Andrea Büttner
Piano Stool

, 2015

Silkscreen in 4 colors, on 160 g/m2 Fabriano Design 5

Signed by the artist

47.5 x 62.5 cm (24 x 25.1 in)

Edition of 25 + XX

FAM-E: ABU-16-1458552498-X-25

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About Andrea Büttner

Andrea Büttner often uses religious themes in her wide-ranging work, from depicting the traditions of nuns and monks in northern Italy in a series of woodcuts to a video piece documenting life of the members of a Carmelite convent in west London and the handcrafted objects they produce there. Deeply influenced by arte povera, Büttner interrogates notions of poverty in her pieces, resulting in exhibitions like Beggars and iPhones at the… Read more

About the artwork

Büttner has remarked that throughout art history—from Joseph Beuys to Nam June Paik—men have destroyed pianos to symbolize the death of bourgeois culture—a violent last gesture in the face of its end. Her object Piano Stool and eponymous silkscreen are a gentle response to this—a “wistful reminder of the grand piano that once was”. Büttner‘s visual economy in this print is striking, as curator Aram Moshayedi states: “Büttner‘s prints instead speak of slowness… insisting on a modesty of means seemingly at odds with the demands of the global art world.”