CITY REJECTS SCULPTURE AGOURA HILLS CALLS IT TOO COMMERCIAL.Byline: Paul O'Donoghue Staff Writer AGOURA HILLS - A bronze sculpture bronze sculpture. Bronze is ideal for casting art works; it flows into all crevices of a mold, thus perfectly reproducing every detail of the most delicately modeled sculpture. It is malleable beneath the graver's tool and admirable for repoussé work. of a girl sitting in a wing-back chair reading a book to a cat, proposed for outside a new furniture store as the city's first piece of public art, was rejected as too commercial by the City Council. The 6-foot-tall sculpture for the front of the Reeds and Son Furniture site on Roadside Drive came before the council under a 2-year-old city ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been aimed at beautifying spaces outside large new buildings. ``There was concern that that even though this is a fine artist who is involved, it was transparently commercial,'' said Mayor Louise Rishoff. ``The ordinance is very clear that the (piece of) art cannot be effectively a piece of advertising for the business. It has to stand alone as public art, not just as decoration of the building.'' Despite pleas from the sculptor, De L'Esprie, and foundry A semiconductor manufacturer that makes chips for third parties. It may be a large chip maker that sells its excess manufacturing capacity or one that makes chips exclusively for other companies. owner David Spellerberg, the council rejected the proposal by a vote of 4-1 on Wednesday night on the recommendation of the city's Public Arts Committee. ``Both the artist and myself are very, very disappointed,'' Spellerberg said. ``Once you start to talk about public art, I don't think the city has a right to dictate TO DICTATE. To pronounce word for word what is destined to be at the same time written by another. Merlin Rep. mot Suggestion, p. 5 00; Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3, t. 2, c. 5, n. 410. what this art would be. They don't have the right to say she cannot sit on the chair or sit with a book in her hand.'' However, Rishoff, and most of the other council members do not agree. The chair in the proposed sculpture called to mind large stuffed chairs on the sidewalk A Microsoft service that was launched in 1997 to provide online arts and entertainment guides on the Web for major cities worldwide. In 1999, Microsoft sold Sidewalk to Ticketmaster, which continued to provide guides, ticketing and other information to the MSN network. that call attention to furniture stores in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , officials said. ``What underlies all of this is that Reeds are not the client, it is the city (who is the client),'' said Rishoff. ``And it is a contribution to public art, and this is no different to the city going out and commissioning something directly. . . . We're not just saying, fancy up your building, we're saying . . . you have to convince us that it fits the site and fits the city's public-community goals.'' Rishoff said Spellerberg and L'Esprie are welcome to make modifications to the piece and return with alternative proposals, but the present incarnation incarnation, the assumption of human form by a god, an idea common in religion. In early times the idea was expressed in the belief that certain living men, often kings or priests, were divine incarnations. will not do. ``This is the end of it,'' she said. CAPTION(S): photo |
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