"Pneumatic Dreamer" - San Francisco, CA
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N 37° 47.112 W 122° 24.030
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The Pneumatic Dreamer by Michael Stulz, can be seen at 181, 3rd Street at Howard Street in San Francisco, next to the SF Museum of Modern Art.
Waymark Code: WMW5V1
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/13/2017
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Pneumatic Dreamer is a bronze sculpture by Michael Stulz, depicting a figure sleeping dramatically on the fourth floor terrace of the W Hotel in San Francisco.
"Pneumatic Dreamer is Stutz’s first work in bronze, and initially, he considered having the piece cast. He consulted a foundry but learned the cost would be “astronomical.” Instead he had it fabricated of annealed bronze strips intricately woven and then welded together at Matt Gil’s Studio, which specializes in doing fabrication work for San Francisco area artists.
The sculpture was specifically designed for installation on the fourth floor terrace of the hotel, overlooking the street below. Stutz points out that the figure, the gender of which is intentionally ambiguous, “could be going into a dream state, or arising from it” and that it illustrates “a very private moment in a very public space.” In keeping with that idea, the piece is literally a woven shell, in which, Stutz says, “the inside is outside, and the outside is inside”.
Pneumatic Dreamer is lit from both the inside and the front, emphasizing the woven lattice aspect of the design. Its bronze patina will weather to a greenish-blue shade in about a decade."
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