Fun sculptures debut at San Diego waterfront park!
Three super fun sculptures made their debut this morning on San Diego’s waterfront! They’re located in the wonderful, huge one-year-old park that surrounds the County Administration Building. Created by world-renowned artist Niki de Saint Phalle, the pieces are on long term loan from the Niki Charitable Art Foundation to the County of San Diego.
Niki de Saint Phalle, born in France in 1930, loved San Diego and adopted it as her own. Several of her imaginative works can be seen around the city. In the past I’ve blogged about a few of her pieces. Here and here.
As someone said during today’s opening ceremony, Niki would love the idea of children romping on her playful sculptures. She believed that art should not be segregated from everyday life. Public art was very important to Niki.
UPDATE!
I was walking past Waterfront Park in 2018 when I suddenly noticed the cat sculpture had been replaced with a seal! When I spoke to a security guy, he said someone fell madly in love with Cat and purchased it!
Here are photos of the fun replacement sculpture, Large Seal (element of Seals), 1999…
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13 thoughts on “Fun sculptures debut at San Diego waterfront park!”
Crazy, wacky, fun. Great stuff. Interactive art is so cool.
Crazy, wacky, fun. Great stuff. Interactive art is so cool.
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I agree!
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We have wanted to visit this park. This gives me the final push – going to plan a trip there in the next couple weeks. 🙂
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Perhaps bring a picnic! (They also have a little snack shack in the park!)
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Thanks for the tip. We will do that!
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Is this exhibit still on?
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Yes!
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