Passersby may find that the two new additions on the lawn of the Museum of Fine Arts are as enigmatic as they are enormous. Sculpted by Spanish realist Antonio Lopez Garcia, each bronze baby head – modeled after Garcia’s grandchildren, one awake and one asleep – weighs 1.65 tons. They were hauled in from Spain April 1.
The sculptures mirror those Garcia created as memorials to the 2004 bombings at Madrid’s Atocha train station.
The giant heads, entitled “Day and Night,” are part of Garcia’s first US retrospective exhibition, “Spanish Spring,” which opens Sunday and runs through July 27.
The show will feature 45 paintings, drawings and sculptures – including the foreign faces that now stand as sentries for the museum on Huntington Avenue.
