24th January 2014

I've always love the sound that is produced from the piano. Most songs that I have an instant rapport with will no doubt have piano in them somewhere. This love of the piano stems across to my love of art that incorporates piano as well. Here is an interesting piece. It is a piano created with buttons.

Upright piano 2011

Artist, Augusto Esquivel used 30,000 buttons to create it! It took him two and a half months to finish and said he measured a real upright piano to translate it into his technique. Augusto states, "For this particular piece, the most challenging part was to create the keyboard. To create it, I sculpted the same amount of white and black keys, using the same length, width and space in between, to duplicate the real object."

Upright piano 2011

He continues, "I am often obsessed with comparisons of reality and potential and the balance between them, in art: the idea of chaos in perfect order: an object seemingly solid to the eye can also be fragile and inconsistent to the touch; a common object used to create a piece of art becomes transformed into something complicated and intriguing".