town is part of Kagawa District . Naoshima is the sister town of Timmins , Ontario , Canada. As of 2010, only three of the town's 27 islands are inhabited: Naoshima, Byōbujima, and Mukaejima. Ishima is also inhabited, but only in

504-670: The earth') is a museum built directly into a southern portion of the island of Naoshima in Kagawa Prefecture , Japan . It was designed by architect Tadao Ando and opened to the public on July 18, 2004. The subterranean museum is under the administration of the Fukutake Foundation , a project of the Benesse Corporation whose president Soichiro Fukutake also acts as director of the facility. It exists as part of an ongoing initiative to "rethink

532-527: The island draw many tourists, whose visits help support the local economy. However, it is Mitsubishi Materials , loosely affiliated with other Japanese companies of the Mitsubishi name, that dominates industry on the island, as Naoshima has been the site of massive refining by Mitsubishi since 1917. Benesse Corporation (one of the largest education companies in Japan and based in Okayama ) has directed

560-436: The northern portion which belongs to Okayama Prefecture. Byōbujima is a minor island north of Naoshima, close to Okayama Prefecture, with a population of 19 as of 2015. The second-largest island of the town, Ishima, lying northeast of Naoshima, is divided between Kagawa Prefecture in the south and Okayama Prefecture in the north. The only inhabitants are in a small settlement on the north coast, belonging to Okayama. Ishima

588-402: The relationship between nature and people," and is one of several arts-related sites generating tourist interest in the area. Despite its position buried underground, the design of the building is such that it facilitates the exclusive use of natural light to illuminate a number of the exhibits, changing their appearance at different viewing times throughout the day and, in essence, encompassing

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616-772: The space were unknown. The building was developed into the "Brant Art Center," part of the Peter Brant collection. https://www.brantfoundation.org/visit/ De Maria went to California in May 2013 to celebrate his mother's 100th birthday and had a stroke there a few days later. He remained there for treatment. He died in Los Angeles on July 25, 2013, at the age of 77. He was survived by his mother, Christine De Maria; his brother, Terry; four nieces; four nephews; and four grandnieces and two great-grandnieces. From 1968 De Maria produced Minimalist sculptures and installations such as

644-519: The support of collector Ethel Scull , De Maria started making pieces in metal in 1965. Also in the mid-1960s, he became involved in various artistic activities. His piece, Cage , for John Cage , was included in the seminal 1966 Primary Structures exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York. He appeared in happenings , composed two musical works ( Cricket Music , 1964; Ocean Music , 1968), and produced two films ( Three Circles and Two Lines in

672-495: Was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with minimal art , conceptual art , and land art of the 1960s. LACMA director Michael Govan said, "I think he's one of the greatest artists of our time." Govan, who worked with De Maria for a number of years, found De Maria's work "singular, sublime and direct". De Maria

700-517: Was born in 1935 in Albany, California . His parents were the proprietors of a local restaurant in Albany and were socially very active, while their son was mostly concentrated on music. Walter De Maria's first academic interest was music—first piano, then percussion. He also took to sports and cars, of which he made drawings. By 1946 he had joined a musicians' union. De Maria studied history and art at

728-613: Was divided after fishing-related disputes in the Edo period . In 2011, 87% of the island was burned in a forest fire, though the northern settlement was spared. Mukaejima is a minor island northwest of Naoshima with a population of 15 as of 2015. Per Japanese census data, the population fo Naoshima has declined over the past half-century. This Kagawa Prefecture location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chichu Art Museum The Chichu Art Museum ( 地中美術館 , Chichū Bijutsukan ) (literally 'art museum in

756-671: Was installed in the Türkentor , Munich, in 2010. One Sun/34 Moons (2002), conceived by the artist in collaboration with architect Steven Holl , was opened 2007 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City. In 2010, The 2000 Sculpture (1992) was the first work of art to inaugurate the Resnick Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art . De Maria and Robert Whitman opened

784-1176: Was more widely shown outside the United States, and he had major exhibitions in Japan and Europe. In 1968 and 1977, De Maria participated in Documenta in Kassel; he installed his permanent public sculpture Vertical Earth Kilometer in the city's Friedrichsplatz Park. In 1977, a major exhibition of De Maria's sculpture was held at the Kunstmuseum Basel in 1972. He has also since been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions organized by Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1981), Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam (1984), Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart (1987), Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1988), Gemäldegalerie in Berlin (1998), and Chichu Art Museum in Naoshima (2000 and 2004). Organized by

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