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    "title": "Muller Van Severen presents \u2018Pianos\u2019, a new series of functional sculptures at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Rome",
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    "body": "<p>Tim Van Laere Gallery presents <em>Pianos</em>, Muller Van Severen&rsquo;s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition brings together seven unique pieces with glossy lacquered surfaces, blurring the boundaries between furniture, sculpture and musical instruments. Their silhouettes evoke the piano, yet none can be played. Freed from their original purpose, they take on new functions as cabinets, tables, benches or wall-mounted sculptures.</p><blockquote>&lsquo;The piano has long fascinated us as an object. Its deep, glossy lacquer, its curves and sharp transitions, its almost architectural presence in a space. Even when silent, a piano possesses a particular sense of grandeur. At the same time, there is something strange about an object so magnificent, designed around a function that remains inaccessible to so many people who cannot play it.&rsquo; <br>\u200b&mdash; <strong>Muller Van Severen</strong></blockquote><p style=\"text-align: left\">With <em>Pianos</em>, Muller Van Severen explores the tension between musical instrument and sculpture. What happens when a piano is separated from music? What if it could be given a new purpose, accessible even to those who cannot play it? Its familiar silhouette is deconstructed, distorted and reassembled. The resulting objects are no longer pianos, yet they have not entirely lost their original identity.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">The title <em>Pianos</em> refers not only to the musical instrument but also to the Italian word <em>piano</em>, meaning a level, plane or floor. The shelves and horizontal surfaces that make up the works form small architectural structures composed of different <em>piani</em>. The piano thus becomes a play of volumes, levels and functions. This layering extends throughout the exhibition, where the floor, walls and varying heights come together to create a spatial composition.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">Six of the seven works are topped with an opaline glass sphere. Where the instrument once produced sound, it now emits light. One sensory dimension gives way to another. The works evoke the intimate atmosphere of a late-night jazz club: dimly lit interiors, gleaming surfaces, soft lighting and the melancholy of Chet Baker&rsquo;s music.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">This transformation also echoes the work of Marcel Duchamp, in which everyday objects acquire new meanings when removed from their familiar contexts. Yet these are not ready-mades in the traditional sense. Rather than simply relocating an existing object, Muller Van Severen reinvents its form and function. The piano remains recognisable, even as its meaning shifts.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">The surrealist world of Ren&eacute; Magritte also resonates throughout the series. His lanterns, nocturnal lights and enigmatic objects suggest a reality that feels at once familiar and impossible, a world in which ordinary things seem to follow different rules.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">The luminous spheres in <em>Pianos</em> embody a similar ambiguity. They give the objects an additional function while lending them a dreamlike quality, as though these pieces of furniture belonged to a world almost identical to our own, yet one in which objects behave slightly differently.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">With <em>Pianos</em>, Muller Van Severen continues to explore the boundaries between art and design, between function and imagination, between furniture and sculpture. The piano has fallen silent, but its presence remains. Its silhouette, its lustre and its monumentality endure. Only its function has changed.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><hr /><p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Images</strong> (download <a href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/m0e3evmryadl5wmv7i8oz/AKiYSEh699r8T-MthThWoZg?rlkey=2h8o75f7hlbmlgyzyr9jo4ia5&amp;st=78v86p8k&amp;dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here</a> &ndash; &copy; Frederik Vercruysse)</p><div\n    id='gallery-a1e2cb2a-a81f-4cf6-8c56-1141bf6eff46'\n    class='release-content-gallery release-content-gallery--layout-contained'\n    data-component='chromatic-gallery,image-zoom-popup'\n    data-chromatic-gallery-padding='S'\n    data-chromatic-gallery-thumbnail-size='M'\n    data-chromatic-gallery-captions='data:application/json,true'\n    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