Largest art festival around the world
What is an art festival ?
-An arts festival is a festival that features the arts in a wide sense of the word, not just visual art
This is one of the art festival
This is "Chale Wote street art festival, located in africa "
But have you every wondered which country has the biggest art festival ?
The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, located in Japan .
This art festival traverse 200 villages across roughly 190,000 acres of mountainous terrain located in Niigata, Japan.
The entire land is dotted with site-specific artworks created by 160 artists from all over the world, making it the largest, most ambitious art festival in the world. And each piece is united by a single theme: humans are part of nature. Curator and director of the Triennale Fram Kitagawa has put together a book called Art Place Japan that includes all 800 artworks ever created for the festival, as well essays and traveling tips.
Organizers will admit that the sprawling nature of the festival is an “absolutely inefficient approach deliberately at odds with the rationalization and efficiency of modern society.” The intention is to interact with the beauty and richness of the land, which serves as a canvas for art.
These are some of the arts which placed in the art festival .
Yayoi Kusama (Japan), Tsumari in Bloom, 2003–ongoing. Photo by Osamu Nakamura
Katsuhiko Hibino (Japan), The Day After Tomorrow Newspaper Cultural Department, 2003–ongoing. Photo by T. Kobayashi
Takahito Kimura (Japan), Sun and Footprints, 2012. Photo by Osamu Nakamura
Chiyoko Todaka (Japan),Yamanaka Zutsumi Spiral Works, 2006. Photo by Hisao Ogose