Anima (André Heller Garden)
Sculpture-filled botanical garden of cacti, bamboo and palms built on a former rose farm below the Atlas Mountains.
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This guide to the Anima garden in Marrakesh follows the Austrian showman André Heller, a circus and spectacle impresario who sold off his own art collection to build one last project on a derelict rose farm in the Ourika valley. You'll hear about the crew of up to a hundred fifty gardeners and craftsmen who built it from Heller's hand-drawn sketches, speaking six languages between them, and about the tiled head crafted from thirty thousand zellige pieces that became the garden's emblem. It traces how Picasso and Keith Haring ended up standing among cactus and bamboo, and why the botanists objected.
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