Miami Advice: Shantelle Rodriguez on Isamu Noguchi’s Slide Mantra
about 5 months ago (12/08/2023)
Miami Advice: Shantelle Rodriguez on Isamu Noguchi’s Slide Mantra Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 interview Miami Advice: Shantelle Rodriguez on Isamu Noguchi’s Slide Mantra Superblue's director of experiential art centres explains why the playful bayfront sculpture holds a special place in her heart Tim Schneider 8 December 2023 Share Slide Mantra featured in Noguchi’s US Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale—the first by a single US artist © Phillip Pessar Isamu Noguchi created Slide Mantra (1986) as the centrepiece of his solo exhibition in the US Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale, the first edition of the event at which the Americans had devoted their space to a single artist. Noguchi constructed the monumental sculpture, which stands over 10ft high, out of seven interlocking components carved from 120 tonnes of Italian marble. After he redesigned Miami’s Bayfront Park in the mid-1980s, it also became Slide Mantra ’s permanent home.