Experience the Summer of LOVE, Part 1 - S.O.U.L. Listens to, Ben Fong Torres @ The deYoung Museum
Experience the Summer of LOVE, Part 1 - S.O.U.L. Listens to, Ben Fong Torres @ The deYoung Museum
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S.O.U.L. Listens to, Ben Fong-Torres an American rock journalist, author, and broadcaster, who most recently has been a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, but who became a household name through his depiction in the film “Almost Famous” as a Senior Editor for Rolling Stone Magazine. There is also now a documentary in production about his life.
S.O.U.L. was privileged to be invited to the press opening of the Summer of Love Experience at the de Young Museum, where they were blessed to have one on one interviews with the curators of the exhibition, as well as some of the artists who shaped the imagery and culture of the 60’s, and even reported on the times for the press. We also got plenty of video footage, so those who missed seeing the exhibition for themselves can enjoy our unique trip through the museum.
From the museum’s website:
“The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll is an exhilarating exhibition of iconic rock posters, photographs, interactive music and light shows, costumes and textiles, ephemera, and avant-garde films. A 50th anniversary celebration of the adventurous and colorful counterculture that blossomed in the years surrounding the legendary San Francisco summer of 1967, the exhibition presents more than 300 significant cultural artifacts of the time, including almost 150 objects from the Fine Arts Museums’ extensive permanent holdings, supplemented by key, iconic loans.
In the mid-1960s, artists, activists, writers, and musicians converged on Haight-Ashbury with hopes of creating a new social paradigm. By 1967, the neighborhood would attract as many as 100,000 young people from all over the nation. The neighborhood became ground zero for their activities, and nearby Golden Gate Park their playground. The period is marked by groundbreaking developments in art, fashion, music, and politics. Local bands such as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead were the progenitors of what would become known as the “San Francisco Sound,” music that found its visual counterpart in creative industries that sprang up throughout the region. Rock-poster artists such as Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse, and Wes Wilson generated an exciting array of distinctive works featuring distorted hand-lettering and vibrating colors, while wildly creative light shows, such as those by Bill Ham and Ben Van Meter, served as expressions of the new psychedelic impulse.
Distinctive codes of dress also set members of the Bay Area counterculture apart from mainstream America. Local designers began to create fantastic looks using a range of techniques and materials, including leatherwork, hand-painting, knitting and crotchet, embroidery, repurposed denim, and tie-dye. These innovators included Birgitta Bjerke, aka 100% Birgitta; Mickey McGowan, aka the Apple Cobbler; Burray Olson; Jeanne Rose, and Helene Robertson.
The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and vRock & Roll commemorates an “only in San Francisco” social and aesthetic movement, and will remind museum visitors that in a time of international upheaval, the city played a vital role in changing society and amplifying the pulse of the nation.”
April 8, 2017 – August 20, 2017
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