{"id":25,"date":"2020-05-25T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en_2025\/?p=25"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:36:58","slug":"from-earth-day-to-echigo-tsumari-art-triennale-amid-covid-19-pandemic-the-artist-yukihisa-isobe-thinks-about-environment-and-humans","status":"publish","type":"news_blog","link":"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/news_blog\/from-earth-day-to-echigo-tsumari-art-triennale-amid-covid-19-pandemic-the-artist-yukihisa-isobe-thinks-about-environment-and-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"From Earth Day to Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale \u2015\u2015<br>Interview with Artist Yukihisa Isobe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/images\/2020\/05\/image-3-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"165\" data-link=\"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/from-earth-day-to-echigo-tsumari-art-triennale-%e2%80%95%e2%80%95-amid-covid-19-pandemic-the-artist-yukihisa-isobe-thinks-about-environment-and-humans\/image-3-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/images\/2020\/05\/image-3-1.png 358w, https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/images\/2020\/05\/image-3-1-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"349\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/images\/2020\/05\/image-6-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"166\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/images\/2020\/05\/image-6-1.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/from-earth-day-to-echigo-tsumari-art-triennale-%e2%80%95%e2%80%95-amid-covid-19-pandemic-the-artist-yukihisa-isobe-thinks-about-environment-and-humans\/image-6-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/images\/2020\/05\/image-6-1.png 349w, https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/images\/2020\/05\/image-6-1-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"><em>Earth Day<\/em> , which Yukihisa Isobe participated in 1970 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">On April 22, the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic commemorated the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Earth Day, which was first celebrated in New York. Yukihisa Isobe, an artist who has been deeply involved with Echigo-Tsumari, had in fact made a great contribution to the first Earth Day 50 years ago. We asked him to share his thoughts on the past, present and future, as well as his vision for the next <em>Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale<\/em> in 2021.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.echigo-tsumari.jp\/en\/media\/200515-isobeyukihisa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&lt;&lt;Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">Isobe\u2019s work is exhibited at \u201cThings Entangling,\u201d a collaborative exhibition between the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and KADIST (MOT is temporarily closed).<br><a href=\"http:\/\/artfrontgallery.com\/en\/project\/Kiyotsu_Warehouse_Museum\/kadist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&lt;&lt;Learn more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"800\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 800 \/ 800;\" width=\"800\" controls src=\"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/images\/2020\/05\/Things-Entangling-.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Exhibition teaser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27,"template":"","tags":[7,3,6],"news_blog_cat":[2,4],"class_list":["post-25","news_blog","type-news_blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-etat","tag-fram-kitagawa","tag-yukihisa-isobe","news_blog_cat-fram-kitagawa","news_blog_cat-topic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_blog\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_blog"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"news_blog_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfront.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_blog_cat?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}