SFMOMA: How Wine Became Modern
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At the entrance to the exhibition is Peter Wegner's mural 'Veritas,' which charts over 200 paint colors named after wine and grapes, from Bacchus to Grapety Grape. -
The next gallery contains a floor-to-ceiling mural depicting the 1976 'Judgment of Paris,' during which nine French wine experts held a blind taste test and pronounced a number of northern California wines superior to esteemed French vintages. Image courtesy Diller Scofidio + Renfro. -
In another gallery, a map shows where some of the coolest winery architecture resides. -
Among the ranking wine architecture is this tasting pavilion designed by Zaha Hadid. R. López de Heredia Viña Tondonia, 2006. Photo by Pepe Franco, courtesy of Viña Tondonia. -
Here's the interior of the Hadid-designed tasting pavilion. -
This is the Frank O. Gehry-designed Hotel Marqués de Riscal, 2006. Image courtesy Hotel Marqués de Riscal. -
Here's Steven Holl Architects' Loisium Hotel, 2003. Image: Lucas Wasserman. -
A full grape vine holds court on a gallery wall, roots and all, as if to remind us of the down-to-earth source of all the wine fuss. -
Adjacent is the Wine Label Gallery, an assemblage of high-design wine bottle labels organized by theme, from 'Animals' to 'Weather.' -
This root-like decanter, Carafe No. 5, is by Etienne Meneau, designed in 2008, fabricated in 2009. -
Additional decanters by Meneau on display. -
Compiled in a display case are a bevy of wine culture ephemera, from 'Wine Diet' books to Japanese manga glorifying wine, such as this page from the 'Kami no Shizuku (Drops of God)' series, 2004-ongoing. Copyright Tadashi Agi/Shu Okimoto/Kodansha Ltd. -
The exhibition also includes new media, including video excerpts from movies and mass media and 'SPILL,' a 2009 video by Dennis Adams. Image courtesy the artist, Kent Gallery New York, and Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie Paris. Photo by David Hurst.
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