Sueños y Sentimientos
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| Sueños at Back to the Picture/SoMa Gallery - 83 10th Street betw. Market & Mission Sts. |
Now showing at BttP and BttP/SoMa, through September 30, 2013
- sueño (SWEH-nyo) -n., Sp. A dream, a fantasy
- sentimiento (sen-tee-MYEN-toe) -n., Sp. A feeling, an emotion
Our Summer, 2013 exhibition occupies both our gallery spaces. An exhibition of fine art works in Back to the Picture's Private Collection, we've divided the work into two categories: surrealist and dreamy subject matter at Back to the Picture/SoMa, and emotional/sentimental subject matter at Back to the Picture Latin American Gallery.
Since 1985, our love of art has led us to collect artwork by 20th Century Masters, as well as works by Contemporary Artists from the Bay Area and beyond.
Sueños y Sentimientos is the first exhibition of our Private Collection in over a year, and your opportunity to see fine art by major artists at your local Back to the Picture! A few of the available works are displayed here. Learn a little about our collection, then embark on a quest to see the works in person at both of our conveniently located galleries.
Sentimientos
Part of Sueños y Sentimientos, our Summer 2013 exhibition
Back to the Picture Latin American Gallery
934 Valencia St. @ 20th St., San Francisco, 94110
(415) 826-2321
Some of the works on exhibition include:
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| Innocence, from the Pleni Luna suite |
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Wilfredo Lam, 12/8/1902 - 9/11/1982
Cuban Surrealist
Wilfredo Lam was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, to Yam Lam, a Chinese immigrant, and Ana Serafina Castilla, daughter of a former Congolese slave and an African-Cuban. Surrounded by many people of African decent, he practiced Catholicism alongside many of the African spiritual practices and celebrations. These influences played heavily into his artistic expression.
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| Belle Epine (Beatiful Spine), from the Pleni Luna suite, 1974 |
In 1923, after leaving law studies in Havana, Lam traveled to Madrid to further his studies in the arts. He studied under Zaragoza, the curator of the Museo del Prado, and teacher of Salvador Dalí, and remained in Europe until his return to Cuba in 1941.
Early influences and supporters included Matisse, Picasso, Leget, Braque, and Miró. Through his experience losing his wife and young son to tuburculosis, coupled with his travels across the Spanish countryside where he developed empathy for the Spanish peasantry, whose plight reminded him of the Cuban slaves, his work took on a dark nature, expressed surrealistically and abstractly.
On exhibition are two color lithographs printed in 1974:
Innocence and
Belle Epine. Both impressions in BttP's collection are printed on Arches paper in editions of 274, and are signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, and are beautifully preservation-framed.
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| Mujer con Brazos Altos en Rojo, Rufino Tamayo |
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Rufino Tamayo, 8/26/1899 - 6/24/1991
Mexican Surrealist
Tamayo's best-known legacy to the art world was his mastery of the traditional printmaking techniques, and his development of the technique know as Mixografía, a process of combining printmaking techniques and creating a three-dimensional texture. Additionally, he is known for two major museums in México, both named for him: The Tamayo Museum in México City, México's National Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Tamayo Museum in Oaxaca, a museum of items of items of national and cultural heritage. Both museums were founded on Tamayo's collections of these objects, bequeathed to the nation upon his and his wife Olga's deaths.
On exhibition in
Sentimientos is this beautiful color lithograph, signed and numbered by the artist and beautifully preservation-framed.
Mujer con Brazos Altos en Rojo (Woman with Upraised Arms on Red) is one of Tamayo's beloved figure studies of the female form. This rare print would make an excellent addition to any collection, and is sure to demand attention in any space.
Other artists in the
Sentimientos portion of
Sueños y Sentimientos include:
Raul Anguiano, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Schanke, Christo, Jose Luis Cuevas, and more. Visit the gallery today for a viewing!
Sueños
Part of Sueños y Sentimientos, our Summer 2013 Exhibition
Back to the Picture/SoMa Gallery
83 10th St., betw. Market & Mission Sts., San Francisco 94103
(415) 558-9901
Some of the works on exhibition include:
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| Ileria, Leonor Fini, 1972 |
Leonor Fini, 8/30/1907 - 1/18/1996
Argentinian-born Italian Surrealist
In 1931 or 1932, Leonor Fini moved from Milan, Italy to Paris. Her contemporaries included Max Ernst, Georges Bataille, Picasso, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Salvador Dalí. Married only briefly, Fini once said, "
Marriage never appealed to me, I've never lived with one person.
Since I was 18, I've always preferred to live in a sort of community - A
big house with my atelier and cats and friends, one with a man who was
rather a lover and another who was rather a friend. And it has always
worked." Fini painted women, many times resembling herself, characterized by strength and beauty, portrayed in ceremonial or provocative situations. When men are included in the images, they tend to be painted as wispy figures under the protection of her strongly-depicted females. Sphinxes and cats were also heavily respresented in her work, as in the example at Back to the Picture/SoMa,
Ileria. This image was used in the early 1970's as the cover of a novel by the same name, and features the classic Fini themes of the strong female form rendered as a Sphinx. Our color lithograph is signed and numbered by the artist in pencil, and is beautifully preservation-framed.
Alexander Calder,
The Sun and the Water - color lithograph, signed by the artist in pencil
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| The Sun and the Water, Alexander Calder |
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| The Juggler, Rufino Tamayo, after |
Rufino Tamayo, after
- The Juggler This posthumous impression is an authorized Mixograph, embossed with Tamayo's logo in the lower left corner of the print.
Also in
Sueños, find works by the following fine artists:
Salvador Dalí, Alfonso Ximenez, Otto Aguilar, Robert Gatewood, and more. Visit the gallery for a viewing today!
Visit our
website to learn more.
Sueños y Sentimientos is on exhibition through September 30, 2013, and is curated by
Randy Figures (
Sentimientos, BttP/LAG) and
Derek Hargrove (
Sueños, BttP/SoMa). Please click on a curator's name to make an inquiry.
We look forward to seeing you!
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