ART PIANO
Autunno is a restored 1950s piano transformed into a lighting installation.
A missing leg is replaced by an iron stool with hand-stitched recovered leather, while a coffee tree rises from the right side, carrying a sewn-leather electrical cable and a glass lampshade. The exposed hammers reveal the raw mechanism of the piano.
Created for the International Museum of Music on the occasion of In Mobile Carta, an installation of origami and interactive works developed in collaboration with Nipponica. Transparent threads covered with origami butterflies were connected to the piano’s bare hammers: when played, the movement set the thousand butterflies in motion, suggesting a suspended flight between light and shadow.
Autunno currently lives in Bologna.
WIDTH 140 cm 55 in
DEPTH 80 cm 31.5 in
HEIGHT 205 cm 80.7 in
Autunno is a restored 1950s piano with an iron stool, a coffee tree and a sculptural lighting system.
Autunno as exhibited in 2014, with 5,000 origami butterflies activated by the piano hammers.
Electrical system: hollowed into the trunk, closed and carved with no sign of intervention visible.
Hardware: exposed hammers reveal the raw musical anatomy of the piano.
Lamp: glass lampshade to light the instrument intimately.
Position: the light can be positioned freely, guided by the branches of the coffee tree.
