OLIVER BEER: Oma

OLIVER BEER: Oma
@GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC - ELY HOUSE
37 DOVER STREET
LONDON W1S 4NJ
UK
12 SEP 2020 - 24 OCT 2020

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Recomposition (Four Piano Keys), 2020
Four piano keys from the artist's grandmother's piano, sectioned and set in resin; gesso
18 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 4/5 in
47 × 47 × 2 cm


Recomposition (Oma Tondo), 2020
Coloured pencils, sectioned and set in resin; gesso
12 1/5 × 12 1/5 × 2/5 in
31 × 31 × 1 cm


Recomposition (Standing Nude), 2018
Violin, sectioned and set in resin; gesso
15 7/10 × 11 4/5 × 2/5 in
40 × 30 × 1 cm


Recomposition (Books About Music), 2020
Various 20th century books about music, sectioned and set in resin; gesso
18 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 1 in
47 × 47 × 2.5 cm


Recomposition (Sotto Voce / In a Quiet Voice), 2020
Tuning fork, coloured pencils, violin fragments, book about music, metronome mechanism, artillery shell, mother of pearl, sectioned and set in resin; gesso
15 7/10 × 11 4/5 × 4/5 in
40 × 30 × 2 cm


Recomposition (Women Playing Music, after Kitagawa Utamaro), 2020
Fragments of the artist's grandmother's piano, cello, coloured pencils, paintbrush, chess pieces, domino pieces, organ pipe, metronome fragments, laughing gas canister, books about music, tobacco pipe, violin fragments, bagpipe, one-string fiddle, sectioned and set in resin; gesso


4/4 Time, 2020
Metronome, sectioned and set in resin; gesso


Recomposition (Four Piano Keys), 2020
Four piano keys from the artist's grandmother's piano, sectioned and set in resin; gesso