Noguchi: California Legacy June 12, 2011

Isamu Noguchi (b. Los Angeles, 1904; d. New York, 1988) is an internationally celebrated Japanese-American artist and designer. Noguchi: California Legacy will be comprised of three parts that examine the impact Noguchi had in California: 1) California Scenario: The Courage of the Imagination, an exhibit of Noguchi’s South Coast Plaza sculpture garden of the same title, California Scenario (1980-82); 2) What Sculpture? Akari from the Venice Biennale, from the 1986 Venice Biennale exhibit in which Noguchi, that year’s United States Representative, exhibited the Akari light sculptures; and 3) Noguchi at Gemini G.E.L., the exhibit of sculpture multiples that Noguchi created in 1982 at Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles.
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