Oliver Beer DIABOLUS IN MUSICA, from the series Aural Architecture, 2014

Oliver Beer DIABOLUS IN MUSICA, from the series Aural Architecture, 2014

wood, cement, sound system
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More works by Oliver Beer

Oliver Beer, Recomposition (Rudiments of Music), 2023
Oliver Beer
Recomposition (Rudiments of Music), 2023
Books, mother of pearl, artificial pearls, clock mechanism, violin bows, broken ceramic, musical scores, horsehair, vinyl, color pencils, piano key, laughing gas canister; resin, black pigment.
130 x 130 x 3.3 cm
Oliver Beer, Resonance Painting (Apricots), 2022
Oliver Beer
Resonance Painting (Apricots), 2022
Pigment on canvas
130 x 130 cm
Oliver Beer, Recomposition (All Creatures Great and Small), 2022
Oliver Beer
Recomposition (All Creatures Great and Small), 2022
Book (All Creatures Great And Small by James Herriot), Anselm Kiefer print, piano hammer, piano string, dominoes, chess piece (pawn), reading glasses, playing cards, violin bow, thermometer, wristwatch, colouring pencils, pearl earring, audio cassette, pearls, sheet music, ribbon, feathers, horsehair, violin, hemp rope and other objects from the artist’s family; resin, black pigment.
74 x 47 cm (29.13 x 18.5 in)
Oliver Beer, Resonance Painting (Tapestry), 2022
Oliver Beer
Resonance Painting (Tapestry), 2022
Pigment on canvas
150 x 150 cm
Oliver Beer, Resonance Painting (Short Ride in a Fast Machine), 2021
Oliver Beer
Resonance Painting (Short Ride in a Fast Machine), 2021
Charcoal on canvas
121 x 91 x 4 cm
Oliver Beer, Resonance Painting (West Coast), 2022
Oliver Beer
Resonance Painting (West Coast), 2022
Pigment on canvas
100 x 75 cm
Oliver Beer, Oma's Music, 2020
Oliver Beer
Oma's Music, 2020
Pianola with ink on paper score, framed
Score: 113 x 83 x 4 cm
Pianola: dimensions variable
Oliver Beer, Recomposition (Orpheus and Eurydice) (2020); Thaddaeus Ropac
Oliver Beer
Recomposition (Orpheus and Eurydice), 2020
Violins, oud, laughing gas canisters, mother of pearl, sectioned and set in resin; gesso
156 x 110 x 3 cm
Oliver Beer, Recomposition (Women Playing Music, after Kitagawa Utamaro) (2020); Oma at Thaddaeus Ropac London Ely House
Oliver Beer
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, bag pipe, one-string fiddle, sectioned and set in resin; gesso.
Open: 132.5 x 100 x 3.9 cm
Closed: 132.5 x 50 x 7.8 cm
Oliver Beer, Household Gods (Grandmother) (2019); Thaddaeus Ropac
Oliver Beer
Household Gods (Grandmother), 2019
16 vessels, 2 speakers, 18 plinths
380 x 420 x 600 cm
Oliver Beer, Reanimation (Baloo Stripped Bare) (2019); Thaddaeus Ropac
Oliver Beer
Reanimation (Baloo Stripped Bare), 2019
4 channel immersive video installation with sound, looped
Dimensions variable
Oliver Beer, Recomposition (Hallelujah Junction), 2019
Oliver Beer
Recomposition (Hallelujah Junction), 2019
Egyptian predynastic black topped redware c.3100 BC, Chinese porcelain, Victorian terracotta; sectioned and set in resin
Part 1: 74 x 47 x 2.2 cm (29.13 x 18.5 x 0.87 in)
Part 2: 74 x 47 x 2.2 cm (29.13 x 18.5 x 0.87 in)
Part 3: 74 x 47 x 2.4 cm (29.13 x 18.5 x 0.94 in)
Oliver Beer, Vessel Orchestra, 2019
Oliver Beer
Vessel Orchestra, 2019
Installation of 32 vessels from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection
Met Breuer, New York
Oliver Beer, Oma's Kitchen Floor, 2017
Oliver Beer
Oma's Kitchen Floor, 2017
Linoleum
511 x 350 cm
Installation view, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Oliver Beer, Making and Breaking Tristan, 2016
Oliver Beer
Making and Breaking Tristan, 2016
Site-specific installation for Polyphonies exhibition
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Oliver Beer, Call to Sound, 2015
Oliver Beer
Call to Sound, 2015
Site-specific performance to coincide with the Istanbul Biennale
Kiliç Ali Pasa Hamam, Istanbul
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