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| | Elsewhere: New Forms - Architecture in the 1990's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Arata Isozaki has long been one of Japan's foremost designers and his 1994 Nagi MoCA in the Okayama Prefecture, shown above, is a small museum dedicated to site-specific installations by three artists, Shusaku Arawaka, Kazuo Okazaki and Aiko Miyawaki, Isozaki's wife, who created a reflecting pool with swaying stainless steel wire sculptures of exquisite grace. |
 | | The museum, Jodidio continues, "and art design is integrated into a symbolic triad formed by the sun, moon and earth, the whole aligned with a nearby 'sacred' mountain. |
 | | The Nagi MoCA is of importance not because of its size but because of its integrated effort to create a symbolic structure, in harmony both with the art that it houses and gives significance to, and with the local traditions and topography. |
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