Infiltration homogen für Konzertflügel

Beuys, Joseph (1921-1986)


Item type:
musical instrument or object
Date of creation:
1966
Height:
100.0 cm  (39 3/8 in.)
Width:
152.0 cm  (59 13/16 in.)
Depth:
240.0 cm  (94 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
Piano, felt and red cloth

Additional titles

Infiltration homogène pour piano à queue

    Item location

  • Musée National d'Art Moderne (Paris)
    Centre Pompidou[Museum inv. no.: AM 1976-7]

Description

The artist has covered a grand piano with a thick layer of gray felt, silencing it. Crosses made of red cloth are affixed to the sides of the instrument.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Grand pianoforte [2284]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Duplaix, Sophie, ed. Collection art contemporain: La collection du Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2007). ISBN 9782844263247.

Ausoni, Alberto. Music in art. Trans. by Stephen Sartarelli (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009) 248. ISBN 9780892369652. RILM 2009-5613.

RIdIM record id

3406