Conversation with the Wind

Conversation with the Wind
(Colloquio col Vento)
Conversation with the Wind; (Colloquio col Vento)
Artist	Pietro Consagra
Year	1962
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Steel
Dimensions	260 cm × 270 cm (104 in × 107 in × 94 5/8 in)
Location	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
	29°43′36.8″N 95°23′25.9″W

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]

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According to his daughter, Consagra proposed painting the badly rusted sculpture for restorative purposes.^[3]

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