Christo + Jeanne-Claude “The Umbrellas Japan-USA 1984-91 A Documentation Exhibition”

Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito

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Christo, Jeanne-Claude

The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, 1984-91 documentation exhibition is to be held at Art Tower Mito. The Umbrellas was realized by Christo (born in 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009), the couple internationally famous for such landscape transforming large-scale projects. It was completed in the autumn of 1991 in southern California and the northern part of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan simultaneously. In this temporary work of art, 1,760 yellow umbrellas dotted the hilly area of California while 1,340 blue umbrellas were opened in the rice fields of Ibaraki. The size of each umbrella was huge, six meters tall with a diameter of 8.7 meters. During the eighteen-day exhibition, there were 500,000 visitors in Japan and 2 million in the US. This retrospective exhibition includes Christo’s original drawings for the project, photographs, original documents, components of the realized project and scale models.

Schedule	Oct 1 (Sat) 2016-Dec 4 (Sun) 2016  Opening Hours Information Hours 10:00-18:00 Closed Monday Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day. Closed during the New Year holidays.
Fee	Adults ¥900; High School Students and Under, Seniors 70 & Over, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free.
Website	http://www11.arttowermito.or.jp/gallery_en/gallery02.html?id=453
Venue	Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito https://www.arttowermito.or.jp/english/
Location	1-6-8 Goken-cho, Mito-shi, Ibaraki 310-0063 Open with a Map App
Access	20 minute walk from the North exit of JR Mito Station; From the North exit of JR Mito Station, take the Ibaraki Kotsu bus and get off at Izumicho-itchome. The venue is 3 minute walk from there.
Phone	029-227-8111
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