4299 x 2341 px | 36,4 x 19,8 cm | 14,3 x 7,8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
août 2013
Lieu:
'Huru' and 'Figolu' sculptures, Mark di Suvero artwork, Crissy Field, San Francisco, California, USA
Informations supplémentaires:
In May 2013, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), in partnership with the National Park Service and Golden Gate National Park Conservancy, decided to display eight of Mark di Suvero's large metal sculptures at Crissy Field. The display was to run until May 2014. Each sculpture is some 15 m (50 ft) high and 12 m (40 ft) wide. Here we see (left foreground) 'Huru', dating to 1984-85. A nearby information board reads: 'Standing fifty-five feet high, this sculpture is the tallest in the exhibition. The work rises from a sturdy tripod base to support a six-ton top section that spins and sways in the wind, its upper beams extending like arms outstretched in greeting. This exuberant gesture, which echoes the expressive possibility suggested in much of di Suvero's art, is here reinforced by the work's title: ''Huru" is an Australian aboriginal word that means both "hello" and "goodbye".' A late afternoon view towards summer advection fog over San Francisco Bay. Right background stands 'Figolu', painted steel with steel buoys, dating to 2005-11, with an information board reading: 'Di Suvero often incorporates cast-off industrial objects in his work. Here, three round sea buoys are suspended from a diagonal I-beam. Their forms are echoed in the cluster of circular disks that joins the arrangement of diagonal beams that extend outward, up and back to varying degrees depending on the viewer's position. In the context of the work's delicately balanced asymmetry, the buoys read as a nautical reference and as a guide modeling the lightness and buoyancy to which even di Suvero's most imposing sculptures aspire.' A view towards the Palace of Fine Arts and San Francisco skyscrapers, including the Trans-America Pyramid.
