Robert Irwin’s Central Garden at the Getty Center is an artwork where the medium is plants. The 134,000 square foot (12,400m2) garden’s planning started in 1992. The construction started in spring 1996 and the garden was completed in December 1997.
Irwin’s constantly changing artwork that is designed so precisely is “never twice the same.”(1) Gardeners work year round to maintain this organic sculpture that consists of more than 500 varieties of plant material. The visitors start their journey of an extraordinary garden experience through tree-lined walkway. The walkway becomes a zigzagged path where the green grass meets the steel walls of the walking path. Water is a major part of the garden. Zigzagged path cuts through a stream that flows on cobbled stones leading the visitors to the surprise that is waiting for them. It is a pool, azalea pool in which a circular maze floats.
Irwin’s creation is a theatrical setting, a wondering reality where light, colors, sounds and smells do their show in harmony. It is a written screenplay, a spatial pleasure where the visitor loses his/her reality.
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