I’d love to think at least one of the giant bronze baby heads planted outside the Huntington Street entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is dreaming of trees. Titled “Day and Night,” the installation was sculpted by Spanish realist Antonio López García and consists of a pair of bookended baby heads: one awake, the other sleeping. Today, both heads were showered with windblown crabapple blossoms.
If you, too, wish to dream of trees, click over to 10,000 Birds for this month’s installment of the Festival of the Trees. There you’ll find enough tree-related links to keep your eyes wide open.
Click here for my photo set featuring Antonio López García’s big babies. You can see their conception here and installation here. Enjoy!
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May 2, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Wow! Grotesque and wonderful.
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May 3, 2008 at 11:02 am
Yes. The indoor exhibit of works by López García included a case full of grapefruit-sized baby heads, several of them with inch-long segments of spine emanating from their necks like they’d been wrung off actual infants. “Grotesque and wonderful” describes it exactly.
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May 4, 2008 at 10:34 am
Oh right, I forgot about the case of baby heads with (brain) stems. I like the close-up at the bottom, where you can see the textures. I hadn’t thought of the outdoor ones as grotesque particularly, but seeing it so close up like that definitely brings out its grotesqueness!
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May 14, 2008 at 8:27 am
Olmecs!
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May 14, 2008 at 10:55 am
Yes, infant Olmecs!
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