From Paris with Love: Sculpture Garden in the Jardin Tino Rossi

The Jardin Tino Rossi is a long but comparatively narrow piece of land located along the banks of the Seine River. It is home to the Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air, (the open-air sculpture museum), created in 1980 in the Jardin Tino Rossi to display sculptures from the second half of the twentieth century

Sculpture Garden marker on the bank of the Seine River

Hommage to Constantin Rossi

About Tino Rossi

Constantin "Tino" Rossi was a French singer and film actor. Rossi, born in Ajaccio, Corsica, became a tenor in the French cabaret style and later appeared in various movies. His romantic ballads made women swoon, and he sold out theaters wherever he performed.

About Jardin Tino Rossi

From May through September, you will find couples performing folk, tango, salsa, and other dances in small amphitheater areas situated within the Tino Rossi Garden right by the water’s edge at the Quai Saint-Bernard. The music and dancing start on weekends around 7 in the evening and finish with the last performance at midnight. There is also a dance competition held every summer that finishes with a grand ball.

About the Sculpture Museum

The sculpture museum stretches 1/3 of a mile (600 meters) along the Quai Saint-Bernard, between the Pont de Sully and the Pont d’Austerlitz. The museum currently contains over fifty sculptures, including pieces by renowned artists.

Le Grand Signe - 1970, Marta Colvin (1907-1995)

Le Grand Signe (The Great Sign) is an abstract bronze sculpture by Marta Colvin. Colvin was born and died in Chile, but lived in Paris for more than 30 years.(She studied in Paris with sculptor Ossip Zadkine, who has his own small museum near the Luxembourg Garden. He was greatly influenced by cubism and primitive art.)

Amphitheater on the Seine River

Amphitheater on the Seine

Demeure - 1954-1958, Étienne-Martin (1913–1995),

Demeure, facing the river. In 1954, Martin began his series of “Dwellings,” strange sculpture-habitats designed to be visited in the imagination by the spectator.

Demeure by the Seine

Mind Accumulation - 1988, Micha Laury (1946-)

Mind Accumulation This large, abstract sculpture was produced by Israeli artist Micha Laury in 1988. It has different distinct elements with cones meant to depict an hour glass on edge.

Mind Accumulation

In Perfect Balance - 1969, Marta Pan (1923 -)

In Perfect Balance Pan was a French abstract sculptor of Hungarian descent whose sculptures are highly concerned with balance, symmetry and geometry.

Bird-bath - 1970, Michael Noble (1919 - 1993)

Noble lived and was active in Australia. He was known for his painting and sculpture.

L’homme aux Semelles Devant - 1984, Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy (1920-2006)

L’homme aux Semelles Devant Ipoustéguy sculpted a monument to poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1951), the poet with “the soles of wind,” a restless soul who travelled constantly,

L’homme aux Semelles Devant

Chronos 10 1978, Nicolas Schoffer (1912-1992)

The sculpture is on a round white base and consists of a stainless steel parallel pipe structure. Stainless steel discs are attached to rods moved by motors. Schoffer was a Hungarian-born French artist dedicated to cybernetic art (the interplay between a responsive system and a human audience

Neptune II - 1969, Francois Stahly (1911 -2006 )

Stahly had an Italian father and German mother and grew up in Switzerland. After the war, he lived and worked in France, but his artwork can be seen all over the world.

Abellio - 1971-1973, Aglaé Liberaki (1923 - 1985)

The sculpture uses different geometric shapes carved in Lavaux stone with a sphere in the center in complete contrast to the straight inside edges.

Fiesole 1965-1967, Sorel Etrog (1933 - 2014 )

Fiesole

Etrog, a Romanian-Canadian sculptor, emigrated to Israel in 1950. He later moved to Toronto in 1963. He took part in the renewal of sculptural traditions in modern art, such as the use of bronze as a medium

Coeur de Gaucho - Sesotris Vitullo (1899 - 1953)

Vitullo was born in Argentina and died in Paris. He arrived in Paris in 1925 and worked for Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle as a model. This sculpture related to South American cowboys.