The Blue Bay Sculpture Garden is a
sculpture park situated at the Blue Bay Golf & Beach Resort in
Boca Samí,
Curaçao
Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela.
Curaçao includ ...
, on an area of approximately 2000 square metres in front of and next to
Landhuis Blauw.
The Blue Bay Sculpture Garden Foundation was established in 2017. The board not only wants to foster tourism with the sculpture park, but also give an impetus to art education in Curaçao.
The piece that was first placed in the park was a
ceramic
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totem
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While the word ...
by
Ellen Spijkstra, followed by works by, among others, Giovanni Abath, Eddy Baetens, Babs de Brabander Sr, Hortence Brouwn, Avantia Damberg, Rien te Hennepe, Nic Jonk, Yubi Kirindongo, Norva Sling, Omar Sling,
Gerrit van der Veen and Brigitte Wawoe.
In 2022, there are more than 40 sculptures by 29 artists.
They are made from a wide variety of local materials
and are located along a sculpture trail that starts at the entrance of the resort and ends at the
manor house
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, a former
plantation
Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...
house.
In January 2019 a delegation of museum
Beelden aan Zee visited the sculpture garden. The museum will temporarily loan monumental sculptures of international artists to the sculpture garden. In 2021, a second sculpture by Nic Jonk was added, ''Pacific Song''. It represents whales whose tails form a heart.
In november 2021 princess
Beatrix of the Netherlands
Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, ; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as List of monarchs of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until her abdication in 2013.
Beatrix was born ...
visited the sculpture garden and was shown around by
Ellen Spijkstra.
Selection of exhibited works
File:Giovanni Abath - Man of Steel.jpg, ''Man of Steel'' by Giovanni Abath
File:Eddy Baetens-Johnny Walker still going strong.jpg, ''Johnny Walker still going strong'' by Eddy Baetens
File:Hortence Brouwn-Big mama.jpg, ''Big Mama'' by Hortence Brouwn
File:Avantia Damberg-Map of Curacao III.jpg, ''Map of Curaçao III'' by Avantia Damberg
File:Rien te Hennepe-Redu.jpg, ''Redu'' by Rien te Hennepe
File:Nic Jonk-Pacific.jpg, ''Pacific'' by Nic Jonk
File:Ellen Spijkstra-Door de jaren heen.jpg, ''Door de jaren heen'' by Ellen Spijkstra
File:Gerrit Jan van der Veen - Lost monument.jpg, ''Lost monument'' by Gerrit van der Veen
File:Brigitte Wawoe- Eenhoorn.jpg, ''Eenhoorn'' by Brigitte Wawoe
References
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{{Buildings in Curaçao
Geography of Curaçao
Arts in Curaçao