Mark di Suvero 'Figolu' sculpture Information board standing green grass towards steel sculpture, Crissy Field, San Francisco
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. This information board, entitled 'Figolu 2005-11 painted steel with steel buoys', reads: '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.' The legs of the sculpture rise in the background.
Size: 4143px × 2762px
Location: Mark Di Suvero 'Figolu' information board, Crissy Field, San Francisco, California, USA
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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