Altos del Mar Sculpture Park Landscape Design Concept
ADMSP Q & A
1. Altos del Mar Sculpture Park
where art meets nature... in service to the community!
Q&A
www.admsp.org
2. 1. Who is paying for the improvements to the
park?
The improvements will be entirely paid by
Altos Del Mar Sculpture Park, Inc., a Florida
not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) Public Charity and its
donors.
3. 2. Who is financing this?
All financing comes from individual and
institutional donors. All costs thus far have been
financed mainly by local individual residents,
neighbors and directors of the park. The funding
for the construction of approximately $ 4 million
will mainly derive from institutional and
corporate donors with whom ADMSP is in
ongoing, advanced negotiations represented by
an experienced investment banker.
4. 3. Where are the sculpture coming from?
All sculptures will be obtained as loans for a
specific time from museums, large private
collections and individual owners. All
contacts to the art lenders are being
handled by leading art experts and art
dealers available to ADMSP on its own
board of directors such as Robert Miller, Dr.
David Schaff and Gerrit Schulz-Bennewitz.
5. 4. When will the park open?
ADMSP is aiming to open the park in
the first quarter of 2013. However, the
opening date is dependent on getting
the financing and all permits within the
a required time frame. ADMSP would
need to start construction at least
eight months prior to the opening.
6. 5. Who is going to maintain the park?
The park will be maintained by the
staff of ADMSP and an independent
contractor landscaping,
maintenance, and service company.
7. 6. Will the park be open to the public?
What hours? Will there be a charge to
visit the park?
ADMSP will be open to the public
365 days/year
The planned hours are from 9:00 AM
to sun-set
There will be no charge to visit
ADMSP
8. 7. Who is going to be responsible for selecting the sculptures?
The Board of Directors will make all decisions. The City Manager of
Miami Beach will appoint three permanent directors to the ADMSP
board of directors. The board will appoint a Sub-Board to select the
art works.
Current Members of the board of ADMSP:
Art historian, Dr. Jur. Marlene Saile,
Art historian and Art Consultant, Gerrit Schulz-Bennewitz,
Art collector and Art Business Executive, Peter Saile,
Art dealer, Robert Miller (b. April 17, 1939 - d. June 22, 2011)
Art historian and art dealer, Dr. David Schaff
Investment Banker, Klaus Lewin,
Sculptor and developer, Juan Carlos Toca
Art Collector and scientist, Dr. Anthony M. Weaver
Landscape Architect, Margarita Blanco
Entertainment Industry Entrepreneur, Betsy Perez,
Architect and Artist, Les Beilinson,
Artist and Jeweler, Julie Miró
Artist and Art Business Executive, Steven Jackman.
9. 8. What happens if someone finds a sculpture
offensive?
ADMSP under its management agreement
with the City of Miami Beach is required to
exhibit sculptures that are within certain
guidelines so as to avoid this specific issue.
ADMSP will only exhibit established artists
from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
10. 9. Are sculptures going to be sold at the
park?
Exhibited sculptures will not be sold at
ADMSP.
11. 10. Who collects the money if a
sculpture is sold?
ADMSP is not selling sculptures.
The sculptures on exhibition are
on loan from the lender/owners.
12. 11. How are the sculptures going to withstand a
hurricane? and what will be done with the
sculptures when a hurricane is
approaching?
Approximately 10 large sculptures of more
than one ton of weight will be exhibited.
Each is fixed to a solid concrete/steel
foundation in the ground and will not be
damaged by a storm. The majority of
approximately 20 medium size and small
sculptures will be partially moved to a
covered storage facility in Miami Beach
during a hurricane. All measures necessary
to protect the cultural property will be made
pursuant to the lending contracts as
between ADMSP and the lenders.
13. 12. Why is somebody going through such a
costly and time consuming exercise to
privately develop a sculpture park?
ADMSP is a true neighborhood and resident
caused project that is being brought to
fruition by the giving of many. The individual
initiators want to do something good for the
community where they are all also residents.
They want to help develop a better
economic/social and nicer living
environment in North Beach. Among the
initiators and sponsors are entrepreneurs,
lawyers, artists, corporate executives and
students who all want to give something to
the community.
14. 13. What programming will there be and how much will it
cost?
ADMSP will offer the following programs, for free, to the
community at the Lawn:
Guided park tours by an art historian;
Art classes;
Classical music, jazz or other music events that are cultural in
nature
Book author readings;
Kite flying;
Outdoor Cinema;
Classes such as Yoga, Aerobics, Pilates, Ballet, Qi Gong, Tai
Chi and Meditation
Live butterfly releases
ADMSP will also be available for rental for limited private
events such as wedding ceremonies, baptisms, bar/bat
mitzvahs, birthdays, graduations, and other such events.
15. 14. How can I get involved?
We are happy to see you join and take
part in everything ADMSP. Visit our
volunteer page at http://
www.altosdelmarsculpturepark.com/
volunteer.html to find out what interests
you about ADMSP and to take part in
what you love.
16. 15. Who are the artists and sculptures that will be
exhibited?
ADMSP will curate a series of changing exhibitions of sculpture in
the natural sculpture rooms from established artists from the 19th,
20th, and 21st centuries. The large sculptures (approximately 10)
shall be exchanged every three years. The smaller (approximately
20) shall be exchanged every eighteen months.
The Tree Allées exhibit abstract sculptures that consist of 20th-
century Western sculpture that rejects representation and has no
starting- or finishing-point in nature.
The Dunefield exhibits contemporary sculptures that consist of
sculptures from World War II to the present time.
The Maritime Garden exhibits figurative sculptures that are
representational and derive from real object sources such the
human figure, animal figure, and any other form that retains a strong
reference to the real world.
17. Sample of abstract sculptors to be exhibited at the the Tree Allées
Constantin Brancusi Sir Anthony Caro Richard Lippold
Joan Miró John Chamberlin George Rickey
Pablo Picasso Mark di Suvero Louise Nevelson
Alexander Calder Richard Serra Tony Smith
Barbara Hepworth Henry Moore Donald Judd
Ben Nicholson Jean Arp Anne Truitt
Naum Gabo David Smith Giacomo Benevelli
Larry Bell Robert Morris Arnaldo Pomodoro
Jean Tinguely Tomas Schutte Dan Flavin
Robert Rauschenberg Isamu Noguchi Auguste Rodin
Roy Lichtenstein Lazlo Moholy-Nagy Walter de Maria
The sculptors listed here are only a sample of the types of sculptors ADMSP will exhibit.
The sculptures will depend on availability from the owner.
18. Sample of contemporary sculptors to be exhibited at the Dunefield
Mac Adams Rachel Whiteread Tim Hawkinson
Eduardo Chillida Jonathan Borofsky Claes Oldenburg
Yaacov Agam Louise Bourgeois Pablo Serrano
Kinji Akagawa Minoru Niizuma Robert Indiana
Constantine Andreou Art Brenner Nigel Hall
Andrew Sabin Anish Kapoor Erwin Hauer
Mowry Baden Ronald Mallory Eric Hauser
Hanneke Beaumont David Smith Richard Long
Omiros Mark Wallinger Tony Cragg
Sol Lewitt Clemens Weiss Jimmie Durham
Andy Goldsworthy Chris Booth Eric Orr
Bill Culbert Daniel Buren George Rickey
The sculptors listed here are only a sample of the types of sculptors ADMSP will exhibit.
The sculptures will depend on availability from the owner.
19. Sample of figurative sculptors to be exhibited at the Maritime Garden
Leonard Baskin Samuel Yellin Milton Horn
Ernest Trova Dale Chihully Charles Umlauf
Marisol Escobar Frederick Hart John Henry Waddell
Paul Thek Joseph Erhardy Edgar Degas
Manuel Neri Mirko Basaldella Paul Manship
Robert Graham Arturo Martini C. Paul Jennewein
Fernando Botero Auguste Rodin Elie Nadelman
Alberto Giacometti Raymond Masson Albin Polasek
Nikki de St. Phalle Roseline Granet Henry Matisse
Gaston LaChaise Philippe Roman Alexander Archipenko
Jacob Epstein Fracois Jousselin Manolo Valdes
The sculptors listed here are only a sample of the types of sculptors ADMSP will exhibit.
The sculptures will depend on availability from the owner.
