Free and open to the public; museum admission is not required.
Celebrate the debut of Giant Arc, Jacob Hashimoto’s largest work to date. Comprising nearly 75,000 hand-built kites of bamboo and Japanese paper, this monumental site-specific installation transforms SFMOMA’s Roberts Family Gallery into an immersive cloud canopy that stretches floor to ceiling and wall to wall.
At 6 p.m. join artist Jacob Hashimoto and SFMOMA Curator of Architecture and Design Joseph Becker for an in-depth conversation exploring Hashimoto’s practice, the aspects of physicality and meditation in his craft, and how he transforms kites into a medium of extraordinary scale and wonder.
Then, at 7 p.m. experience Giant Arc paired with a live sound performance by keyboard player, experimental composer, songwriter, and producer Nico Georis.
6 p.m. — Jacob Hashimoto in conversation with Joseph Becker
Phyllis Wattis Theater
Please note: seating for the talk is first come, first served.
7 p.m. — Sound performance by Nico Georis
Roberts Family Gallery
Jacob Hashimoto uses sculpture, painting and installation to create complex worlds from a range of modular components: bamboo-and-paper kites, model boats, even astroturf-covered blocks. His accretive, layered compositions reference video games, virtual environments, and cosmology, while also remaining deeply rooted in art-historical traditions, notably landscape-based abstraction, Modernism, and handcraft. Hashimoto has presented solo exhibitions and installations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, TX; Governors Island, New York, NY; and many more.
His work can also be found in the permanent collections of institutions around the globe, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Nico Georis is a keyboard player, producer, and songwriter from California. He produces music from his studio at Granny’s Dancehall in a ghost town near Death Valley. Like a gymnopédie for the desert, his music unfolds in sun-bleached minimalism as spacious as the landscapes from which it was conjured — a welcoming collision of ambient, Impressionism, and trance-like spells, shimmering with a startling originality.
“Nico’s work is very impressive and the best takeoff on A Rainbow In Curved Air I have heard. Obviously he went very deep into it and created something very special.” — Terry Riley
“Astonishing Persian carpet displays of patterned musical awareness . . . teeming with forms that behave in ways that recall descriptions of elaborately jeweled DMT hyperspace. — Psychic Arts
“Trickling rainbow icicles floating on candy clouds. Twinkling electronics and magical game bubbles to the max.” — KFJC 89.7 FM
Accessibility accommodations such as American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and assisted listening devices are available upon request ten business days in advance.
Please email publicengagement@sfmoma.org, and we will do our best to fulfill your request.
Presenting Sponsor of Thursday Night Live is Zoox.
Meaningful support is provided by Diana Nelson and John Atwater.
Additional support is provided by the Yerba Buena Partnership.