The contemporary art festival "Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival", which is held once every three years in Tokamachi City and Tsunan Town, Niigata Prefecture, begins on the 29th, and works by artists related to Ukraine who are under the military invasion of Russia are also exhibited.
The "Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival" is a contemporary art festival held once every three years in Tokamachi City and Tsunan Town, and was scheduled to be held last summer, but it has been postponed for about one year due to the spread of the new coronavirus. I did.
This time, as a measure to prevent virus infection, the holding period is 145 days, which is about three times as long as usual to avoid crowding, and in order to enter the venue, it is necessary to measure the temperature and get a wristband.
Throughout the period, 333 works including 123 new works were exhibited, and the writer who evacuated from Kieu, the capital of Ukraine to the western part of Ukraine after the military invasion of Ukraine, made bread objects made of stone collected at the evacuation site and evacuated. There are also pictures depicting the faces of the people I met earlier.
A man in his 60s who visited the art festival said, "I'm looking forward to seeing new works."
The "Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival" will be held until November 13th.