| Conversation with the Wind (Colloquio col Vento) | |
| Artist: | Pietro Consagra |
| Type: | Sculpture |
| Material: | Steel |
| Height Imperial: | 104 |
| Width Imperial: | 107 |
| Length Imperial: | 94 5/8 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Museum: | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Conversation with the Wind (Colloquio col Vento), or simply Conversation with the Wind, is a 1962 kinetic steel sculpture by Italian artist Pietro Consagra,[1] installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's (MFAH) Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden in the U.S. state of Texas. The sculpture measures 104 × 107 × 94 5/8 in. (264.2 × 271.8 × 240.4 cm). It was exhibited in Spoleto, Italy in 1962, and purchased by MFAH in 1963.[2]
According to his daughter, Consagra proposed painting the badly rusted sculpture for restorative purposes.[3]