ADVISORY/30-Foot Sculpture Travels Up Third Street, Will Recline On W San Francisco's Outdoor Terrace; Pneumatic Dreamer To Be Hoisted 46 Feet Above Street Level.City Desks, Calendar &Arts Editors ADVISORY...for Sunday (Feb. 6) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHAT: Pneumatic Dreamer, a reclining figure five times life-size, 30
feet long and nearly eight feet tall, will be transported via
crane, to W San Francisco from Third and 24th Streets, to be
installed on the hotel's Third Street podium frieze.
WHEN: Sunday, February 6
Pneumatic Dreamer is scheduled to arrive at approximately 8 a.m.
WHERE: W San Francisco
181 Third Street, between Howard and Mission Streets
San Francisco
MORE INFO: Pneumatic pneumatic /pneu·mat·ic/ (noo-mat´ik) 1. pertaining to air. 2. respiratory. pneu·mat·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to air or other gases. 2. Dreamer, a sculpture by local San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden artist Michael Stutz, is funded by W San Francisco, a Starwood Hotels &Resorts Worldwide, Inc. property, in accordance with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency One Percent for Art Program. Built of irregularly sheared sheared adj. Shaped or finished by shearing, especially cut or trimmed to a uniform length: a sheared fur coat. Adj. 1. , annealed bronze strips woven together into a larger than life larg·er than life adj. Very impressive or imposing: "This is a person of surpassing integrity; a man of the utmost sincerity; somewhat larger than life" Joyce Carol Oates. , reclining figure 30 feet long and seven-and-a-half feet high, Pneumatic Dreamer was conceived as a natural complement to the neo-classical design of W San Francisco and as an apt expression of a neighborhood that encompasses both the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a major modern art museum and San Francisco landmark. It opened in 1935 under founding director Dr. Grace Morley (Grace L. and the Yerba Buena yerba buena (yĕr`bə bwā`nə), trailing evergreen perennial (Micromeria chamissonis) of the family Labiatae (mint family). It is native to W North America and especially common to woodland areas along the Pacific coast. Center for the Arts. Michael Stutz's art has developed as a site-specific response to public space. Blending spectacular scale, intimate posture and obsessive attention to detail, Stutz describes his art as &uot;exploring the dichotomy between the private and the public persona, using the basic expressiveness of the human body.&uot; Stutz's success with large-scale sculptures -- his experience creating sizable figures for New Orleans' famed Mardi Gras Mardi Gras (mär`dē grä), last day before the fasting season of Lent. It is the French name for Shrove Tuesday. Literally translated, the term means "fat Tuesday" and was so called because it represented the last opportunity for parades led him to his sculptural work -- and his commitment to creating public art for the enhancement of San Francisco's cultural landscape earned him the highly sought-after commission. Pneumatic Dreamer was selected, in part, by a panel including representatives from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. |
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