Like “New York New York,” “Sinfonia Torinese” is an auditory homage to a city, in this case the Piedmotese city of Turin where it was first performed at Guido Costa Projects in September 2004. Fuelled by the chromatographic breakdown of Turin's most enduring export, Carpano's aperitif Punt e Mes, the music of “Sinfonia Torinese” was produced by 14 taxidermied songbirds singing through minute whistles mounted in their beaks accompanied by a rare Italian automatic Racca grand piano playing a specially prepared score of Giovanni Pastrone's 1914 classic film Cabiria. On view at the gallery will be a selection of objects and new works related to the original “Sinfonia Torinese” installation. The Christine Burgin Gallery has published a book by Paul Etienne Lincoln, “Sinfonia Torinese,” and an edition of the fourteen songbirds which made up the original installation. Each songbird is mounted in a glass bell jar with a hunter's whistle placed in its beak. Upon raising the glass dome, each bird sings it's unique song, accompanied, as in the original performance, by the sound of the Racca grand piano playing music from the original film score of Cabiria.

Paul Etienne Lincoln born in London in 1959. He lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include The Metropolis of Metaphorical Intimations, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2003; Die Berliner Zuckerbärin, Museum Folkwang, Essen, 2004; Preludes, the complete editions: 1984-2004, Alexander and Bonin, New York, 2004; Sinfonia Torinese, Guido Costa Projects, Turin, 2004 and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, 2006.

For more information please contact the Catherine Ecclestone at the Christine Burgin Gallery 212 462 2668 or gallery@christineburgin.com.

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