With murals and pieces popping up around the city, the Louisiana Art & Science Museum began in March to take a look at what public art means to the city then and now with an exhibit called “Monuments and Metaphors.”
As 225 reports in a feature from the May issue, the exhibit takes up much of the first- and second-floor gallery space in the museum and features original small-scale studies of iconic sculptures downtown and stained glass works. And it provides plenty of insight into how such works come together.
A companion exhibit in the nearby Soupçon Gallery pulls from the museum’s vault a 1979 display that examined sculptor Frank Hayden’s bronze casting techniques and pairs it with the more modern techniques of local sculptor Brad Bourgoyne, who uses 3D printing. Bourgoyne’s process is shown through studies and casts of his 2008 sculpture of Paula Manship, and the final bronze sculpture was borrowed from the Shaw Center for this exhibition.
“This is not your typical art show,” says Douglas Kennedy, LASM communications director. “You’re getting the history, the science. It’s really multidisciplinary.”
