Material: Carrara Marble
Slide Mantra is a massive 29-ton sculpture carved from Carrara marble by the late Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi. This lyrical and playful work is more than ten-feet tall and functions as a slide with steps winding up the back which descend into a spiral. Noguchi designed Bayfront Park in 1986 and created Slide Mantra that same year to represent the United States at its art pavilion in the Venice Biennale. In this piece, appropriately sited in a city park, Noguchi wished to show his long held belief that play could lead to a new appreciation of sculpture.
