{"id":581067,"date":"2010-05-27T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirt.asla.org\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2010-05-27T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:00:59","slug":"isamu-noguchi%e2%80%99s-california-scenario-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581067","title":{"rendered":"Isamu Noguchi\u2019s California Scenario Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Noguchi Museum<\/a> in Long Island City, New York,\u00a0has marked the\u00a0thirtieth anniversary of famed\u00a0modern artist\u00a0Isamu Noguchi’s\u00a0California Scenario with a new\u00a0exhibition. The public garden, commissioned by\u00a0developer and philanthropist Henry T. Segerstrom, is located in Costa Mesa, California. The exhibition explores the design of garden through\u00a0photographs, models, and video.<\/p>\n

In 1979, Segerstrom asked Noguchi to design a public garden to enhance two office towers built on family land once used as a lima bean farm. While Segerstrom initially\u00a0wanted a lush retreat, Noguchi instead created a simple stone plaza with a few green spaces. The Noguchi Museum writes that\u00a0the\u00a0artist first conceived the project as an “abstract metaphor for the state of California, from the Sierras, to the desert, to the woods. In addition to including redwoods and cacti, among other native plants, it encompasses a number of individual elements designed by the artist to evoke some of California\u2019s salient characteristics.”<\/p>\n

The garden features a crack filled with water and stones, which functions as\u00a0a stream\u00a0beginning at the\u00a0thirty-foot-high sandstone triangle named “Water Source” and ending at “Water Use,” a granite wedge.\u00a0”Forest Walk” takes visitors past a patch of California redwoods and “Desert Land” features a “symmetrical mound planted with a variety of cacti, agave, and other desert plants.” The sculpture “Spirit of the Lima Bean,” twelve-feet-high carved granite boulders,\u00a0educates visitors about\u00a0the earlier use of the site.<\/p>\n

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\nSegerstrom and Noguchi worked on the project for two years. Today, it’s a well-visited (and well-maintained) site open to all.\u00a0In fact, Segerstrom “personally ensured” California Scenario was well-preserved over the long-term.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The exhibition is open through October 24, 2010. Learn more about the garden and artist Noguchi’s\u00a0stone and light sculpture, and\u00a0furniture\u00a0work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image credit:\u00a0 (1) Aerial view of California Scenario. Courtesy\u00a0Michio Noguchi ca. 1995 \/ The Noguchi Museum, New York, (2)\u00a0California Scenario featuring Water Use (foreground), the Desert Land, and Water Source and Energy Fountain (far-ground), 1982. Courtesy Gary McKinnis \/ The Noguchi Museum, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York,\u00a0has marked the\u00a0thirtieth anniversary of famed\u00a0modern artist\u00a0Isamu Noguchi’s\u00a0California Scenario with a new\u00a0exhibition. The public garden, commissioned by\u00a0developer and philanthropist Henry T. Segerstrom, is located in Costa Mesa, California. The exhibition explores the design of garden through\u00a0photographs, models, and video. In 1979, Segerstrom asked Noguchi to design a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}