Sound Work Location: The Menil Collection, Houston, Dimensions: 4 x 4 meters.
Interior and exterior surroundings of Dia:Beacon's Reggio Galleries in Beacon, New York, from five minutes before each hour. Currently from 9:55 AM through 7:55 PM daily.
Sound Figure, 2007
As you enter The Menil Collection through its main entrance, you may become aware of a sound, or more precisely a sound shape: quite literally a configuration of sound in space. Not louder than the noises you were (probably) unaware of before, not sudden or alarming, but distinct—a volume of sound redefining the passageway into the museum. The source of this elusive, yet spatially contained, aural field is Max Neuhaus’ Sound Figure, 2007. Commissioned by The Menil Collection, this work flanks the walkway about twenty feet before the doors to the main entrance.
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2008 “Max Neuhaus at Menil.
Exhibitions / 2008 - Drawings, “Max Neuhaus: “Circumscription Drawings” at The Menil Collection Houston TX, May 4 - August 10.
Bibliography / Interviews / 2008 - Conversation with Max Neuhaus, Lynne Cooke, Josef Helfenstein director of the Menil Collection, Houston, Saturday, May 3.