Fire at Fire Station #24

100 Hoffman
Castro/Cole Valley

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Fire by Jaap (Jacob) Bongers – 1993

Jaap Bongers was born in Stein, Holland and studied at the Jan Van Eyck Academie of Fine Arts and the Stadsacademie of Fine Arts, both in Maastricht, Holland. In addition to his travels to Africa, Bongers also visited the United States for the first time in 1985 and settled permanently in San Jose in 1987.

This piece was commissioned by the San Francisco Art Commission for $14,000.

The words are ways to say fire in several other languages.

Api – Indonesian
Apoy – Ilocano/Filipino
Feu-French
Feuer-German
Fuego-Spanish
Fuoco Italian
Hapuy-MalayoPolynesian
Ignis – Latin
Lume – Galician
Moto – Swahili/Shona (Bantu)
Uguns – Latvian
Vatra – Serbian
Vuur – Dutch