Maybe it's a pity that it is not directly part of the botanic garden circulation which is lying around it. Or that it is organized perpendicular to the street in stead of along side it. Now you still have the feeling to enter. But the fee is almost symbolic (only 100 Yen / 1 Euro). It's made very accessible. And it's great to have the feeling to be inside.This Garden of fine arts in Kyoto (by Tadao Ando completed in 1994), is set up as a stone garden. A route in open air to just sit, walk through, enjoy the scenery. But it also shows a surprising inspiring mixture of analogue arts.
Because the objects of art shown in the garden are exposed to all weather conditions, these object are treated as building pieces. It opens up a beautiful freedom how to deal with existing art and how to see art as an object of use.
Since only reproductions of paintings are used, why not scaling them also they might thought?
And apply techniques to them to make them more 'easy to handle', interchangeable and replaceable. But it also enriches painting itself sometimes. The 'Last Judgment' by Michelangelo for example becomes even more methodical than the original with it's well working visible panel grid. The space of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Last Supper' seems to be a room where you want to walk into from the garden through the steel frame around it.
An inspiring mixture of both the analogue art of building and painting. On the website pictures are visible of other disciplines performing inside the garden, like making music. It's great to also imagine other contemporary art projects being realized here and giving a contrary attack to the building or existing scenery around it.
