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Sons de mélèze

Title
Sons de mélèze / Giuseppe Penone.
Author
Penone, Giuseppe
Publication
  • [Suresnes, France] : [Galerie 8 + 4 / Bernard Chauveau], 2015.
  • [Villeurbanne, France] : [URDLA]
Supplementary Content
  • Publisher's description
  • Video showing printing of the work

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Still imageBy appointment only Spencer Coll. French 2015 16-69Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Additional Authors
  • Penone, Giuseppe.
  • Bernard Chauveau éditeur, publisher.
  • URDLA, centre international de l'estampe, printer.
Description
1 print in 1 box : woodcut, white on black; image 20 x 508 cm, sheet 38 x 538 cm rolled to 38 x 89 cm, box 42 x 93 x 17 cm
Summary
  • "Following his performance Transcription musicale de la structure des arbres, which was shown in Ardèche (France) in 2011 and for which Penone had recorded the musical structure of different trees' essences, he decided to give it a physical incarnation. He took a 5 meter long beam of mélèze (larch) wood and engraved it with the tree's partition [i.e. score]. From this matrix, he then created an etching-print, or xylography, of an unprecedented magnitude"--Publisher's website.
  • Printed on a single sheet of 300 g watercolor paper with deckled edges. Image represents the transcription in musical notes of the sound made by a larch tree when struck by Penone with a rubber mallet as part of his project Transcription musicale de la structure des arbres, 2011.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Artists' books – France – 21st century.
  • Scrolls (Visual works) – France – 21st century.
  • Sheet sizes (Paper) – 15ʺ x 212ʺ.
  • Plexiglas (TM)
Note
  • Edition of 20 copies.
  • Title and name of artist from case; date from artist's inscription on print. Publisher and printer information from publisher's website, viewed August 31, 2016, and linked video, "Tirage de la gravure Sons de mélèze de Giuseppe Penone à l'atelier Urdla."
  • The project also produced a series of 7 engravings representing the artist's impression of 7 of the trees and their characteristic sounds, and a score transcribing the sound of each of 14 trees in conventional musical notation. These were published separately in 2012, both under the title Transcription musicale de la structure des arbres, respectively by Bernard Chaveau's imprints Galerie 8 + 4 and Couleurs contemporaines; the score was reissued in 2015. The engravings were issued in a wooden box; the score was issued in book form together with reproductions of the engravings and an audio disc containing the actual sounds. Audio disc is labeled: Giuseppe Penone: Traversées--14 arbres, 2012. See publisher's website for further details.
Binding (note)
  • Housed in a light brown linen-covered box. Both ends of the print are rolled on clear Plexiglas tubes (38 cm x 10 cm in diameter); center portion of print, with the artist's inscription, is revealed beneath a Plexiglas shield (40 x 65 x 6 cm) when box cover is removed. One end of the box falls down, permitting the print to be partially unrolled for display without removing it from the box.
Call Number
Spencer Coll. French 2015 16-69
OCLC
957567193
Author
Penone, Giuseppe, artist, woodcutter.
Title
Sons de mélèze / Giuseppe Penone.
Publisher
[Suresnes, France] : [Galerie 8 + 4 / Bernard Chauveau], 2015.
Manufacturer
[Villeurbanne, France] : [URDLA]
Type of Content
still image
notated music
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
roll
sheet
volume
Local Note
Spencer Coll. copy is no. 11/20, signed by the artist and inscribed in lower center of print: "Sons de mélèze, 2015."
Binding
Housed in a light brown linen-covered box. Both ends of the print are rolled on clear Plexiglas tubes (38 cm x 10 cm in diameter); center portion of print, with the artist's inscription, is revealed beneath a Plexiglas shield (40 x 65 x 6 cm) when box cover is removed. One end of the box falls down, permitting the print to be partially unrolled for display without removing it from the box.
Local Note
Spencer Coll. copy is accompanied by the illustrated book containing score and audio disc: Penone, Giuseppe. Transcription musicale de la structure des arbres. [Suresnes, France] : Couleurs contemporaines : Bernard Chauveau, édition, [2012, reprinted 2015]. Cataloged separately.
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Publisher's description
Video showing printing of the work
Place of Publication
France Suresnes.
France Villeurbanne.
Added Author
Penone, Giuseppe. Transcription musicale de la structure des arbres.
Bernard Chauveau éditeur, publisher.
URDLA, centre international de l'estampe, printer.
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. French 2015 16-69
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