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Since Kanye West visited Naoshima in 2018, the Japanese “island of art” designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando and housing three installations by James Terrell, the fashion magnate has expressed his desire to live. – in a work of light and space by the American artist. This wish can now come true.
“Terrell designed an entire house and gave it to me on my birthday,” West said in a recent interview with GQ last year. He recalled his first reaction to the artist’s work: “I said, ‘We have to live in a work by Terrell.'”
Last June, West celebrated his birthday with the artist at Rodden Crater, a monumental Terrell landscape art project in Painted Desert, Arizona. When the artist donated the architectural design to West, the latter’s interior designer, Axel Vervoordt, was skeptical. “Alex used to say that James Terrell’s spaces are too pure for us humans to live,” Kanye recalled. “I said to Alex, ‘You’re not going to intimidate me on my birthday.’
West and Terrell have been very close since the rapper donated $ 10 million to complete Rodden Crater. Terrell bought the dormant volcano in 1979 and worked on it for decades as a solar observatory. For now, “Rodden Crater” is not open to the public, but within this installation West shot the movie “Jesus is King” to promote his self-titled album last fall.
SOURCE: RES-EIA
