Also in town is Heart Ibiza, a club and restaurant designed by Patricia Urquiola that he co-owns with the celebrated chef brothers Albert and Ferran Adrià, of El Bulli fame. Though he began amassing blue-chip contemporary art only three years ago, the Montreal-based mogul has just unveiled a public sculpture park on the grounds of his Ibiza home, a year after opening two contemporary exhibition spaces near the center of the island’s namesake town. Barnum and Walt Disney might have admired. “They sent police cars!” When it comes to his endeavors-whether it’s creating a global brand out of a band of street artists or becoming the first Canadian space tourist (more on that later)-Laliberté is a high-stakes player, the kind of impresario that his boyhood heroes P.T. Laliberté laughed as he recalled how local authorities looked askance at his insistence on erecting the 420-ton installation on his property. Time and Space the Speed of Light, 13 solid-basalt columns that rise, Stonehenge-like, over the cliffs, was a commission from the Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers.
“They thought I was crazy when I brought this here,” Laliberté told me one afternoon this past February, practically shouting over the whipping winds as we walked around the first large-scale artwork he had transported to the island. While the intervening years have seen the street performer–turned–Cirque du Soleil cofounder become a billionaire, they have done little to diminish his flair for seeing possibility in unlikely places. These days, Laliberté owns Can Soleil, a 64-acre spread on Ibiza’s northwest coast, purchased from the art collector and Mercedes-Benz heir Friedrich Christian “Mick” Flick, and he arrives via either his own plane or his 178-foot yacht, the Tiara. Back then, the idyllic Spanish island was a hippie enclave frequented by nudists, out-of-favor aristos, and pedigreed thrill seekers on the hunt for mind-altering, round-the-clock bacchanalia. The first time Guy Laliberté, 56, visited Ibiza, in the late 1970s, he paid his way as a busker, stilts walker, and fire-eater. Landscape Architecture Magazine Jan 2012ĭownloadable Article: – Meet Guy Laliberte – W Magazine From Street Performer to Boho Billionaire: Meet Cirque du Soleil Cofounder Guy Laliberté.Meet Cirque du Soleil Cofounder Guy Laliberte.ARTNews: Scenes from the Venice Biennale: Day 3.
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