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Prepared Piano for Movers (Haussmann) can be understood as an embodied score for the heroic human effort taken to lift a baby grand up six flights of stairs to the bourgeois home it is destined for. It has drawn comparisons to Caillebotte’s painting The Floor Scrapers, 1875- a depiction, rudely realistic for its time, of three shirtless Parisian workers preparing the wooden floor of what appears to be a beautiful Haussmannian residence. Like the painting, Mesiti’s work highlights and dramatizes the inherent grace and invention of everyday working life.
Resource: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
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