OCTOBER 2000
NEW SCULPTURE ADORNS CAMPUS
An anonymous art collector is lending Florida State University six pieces of outdoor sculpture by internationally famous artists.
The collection will remain on the FSU campus for at least 18 months.
Called "the Sesquicentennial Sculpture Exhibition," the six pieces will mark the university's founding in 1851.
The exhibition includes two works by the English sculptor Lynn Chadwick, "Back to Venice" and "Beast Alerted."
Chadwick, whose works are in museums all over the world, is acknowledged today to be the logical successor to Henry Moore as the best figurative innovator.
Three figurative pieces by artist Boaz Vaadia - the largest weighs 14,000 pounds - were created with stacked bluestones. Vaadia was born in Israel, and his work is in private collections and museums all over the world.
"Taichi Single Whip," by Chinese sculptor Ju Ming, is nine feet tall. It has been on display at the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Museum. Ju Ming's work is impressive for monumental scale and strong fluid motion.
The sculptures are at central sites on campus, including the lawn between Jennie Murphree Hall and the Sandels Building, the south lawn of the Conradi Biology Building, the lawn east of the Oglesby Union pool and south of the Rovetta Business Building B.
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