Daniel Spoerri
Trullo – Smoke is Coming From My Head
Trullo – Smoke is Coming From My Head
1995-2000
ø 200 cm, H.: 350 cm
bronze, slate
While travelling through Apuglia in 1999, Daniel Spoerri’s interest was captured by the »Trulli«, old stone huts, the purpose of which has, even today, not been fully researched. He had a similar ‘domed structure’ constructed for the Giardino to be used as a baking oven. He placed five smokestacks on the »hut«, which he modelled on a tailor’s dummy family. Casts were made with workmanlike expertise and if now fine smoke flows from the heads, it is evidence not of mental work, but rather of culinary work. The dtv lexicon (Vol.19, Munich 1975) says »Trullo – subtype of a primitive, single-roomed stone roundhouse with a dome-shaped, stone roof (..)The door is the only source of daylight. Chimneys are usually later additions.« Spoerri’s work with the idiosyncratic chimneys as a »later addition« is a nice proof of this definition.