This October,<\/a> an acclaimed international artist will paint a large-scale, temporary fresco in San Francisco. The piece has been shown in major cities worldwide and will now appear in San Francisco, with a three-day live painting and celebration following its completion. <\/p>\nBeyond Walls in San Francisco <\/p>\n
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A previous installation of Beyond Walls. Photo by SAYPE. <\/p>\n
The public art piece, titled Beyond Walls, will take over the Great Lawn at Yerba Buena Gardens starting on October 5, 2026. The artist behind the work, Saype, will paint it live, using biodegradable materials over three days to create an image of hands clasped together. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe arts are driving our comeback. Public art like this is bringing energy and joy back to downtown\u2014giving residents and visitors another reason to come here,\u201d said Mayor Daniel Lurie. \u201cAnd in Saype\u2019s fresco, they\u2019ll see a powerful symbol of what we can build when we come together. That\u2019s the spirit driving San Francisco forward, and I can\u2019t wait to see Yerba Buena Gardens transformed this October. Thank you to our partners in France for helping bring world-class artists like Saype to San Francisco.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The fresco is temporary, made using biodegradable materials such as chalk and charcoal. Once the piece is complete, there will be a celebration at Yerba Buena Gardens with a human chain of interlocking hands around it. The celebration will take place on October 7th, at 4:30 pm. Beyond Walls originally made its debut in Paris, in front of the Eiffel Tower. The piece has traveled to 22 other locations, including Tokyo and Venice. However, San Francisco is Saype\u2019s first West Coast installation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This October, an acclaimed international artist will paint a large-scale, temporary fresco in San Francisco. The piece has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-472794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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