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Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano, 2008
Loaned to
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Description
Prepared Bechstein Piano, Pianist piano
Dimensions
80.7inch
No. Elements
1
Edition
3 esemplari
Object Type
performance
Credits
©Allora & Calzadilla - Courtesy Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino Foto di Paolo Pellion - Proprietà della Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
The Artist
A performer—presumably a professional pianist—inserts his body into a
hole made inside a grand piano. The hole is large enough for his body to fit
through. The two, pianist and instrument, immediately seem to become almost a
single element, a new mythological creature endowed with human torso and arms,
ample sonorous and technological hips, and a multiplication of legs and wheels.
The performer leans his upper body forward and plays from this apparently
unnatural and forced position, with his hands behind the keyboard rather than
in front of it. The fingers’ touch on the keys produces a melody, but the hole
excavated inside the piano transforms certain passages of the music into percussive
thuds, in sharp contrast with other moments. [...]
Castello di Rivoli
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Piazza Mafalda di Savoia
10098 Rivoli (Torino)
