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struction.He stumbled upon it Cruz wrote for Aunn's office
<br /> accidentally when hP earns to and delivered to city officials.
<br /> Q ` the city for a meeting about Architect Ernesto Vasquez
<br /> 1 the La Colonia mural. referred calls about the issue
<br /> 1 y 1 To O'Cadiz,these incidents to Roger Torriero, a private
<br /> speak of The slight regard with contractor overseeing the City
<br /> e which cities hold their cultural Hall expansion.Torriero's of-
<br /> tD !! F landmarks, O'Cadiz said pub- Tice said he is on vacation.
<br /> f✓ 1 i� lie artworks belong to the pro-
<br /> t g The way et determine the
<br /> � v pre,and they should be treated difference between an archi•
<br /> ri with utmost care and respect. tectural detail and an original
<br /> "Architecture is art. It re- artwork is to talk to the artist
<br /> r Elects the society and its about his intent, said Emily
<br /> times,"O'Cadiz said recently. Keller, Brea's Community
<br /> "What we're dealing with is Services manager, who over-
<br /> r the history and cultural mein- sees the city's public art pro-
<br /> s ,ry of a city and a time." gram.
<br /> 1 Keller acknowledged that is-
<br /> ARCHITECTURE OR ART7 sues relating to public art are
<br /> As O'Cadiz recalled it,he got new and challenging for gov-
<br /> the Santa Ana City Hall corn- ernment officials, the first
<br /> mission because the architec- lawsprotectingpublicartwork
<br /> were not alifor until ilia
<br /> y ture firm Ramberg and Lowry V
<br /> needed help. 1950s The California Yreser-
<br /> "They had a designer from vation Act was passed in 1990,
<br /> the East Coast working there, while the federal Visual Rights
<br /> and be had trouble coming up Act of 1990 applies to artwork
<br /> 1 with a(City Hal])facade that sold or created after.June 1,
<br /> reflected Southern Califor- 1991,
<br /> > nia,"he said. But,Keller said,"As a com-
<br /> 44.a'T t no-
<br /> O'Cadiz,who has worked as com-
<br /> mon courresy• you would no-
<br /> +> ' ! an architect and has more tify the artist and ask him if he
<br /> .*rr7a than 20 public artworks to his wants to photograph (the
<br /> c credit, decided upon an ab- artwork)or take a mold of it"
<br /> stract, relief mural made of before it's changed.
<br /> concrete.It would encircle the Indeed, Fountain Galley
<br /> building.The mural's geomet- City Attorney Alan Burns said
<br /> tie shapes refer to pre Cotum• his reading of the state law is
<br /> bian artwork,a nod to Santa that it applies to t3'Cadiz's
<br /> ' Ana's Mexican-American pop- painted mortal there, eves
<br /> ulation. But O'Cadiz said he though 1t was created in 1474,
<br /> specifically made the designs six Bears lief-
<br /> KENNETH STUNHARDTfFor The©range County Register abstract to "include all the was passed.
<br /> DAMAGED WORM:Orange artist Sergio O'Cadiz stands in front of a concrete relief mural he cultures of Santa Ana,a reflec- "The law wouw ;ipptar 'u
<br /> bunt-at Santa Ana City Hall,part of which was covered by new construction. tion of the (diverse cultures) require the owner of the build-
<br /> in the United States." ing or structure to give the art-
<br /> At City Hall's front, space ist 90 days notice before it did
<br /> surgery separates the mural from the and alto to alter the aemove
<br /> Public art eight-story building.But in the and allow the artist a remove
<br /> rear,the mural is part of the or preserve tits artwork,"
<br /> sustaining walls-The concrete Burns said. He added that,
<br /> was poured on-site into styro O'Cactiz will be contacted re-
<br /> foam molds thatwereO'Cadiz had Carding the future t the La
<br /> � needed
<br /> made, and which were then Colonia mural,no matter what
<br /> raised into place, the results are of The survey of
<br /> O'Cadiz signed and dated resident's.
<br /> GOVERNMENT` A signed on the outside of the According to city officials, the mural on the front section, Unlike Brea,Santa_Ana does
<br /> building were gone. Covered the destruction of the mural which is still t,isible.There is not have an invenmry of its
<br /> damaged mural over. was a mistake that should nev- no plaque anywhere on the public artworks, which was
<br /> attests �t1Sl works er have happened. building,however,identifying one of four recommendations
<br /> O'Cadiz, who moved to The question now,however, y g
<br /> Orange from Mexico 37 ears q him as the artist that Cruz made in his d that
<br /> � � ft)f'�Otiefi y is what should ire done about it. Sauri Amirani,a senior civil Cruz also recommended that
<br /> ago, was dismayed when he The care and preservation of engineer for the city.once the ribbon- went the few miles to Santa public art, protected h Cali- C y,said the the city apologize to O'Cadiz,
<br /> Gt1rtII] Ill Ana City Hall. At the build- publfornic and federal laws only plans the architects worked who said he has tort rec-eived
<br /> y from showed the mural as an an apology
<br /> speeches lfPs2 over. mg s rear, on the site ni the within the past 20 years, are integral part of the buildingO'Cadiz has met once with.
<br /> former police headquarters, g
<br /> r the new, four-story, 72,t100- issues that cities are novices and so they considered it ar- city officials, Cruz, Torriero
<br /> By,AURA glFilpy at addressing.
<br /> p The grange County Register square-foot [toss Annex was chilec[ural detail,not art. and Vasquez.They offered to
<br /> tieing completed. And Santa Ana officials are •'I don't think anybody that have him errata a new piecx t>#
<br /> not the only Ones facing big works for the city had been in- art at the building site.
<br /> rtist Sergio O'Cadiz That wmplex includesa sec- issues. In Fountain Valley, a volved back then, and we But O'Cadiz is unhappy with
<br /> didn't know any- tion that wnnects the Moss An- painted mural O'Cadiz de- didn't have anything ul our that option.He has contacted a
<br /> thing was wrong nex with City Hall,which was signed in the La Colonia Jua- files that mentioned that this is lawyer (who was unavailable
<br /> 16 until it was too late- dedicated in 1973. Previously, rer, neighborhood has fallen an art(work)," Amirani said. to comment for this story).
<br /> 9 AOnly then did his the cafeteria connected the old into disrepair; city officials According to Matthew Cruz, First.he wants city officials to
<br /> ¢ phone start ringing. police headquarters In City wanl to pull inure residents a gallery owner and director of have the existing mural ap-
<br /> The bad news came from Ball. The outside of the cafe- about whether to restore it or arts and vulture for state lien. praised,
<br /> teria,elevated on rectangular whitewash over it. Joseph l..nuna,I}Santa Alta. Then he will decide what to
<br /> ' friends, wanting to know if cement pillars,had been dew- In addition,a concrete slab
<br /> � a oily librarian informed uiti- do-
<br /> O'Cadiz had seen the construe- rated with O'CadWs cement fntltHain O'Cadiz designed lit cials that they were covering "I'm not plotting or expluit-
<br /> tion going on at Santa Ana City mural, front of Fountain Valley's over an original work of art, ive. I just want to be recog-
<br /> Hall. O'Cadiz's friends had By the time O'Cadiz got Community Services building -But the iaformauoa came nized,"he said. "The charac-
<br /> been there,and several enor- there,that portion of the build- lung ago had ils water lurne d too late for it to be dealt with in terization of art is it is irre-
<br /> mous sections of the cement ,ing was rebuilt,and the mural off, it is now a planter. The a coat-effective way ac- placeable. It belongs to
<br /> mural that O'Cadiz had de- was gone. artist was never told of the de- cording to a three-page report people."
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