The most remote villages unexpectedly rely on the popular Internet of art festivals to attract 500000 tourists to sign in. Who says there is no hope in the countryside?

Recently, Japan's "Yue Hou wife has Earth Art Festival" opened, and Lehuo, the country's most popular life magazine, was invited to participate. Artists and tourists from all over the world flocked to the town with excitement to witness this triennial visual event.

Why does this art festival drive the world crazy? Different from the traditional indoor gallery, artists take the vast land as the stage, put wild works of art in the fields, and integrate nature with art to form many shocking landscapes.

Today, Shaoyao takes you into the "Yue Hou wife has Earth Art Festival", into this wonderful, magnificent, rare fantasy world.

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The wife of Yue Queen has the Earth Art Festival.

What is your impression of the Chinese countryside? Old villages, dilapidated tiles, or fresh air, bumper wheat fields?

There is such a field, there is no expected busy scene, but in the open stands a pure white window, the curtain flying with the wind, the beautiful scenery is framed into a fresh oil painting.

This window, like an alien, is incompatible with the rural environment, but it is integrated. This work, called "for many lost windows", is intended to remind people to open their hearts, to find the beauty around them, and to return to the embrace of nature.

There are many similar works scattered in this vast field, all of which come from the Yue Hou wife's Earth Art Festival in Japan.

Urban hipsters shuttling through various exhibition halls would not have imagined that the world's most fashionable art base is rooted in remote villages thousands of miles from the city center.

Where is the wife of the second wife? Yukawa Yasunari has such a description in "Snow country": "through the long tunnel at the county boundary, it is the Snow country." There was a vast expanse of white under the night sky. "

The prototype of "Snow country" is this county called "Yue's wife has". It is covered with snow all the year round, and the snow is as thick as 1 meter in winter. Coupled with its remote location, ravines and inconvenient transportation, people call it a "very remote place", which can only be used to avoid war.

Over the past few decades, young adults in the county have gone out to study and work, leaving only the elderly to stay in the empty nest, and the whole ethnic group is gradually declining.

Even the villagers themselves did not expect that one day in 2000, a middle-aged man walked into the village and held a strange exhibition to bring the whole village back to life.

This middle-aged man is "Beichuan Fulang", and this exhibition is "the more his wife has the Earth Art Festival".

Since 2000, the "Yue Hou wife has the Earth Art Festival" has been held every three years. Beichuan Fulang invites famous artists from more than 40 countries around the world to go into the fields, mountains and forests owned by his wife and unite with local villagers. work together to create works of art with strange and distant artistic conception.

The biggest feature of "Yue's wife has the Earth Art Festival" is to break through the restrictions of previous venues and put all works of art in nature.

In the vast field of 760 square kilometers of the wife of Yue, there are more than 200 works of art inspired by thinking everywhere. When you walk in terraces, mountain forests and dilapidated houses, you will be pleasantly surprised to find all kinds of wild devices that form a wonderful interaction with nature.

On July 29th this year, the sixth "Yue Queen wife has Earth Art Festival" kicked off, with a total of 380 works across 44 countries and regions, including about 170 new works, attracting nearly 500000 visitors.

Among the more than 200 works of art, Paeonia lactiflora has selected the most classic ones to share with you. How can an unknown small village be built into an art mecca that is popular all over the world?

When you think of the white house in the field, you may think of the water tower and the windmill. At the Yue wife's Earth Art Festival, there is also such a white house, but the shape is weirder than that of aliens.

The building is called "Songdainong stage". The main body is supported by four "feet" and is shaped like a creeping frog lying in the field. In order to express the awe of nature, the works displayed in the interior are closely related to this piece of cultivated land. Here, humans and frogs are true friends, guarding the field together.

Near the farm stage, several works are the highlights of the festival. For example, the following device, called "Flower Blossom wife has", comes from the famous Japanese artist Kusama.

The design continues the consistent style of Kusama, warm colors, psychedelic wave points, scattered petals flying wantonly, implying the tenacious vitality of the land.

Another representative work is "shed Field", from a Russian artist. Standing on the prospect platform of the agricultural stage, the staggered terraces are dotted with statues of farmers' hard work, ploughing, sowing, and transplanting rice seedlings. There are also hanging metal hollowed-out fonts describing the farming history of the land.

From a specific point of view, green terraces, colored statues and white fonts form an omni-directional 3D picture book, which restores the whole scene and process of farming, reminds people of the long history of this land, and inspires the love of the land.

The agricultural stage tries to explain the "Lishan spirit", that is, "the art of survival in harmony between man and nature".

Here, human beings no longer regard themselves as creators, but feel gratitude for nature, pay high respect to every inch of land, every green leaf, and every kind of animal, and remind every audience who comes to the exhibition that this is the land where we are born and where we live.

In recent years, the aging trend of our country's population is obvious, especially in rural areas, empty nesters are everywhere, empty rooms are either idle, or have been demolished, a dilapidated scene of ruins.

Japan is not immune. Because of the serious population loss, Yue's wife has abandoned old houses all over the land, and many schools are not immune. Makata Primary School was abandoned in 2005.

But in the eyes of Tashima, a writer of picture books, this abandoned house is magical. He turned it into a gallery full of childhood fantasies-gallery with picture books and trees and fruits.

He carried a large number of driftwood from the Izu Peninsula and the Sea of Japan and painted them, trees, fruits and paper with colorful pigments to make every classroom full of imagination.

At this point, I have to mention another "abandoned house renovation" project-peeling home.

This is a 150-year-old farmhouse, crumbling in the wind and sun. University professor Anxuan Chunyi worked with local villagers and volunteers to repair the room, and then carved intricate patterns for every corner of the room with a chisel.

From the floor to the wall, from the beam to the ceiling, all the patterns were chiseled out with their own hands. The whole room seems to have been transformed and takes on a whole new look.

This work took about two and a half years from conception to creation and completion, and a total of 3000 people participated in it. Among them, there are the creativity of the professor and the painstaking efforts of the villagers. Artists and villagers unite to enliven the countryside with art.

The artists have not forgotten the original appearance of these empty houses, nor have they forgotten the roots of the land. They use their wild imagination to bring this piece of waste land back to life and return to the old days in another form.

Such a grand festival, of course, can not do without the figure of Chinese artists. Ma Yansong, a famous architect, led MAD Architects to participate in the Earth Art Festival for the first time and renovated the Qingjin Gorge Tunnel, which has a history of more than 20 years.

At the end of the tunnel is a semicircular opening. The surface of the water and the stainless steel plate laid on the inner wall of the tunnel form a 360 °mirror, reflecting the V-shaped valley outside the entrance.

Inside and outside, real and virtual, true and false, people in it lose their ability to distinguish, as if they were walking in Wonderland.

Ma Yansong's design concept is to use the special shape of architecture to introduce natural scenery into the interior, so that architecture and nature blend together and reflect each other.

In addition to the works highlighted above, Yue's wife has other wonderful works scattered everywhere in the fields, which need you to calm down and walk into the ridges of the fields to find them.

For example, in the camping area, there stands a huge mirror that reflects the sky. Surrounded by towering mountains, this small world contains the movement of clouds, which can be called a visual spectacle.

Because the snow season is long and the snow is heavy, some warehouses of Yue's wife are designed to be arched to prevent the snow from collapsing. Taking this as an inspiration, Jimmy, a Taiwanese picture book writer, doodled the warehouse into a train, full of children's interest.

In addition to visual enjoyment, you can also taste the most authentic food in rural Japan. In the Lishan canteen, all the tables, chairs and floors are painted in a delightful light blue, and through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, the eyes are covered with vegetation as dense as a primeval forest.

The food here is cooked by the local granny herself, and the ingredients are seasonal agricultural and wild ingredients. In addition to local specialty rice, there are also iced cucumbers, mountain pepper pork and wild berry jelly. Every mouthful is fresh and full of seasonal taste.

These are just a drop in the ocean. There are 760 square kilometers of Yue's wife and countless surprises hidden in the ridges of the fields. With their love for nature and gratitude for the land, people regard the fields as a free stage to create wonderful art.

Such a large-scale art festival was not built overnight. It not only takes time and energy, but also needs the help and cooperation of the villagers. Curator Furang Kitagawa once talked about how to get villagers to participate in the festival during the preparation process.

In 2000, he discovered that his wife had this undeveloped land and came up with the idea of planning an art festival. He graciously invited local villagers to participate in the festival, but he was given a cold shoulder.

Curator Furang Kitagawa

For people who have been farming for generations, art is out of reach and incomprehensible. "what is art? I don't understand. "

Beichuan, who was frustrated, did not give up. He went to great pains to give speeches and called on people to join in, during which he was shut out countless times. When the first Art Festival was held, only 28 of the more than 200 villages were willing to participate.

Curator Furang Kitagawa

Later, he realized that the villagers must be personally involved in the festival in order to let the art really go deep into the countryside. As a result, many of the materials and crafts needed for the festival are provided by the villagers, and the maintenance and maintenance of the later art installations are also handed over to the villagers.

Today, the granny who is good at cooking in the village serves as the cook in the restaurant, the renovated accommodation brings income to the owners of the house, and a steady stream of tourists bring vitality to the village. gradually, the villagers have joined the camp of the art village.

At this time, a deep relationship is established between the work of art and the countryside. This art festival is no longer for artists to play and sing and entertain themselves, but to really integrate into the countryside and take root in the hearts of the people.

"taking the local residents as the protagonist is the reason why the festival was finally accepted," Kitagawa said. "

Let art return to the mountains and the soul to nature.

When we are held back by the busy rhythm of the city

When we forget the first heart in the numbness day after day

Please remember that the arms of nature are always open to you.

There are pure blue skies and fields.

There are simple farmers and land here.

It's only here.

Only then can we find the initial emotion from the bottom of our hearts.

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The picture is from the Yue wife's official website of the Earth Art Festival.