Chiharu Shiota In Silence 2017 Heliogravure, Burning Grand Piano, Signed Edition of 50
Chiharu Shiota In Silence 2017 Heliogravure, Burning Grand Piano, Signed Edition of 50
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A Fire No One Can Hear
Shiota's burning piano turns memory into an image of silence: music made impossible, yet the instrument still standing. The gravure's deep blacks hold the smoke like breath.
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Described as unused and in good order, opened once for inspection and stored flat, never framed.
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A black grand piano stands in the open air with flames pouring from beneath its lid and curling across the keys: In Silence, Chiharu Shiota's 2017 heliogravure, from an edition of 50.
The Piece
The burnt piano is one of Shiota's central images. In her installations titled In Silence, a charred grand piano sits at the heart of a room woven through with black thread, and she has linked it to a childhood memory of a neighbour's house burning. The print goes back a step to the moment of the fire itself: the instrument still whole, its lacquer catching the light, smoke and flame rising like a sound no one can hear.
Heliogravure, a photogravure process etched from a photographic image, gives the sheet its velvety blacks and soft, smoky greys. The image sits on a generous margin of warm white paper with a deckled edge.
The sheet is offered as signed and numbered in pencil, as the description states; the signature shows at the lower right and the number at the lower left, partly masked in the photographs. It is described as opened once to check its condition and then stored flat and unframed.
Details
- Artist: Chiharu Shiota
- Title: In Silence
- Year: 2017
- Medium: Heliogravure on paper
- Edition: 50, as described
- Signature: Offered as signed and numbered in pencil
- Sheet: 54 x 69 cm (21.3 x 27.2 in)
- Frame: Unframed sheet
- Condition: Unused, stored flat
Condition
- Described as unused and in good order, never framed.
- Opened once for inspection and stored flat since.
Condition grade A (excellent, very light signs of age) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Signature and edition are given as the description states them. Gravure blacks scuff easily: handle with clean cotton gloves, frame behind UV-filtering glazing with acid-free mounts, and hang away from sun and damp.
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