The Sound of Night explained

The Sound of Night
Other Language 1:Italian
Other Title 1:Il Rumore della Notte
Image Upright:1.3
Artist:Mimmo Paladino
Type:Sculpture
Material:Bronze
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
Museum:Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
City:Houston
Owner:Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Sound of Night (Italian: Il Rumore della Notte)[1] is an outdoor 1986 bronze sculpture by Italian artist Mimmo Paladino, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's (MFAH) Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to MFAH, the work illustrates the artist's "[revisit to] the disquieting sensibility of Breton and his contemporaries, tapping into both cultural archetypes and the language of dreams "[2] It was donated to the museum by Alice and Timothy Sharma.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mimmo Paladino, The Sound of Night (Il Rumore della Notte), 1986. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. October 27, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151219010125/https://prv.mfah.org/sculpturegarden/artworks.asp?pid=3&aid=5. December 19, 2015.
  2. Web site: Artworks: Surrealism and Biomorphism. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. October 27, 2015.