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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s de Young museum in Golden Gate Park celebrates contemporary art in the Bay Area with a guest list numbering 883.
The de Young Open, Sept. 30 to Jan. 7, includes nearly 20 Solano artists out of nearly 900 emerging Bay Area artists working in nine different mediums, painting and photography to sculpture and video, shining "a light on the concerns and practices" of regional artists.
Calder-Picasso: Two giants of modernity meet at the de Young museum
Triple Gong, ca. 1948. Brass, sheet metal, wire, and paint, 39 x 75 x 2 3/4 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.-The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are presenting Calder-Picasso at the de Young museum. Conceived by the artists grandsons Alexander S. C. Rower and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, it is the first major museum exhibition to explore the formal resonances between the works of Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, two of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century. In more than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographsincluding many iconic worksthe exhibition presents a compelling presentation of the artists exploration of the void, or the absence of space, which they defined from the figure through to abstraction.