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 Mondrian Meets The Beatles - San Francisco, CA
N 37° 37.194 W 122° 23.501
10S E 553683 N 4163818
A diorama-like construction showing the Beatles arriving in San Francisco
Waymark Code: WM1034D
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/16/2019
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Beatles arriving at SFO
Source: sfgate.com |
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 Diorama at Gate 1010
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On August 29, 1966, the Beatles gave their last commercial concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park. A diorama-like construction at Gate G101 of the International Terminal in San Francisco's Airport shows the Beatles arriving in California for the last time.
This is actually an impressive piece of art, created by Japanese-German artist Kota Ezawa in 2017. Here is, what the airport's Public Art Collection Catalog writes about it:
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In this diorama-like construction, The Beatles are shown exiting an airplane on their first US tour in 1964. The colored rectangles superimposed onto this scene are based on Piet Mondrian’s Composition C (1935).
By combining an archival image with an abstract composition, this work attempts to free the photograph of its documentary status while adding a narrative to a set of seemingly static primary color fields.
Mondrian Meets The Beatles also imagines a meeting that never took place between a painter and music band, each of which revolutionized their respective fields of culture. |
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 Gate 101 waiting area
Source: flysfo.com |
Location:
San Francisco International Airport, Gate G 101
Type of location: Beatles history
Connection to The Beatles:
In August 1966, San Francisco Airport was the final airport of the Beatles' final tour.
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