1983
(Untitled) Villa Celle, Pistoia, Italy 1983

Sound Work Reference:
Location: Villa Celle, Pistoia, Italy. Dimensions: 120 x 60 meters
Extant: 1983–1990

The sound installations, completed in the summer of 1983, is at the Villa Celle, near a small Tuscan city called Pistoia. It is an outdoor work. Dense shrubbery hides sound-generating equipment that Neuhaus actually tucks away beneath metal grills or behind the walls of buildings. Yet the grounds of the Villa Celle are not as different from an urban sculpture garden as they look at first glance. The Villa's glades and lawns provide sites to a number of works by contemporary sculptors; further, this is a picturesque garden laid out in the 19th century with the intention of turning a stretch of terrain into a work of art. Setting aside its physical form for a moment, in order to consider the garden as an art-world institution, one could say that its relationship to the sculpture it contains is much like that of a museum building to the works it exhibits. As a consequence, Neuhaus proceeded much as he often has before.

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