"M U S I C A"
Bronze, stone creation marks Music Row
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Veiled Musica photograph by Garry Hornbuckle 2003
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Musica photograph by Dean Dixon 2003
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... MUSICA is Alan's largest sculpture commission to date. MUSICA features nine dancing figures in a circular composition roughly thirty-eight feet tall. There are five figures which spring forth from the base in an over-all vase form. Four more rise up in the center floating above the others. The scale of each figure is fourteen to fifteen feet, or more than twice life-size. The dancers and part of the base is cast in bronze. The other part of the base is composed of massive natural limestone boulders. LeQuire writes, "Dance is the physical expression of music and the piece is intended to convey that feeling to the viewer in a composition which is simple, exuberant and celebratory. The theme of the sculpture is music, because of the historical and economic significance of the site. This is the heart of Music Row, the area and the artistic activity for which Nashville is best known. The sculpture conveys the importance of music to Nashville, past, present and future, and represents all forms of music without reference to any one form or style. It is meant to provide a visual icon for the area and for the city as a whole." "The theme is music, but the sculpture represents artistic creativity itself. An artistic idea often seems to miraculously and spontaneously burst forth. This is what happens in the sculpture, and the title MUSICA suggest this since it refers to all the 'arts of the muses.'" |
This maquette is a study by artist Alan LeQuire for the "MUSICA"
sculpture at Music Row.
Alan works on the maquette for MUSICA Figure 2.
The enlarged Figure 2 at the foundry in Wyoming.
The artist refines the final texture on MUSICA Figure 1. Photograph by Dean Dixon
Alan working in Wyoming on MUSICA Figure 1.
Alan working in Wyoming on MUSICA. Photograph by Dean Dixon
Portrait in April 2003, Wyoming, by photographer Dean Dixon.
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