![]() When she was told about the 2022 installation titled WELCOME in San Francisco, Mattern says, "I was very upset, because I was like, my god, this is my work!"īen Davis, the founder of Illuminate the Arts, tells KPIX that WELCOME has a "power and a potency, a context of San Francisco" and he says Mattern is "wrong" to call this plagiarism. "I wanted to do a work that had everything to do with inclusion and togetherness." ![]() "I just wanted to do a work that had nothing to do with division," Mattern tells KPIX. Left: Illuminate's 'WELCOME' Right: Mattern's 'Global Rainbow' and European cities, and she tells KPIX this week that she was hoping to bring it to San Francisco at some point. Mattern's website is full of images of Global Rainbow installed in multiple U.S. The rainbow lasers are back this year, and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is scheduled to flip the switch to turn them on again Friday night, as part of a free gathering celebrating the piece's re-installation for Pride.īut Mattern says this is just a copy of her work, a piece called Global Rainbow that she created following the first inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009. The rainbow laser beams originated down by the Ferry Building and hovered over Market Street for miles, aimed at the pink triangle installation on Twin Peaks - though through the fog last year you couldn't necessarily see the beams all the way up Market. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's called WELCOME, and as far as San Francisco was concerned, this was a first-of-its-kind piece of public art that went up for just three nights over Pride Weekend in 2022. She says that Illuminate the Arts plagiarized her work in creating their similar Market Street installation for Pride last year. Yvette Mattern, a New York- and Berlin-based visual artist, created a rainbow laser installation over a decade ago in New York City, and she has brought it to over a dozen cities since then. ![]()
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