Les Lalanne at Transamerica Pyramid Center
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Kasmin is proud to announce that Les Lalanne's first outdoor exhibition in San Francisco, curated by Lord Norman Foster and co-organized by Kasmin and SHVO, will inaugurate a public arts program at the newly remastered Transamerica Pyramid Center. The new series, Pyramid Arts, will celebrate innovation and creativity across the arts and sciences, launching with two exhibitions curated by Foster including Les Lalanne at Transamerica Pyramid Center.
Reimagining the magical world of the artists’ studio and garden near the Fontainebleau forest in France, Les Lalanne at Transamerica Pyramid Center will feature over 20 major works spanning four decades installed among the distinctive architectural elements of the park’s urban oasis. Drawing their distinctive imagery from flora and fauna, Les Lalanne’s sculptures create an extraordinary universe that emphasizes the importance of the natural world, transforming earthly references into imaginative creations that meld the elegance of art nouveau metalwork with ambitious sculptural inventions drawn from the realm of mythology.
Visitors to the Redwood Park will encounter François-Xavier’s Lapin à Vent, an inventive creature with a rabbit’s head that rotates with the pressure of the wind, a bird’s wings, a fish’s tail, and four hoofed legs. Elsewhere, François-Xavier’s landmark Âne planté, a pack donkey carrying pots of flowers, as well as an example of his monumental monkey titled Singe avisé, will be situated in the park. Claude’s L’enlèvement d’Europe, bringing Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses to life, will be featured; a related example was recently exhibited at the Palace of Versailles.
Les Lalannes' outdoor sculptures epitomize the surrealist methodology of intervening in public space, creating juxtapositions that defy expectations. Set among the historic Transamerica Pyramid and its beloved Redwood Park, Les Lalannes’ outdoor exhibition embodies the unexpected connections that define today’s urban life force, encouraging audiences to reconsider their daily encounters with art, nature, and the city itself.
The exhibition builds on a longstanding relationship between the work of Les Lalanne and SHVO, with previous presentations including Les Lalanne at The Raleigh Gardens in Miami Beach (2019-20) and Sheep Station in New York (2013). The artists also have a history in California: in 1989, Les Lalanne installed six life-size topiary dinosaur fountains in Santa Monica, which still reside there today. Related topiary sculptures will also be on view in Les Lalanne at Transamerica Pyramid Center.
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About the Artists
Les Lalanne
Known individually and collectively since the 1960s, Les Lalanne’s respective practices remained recognizably distinct over their decades-long careers. Having rediscovered the Renaissance art of casting forms from life, then employing contemporary electroplating techniques, Claude Lalanne achieves a delicacy and sensitivity in her work unparalleled in cast bronze. François-Xavier’s works similarly achieve a streamlined elegance in their profound simplicity. His subjects consist of a menagerie of animals, stylized forms oftentimes married with functionality. In his words, “The animal world constitutes the richest and most varied forms on the planet.” Today, Les Lalanne’s works are included in premier museum collections and public venues across the world. In 2021, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, mounted Les Lalanne’s first dedicated art museum exhibition in the United States since 1977, soon followed by a major exhibition at the Palace of Versailles in France.
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About The Transamerica Pyramid Center
The Transamerica Pyramid opened in 1972 at 600 Montgomery Street, long known as the "Wall Street of the West" and the gateway to San Francisco's Financial District. The quartz-studded concrete tower has over 3,000 windows, rises 853 feet, and was designed by William L. Pereira & Associates, the famed firm that helped pioneer California's distinctive modernism in the second half of the 20th century. It is currently the tallest pyramid structure on the planet.
Transamerica Pyramid Center covers an entire city block and includes three buildings totaling approximately 750,000 square feet – the iconic pyramid-shaped tower, the office building at 505 Sansome Street, and a redevelopment site set for approximately 100,000 square feet of office redevelopment at 545 Sansome Street. Anchoring the three buildings is Transamerica Redwood Park, an urban oasis featuring a grove of mature redwood trees shading public open space.
In 2020 the building was sold for the first time in its history to SHVO and Deutsche Finance America for $650 million, the United States' largest commercial transaction to occur amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The Complex is slated for a multi-phase renovation estimated at $400 million, intended to elevate the Pyramid from a visual marvel into a magnetic destination for both tenants and the public.
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About SHVO
SHVO is a real estate development and investment firm built on the vision of Chairman & CEO Michael Shvo to create culture-defining experiences in iconic properties. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago, SHVO owns and operates a national portfolio valued at more than $8 billion and 4.5 million square feet across commercial office and retail space, hospitality, and luxury residential assets.
The firm's selective portfolio of architecturally significant properties, from innovative ground up new developments to revitalized landmarks that define skylines in the world's leading cities, includes the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, The Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach, 333 South Wabash Avenue ('The Big Red') in Chicago, Mandarin Oriental Residences at 9200 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, Mandarin Oriental Residences Fifth Avenue in New York City and the AMAN New York Hotel and Residences at the Crown building.
Renowned for its expertise, SHVO is fully integrated with highly diversified industry experience in every aspect of acquisitions, finance, development, design, sales, leasing, property management, hospitality, and sustainability.
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