Echigo-Tsumari Autumn 2009


Dates: Saturday 3 October through Monday 23 November, 2009
Venue: Echigo-Tsumari region (Tokamachi City + Tsunan Town, Niigata Prefecture) 760 km2
Organized by: Echigo-Tsumari Autumn 2009 Executive Committee

Echigo-Tsumari Autumn 2009 Passport


Price:
　Adults: 2500 yen / University students + Silver (65 years or over): 2000 yen
　Elementary, junior high and high school students: 500 yen

・ The passport is valid for one person throughout the period (3 Oct to 23 Nov).
・ Valid once only for each artwork
　 (for the second or subsequent visit the visitor will be charged only half the usual visitation fee on presentation of the Passport).
・ The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 passport is also available.

Passports are sold at:
Tokamachi Station West Exit Information Center / Matsudai Station / Matsudai No Butai /
Echigo-Tsumari Exchange Center "Kinare" / Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science "Kyororo"/
sites of "Vacant House Projects" and "Closed School Projects" / Art Front Gallery
Guided bus tours to visit artworks scattered throughout the region larger than 23 wards of Tokyo.



Dates of service:　Every Saturday and Sunday, Holidays during the period
Departure:　Echigo-Yuzawa Station East Exit 9:15
　　　　　　Tokamachi Station West Exit 10:15
Return:　Tokamachi Station West Exit 16:20
　　　　　Echigo-Yuzawa Station East Exit 17:20
Charge:　5,800 yen Includes lunch. Passport not included.
Reservation: 　Echigo Kotsu Golden Tour +81 (0)120 865 615
Courses:
　*Saturdays & Holidays
　　Ubusuna House → Antony Gormley "Another Singularity" → lunch → Harumi Yukutake "Restructure"
　　　→ Casagrande & Rintala "Potemkin" → Hachi & Seizo Tashima Museum of Picture Book Art
　* Sundays
　　Christian Boltanski "Last Class" → Chiharu Shiota "House Memory" → No Butai / lunch
　　　→ Nihon University "Shedding House" & "Croquette House" → Claude Leveque "In silence or in noises"

　*For guided tours on weekdays, please call to: +81 (0)25 595 6688

Over 200 works by the artists from 30 countries include:
・Ubusuna House
・Antony Gormley "Another Singularity"
・Seizo Tashima "Hachi & Seizo Tashima Museum of Picture Art Book"
・Harumi Yukutake "Restructure"
・Claude Leveque "In silence or in noises"
・Junichi Kurakake + Nihon University College of Art Sculpture Course "Shedding House" & "Croquette House"
・Chiharu Shiota "House Memory"
・Christian Boltanski + Jean Kalman "Last Class"
・Marina Abramovic "Dream House"

>> The list of available works（PDF：184KB）

※Please note that some works are opened only on weekends and holidays.



Antony Gormley
"Another Singularity"
Claude Leveque
"In silence or in noises"
Christian Boltanski + Jean Kalman
"Last Class"
※Sponsor：Soichiro Fukutake

Seizo Tashima
"Hachi & Seizo Tashima Museum of Picture Art Book"
Harumi Yukutake
"Restructure"
Architect Office Casagrande＆Rintala
"Potemkin"



Ubusuna House (ceramic art gallery)
Please taste autumn meals with tableware created by famous ceramists.

Owner: Fukutake Foundation for the Promotion of Regional Culture
Hachi Café (Museum of Picture Art Book)
Spanish rice food "Arroz" is cooked and served by local housewives of the Hachi Community.
Matsudai Satoyama Restaurant (Matsudai No Butai)
Serves you with new menus using fresh rice, mushrooms, walnuts, vegetables harvested in autumn.



Sansho House
A closed school has bee refurbished into a dormitory type accommodation. Different people meet and gather. It can be used for seminars and training camps.
Shedding House
A 150 year old house has been reborn by carving all wooden interiors. You can book the entire house.
Dream House
An artwork created by Marina Abramovic. The lodgers write their dreams in the "Dream Book".

Naming Rights：WILLCOM, Inc "WILLCOM HOUSE"

House of Light
An artwork created by James Turrell. You can enjoy colored leaves and experience the change of the colors of the sky at sunset and sunrise.
Katakuri-no-Yado
A closed school located in Akiyamago, known as one of the 100 lands of mystery in Japan. You can enjoy hot spring and colored leaves. 		 


Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Tokyo Secretariat
c/o Art Front Gallery
Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033
TEL +81 (0)3 3476 4360　/　FAX +81 (0)3 3476 4874
E-mail: tsumaripr@artfront.co.jp