我孫子市国際交流協会

Duration: Nov.3/Sat. to 18/Sun, 2007
Exhibition site: Aijima Art and Culture Village (Fusa), Fusa Shimin-no-mori, Miyanomori Park, and several spots in Fusa area

Hills, woods, watersides, and a time-honored warehouse became sites for displaying
art works for the annual open-air art exhibition of 2007.
Twenty two domestic participants and seven artists from five countries including a
Tanzanian, the first participation from Africa, had worked together for creating
artistic works.
Nearby elementary and junior high students also joined the event.

Under the beautiful autumn sky, many visitors enjoyed appreciation of 42 pieces of
works, scatteredly displayed at several places.
Each of them was created by the artist imaging the earth or the vast atmosphere.
For example, "a boat of soil" that is destined to be returned to the earth, "big frogs chorus", which was worked together with school children, "big stones in the trees", "a cobweb" of a gigantic spider, etc. were creating puzzling and distinctive space at each site.
On Saturday, November 3, an opening ceremony was held at the courtyard of Aijima. A congratulatory address by Mr. Junichiro Hoshino, mayor of Abiko City, a welcome address by Ms. Chizuko Inoue, the owner of the premises and the chief of the "Village", and introduction of domestic and foreign artists, were conducted.
The 2-week long exhibition was now officially kicked off.
On the following day, Sunday, November 4, an annual "lecture hiking" was held in the clear weather.
Approximate 30 walkers started the house with accompanying artists, who explained about their aims and pains of making arts in front of respective art works, which helped the viewers for understanding the works.
AIRA has been cooperating in the various operation fields of the exhibition through dispatching several voluntary interpreters for, lecture hiking in which the volunteers translated foreign artists' speech into Japanese, courtesy visit to the Mayor, press meeting, opening ceremony, and so on.
Those volunteers reached 9 persons (total number: 12), who helped communications between Japanese and foreign artists.

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