{"id":3276,"date":"2026-09-06T03:38:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/giant-arc-at-sfmoma-jacob-hashimotos-largest-installation-suspends-nearly-75000-paper-kites\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T03:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:38:49","slug":"giant-arc-at-sfmoma-jacob-hashimotos-largest-installation-suspends-nearly-75000-paper-kites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/giant-arc-at-sfmoma-jacob-hashimotos-largest-installation-suspends-nearly-75000-paper-kites\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Giant Arc\u2019 at SFMOMA: Jacob Hashimoto\u2019s Largest Installation Suspends Nearly 75,000 Paper Kites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At SFMOMA, Jacob Hashimoto unveils <em>Giant Arc<\/em>, a monumental installation composed of nearly 75,000 kite-like elements fashioned from bamboo and printed Japanese paper. Stretching from wall to wall and descending from the ceiling, the work marks the largest piece the artist has created to date. The installation is now on view in the museum\u2019s ground floor gallery and will remain through mid-2028.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:left\">Scale, material, and rhythm<\/h2>\n<p>Hashimoto\u2019s practice gathers countless small forms into an expansive spatial field, and here the accumulation is striking: a vast array of patterned components clusters and repeats across the gallery. Built from lightweight bamboo frameworks sheathed in printed Japanese paper, the elements read as kites, multiplying into waves of color and pattern that traverse the room. The sheer quantity and the measured repetition shape a singular environment that envelops visitors.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:left\">Light, perception, and universality<\/h2>\n<p>The character of <em>Giant Arc<\/em> shifts with the day. As sun pours through SFMOMA\u2019s large windows and mingles with gallery lighting, the atmosphere transforms, altering how color, contrast, and repetition register in the space. Hashimoto envisions the installation as an invitation to wonder for visitors of all ages, focusing on formal compositional elements\u2014contrast, hue, and repetition\u2014to emphasize the joy of the present. \u201cThe gravity of <em>Giant Arc<\/em> is its universality,\u201d Hashimoto says in a statement. \u201cThis essential nature allows people to find what they might need in the work\u2014mysteries if people want them, stories if people desire them, narratives to spin and twist, experimental maps and aerial geographies to explore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Giant Arc<\/em> is a sustained encounter with scale and sensation, offering a changing experience over time. It is on view at SFMOMA in the ground floor gallery through mid-2028.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>V\u00eda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2026\/09\/jacob-hashimoto-giant-arc-sfmoma-installation-exhibition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thisiscolossal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Hashimoto\u2019s largest installation to date, Giant Arc, suspends nearly 75,000 bamboo-and-printed-Japanese-paper kite-like elements at SFMOMA. The work fills the ground floor gallery, shifts with the daylight, and remains on view through mid-2028.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happening-now"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}