Capitol 1 Giaco Guitar Sculpture (05/100)

$15,000.00

H: 75″   W: 27″    D: 12″   |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST

The creation of renowned French-American multimedia artist and sculptor Pascal Giacomini, Giaco Guitars™ sculptures are uniquely playable works of art highly prized for both their musical and artistic merits. Technically, they are hybrid oil-can, solid body electric guitars.

This Capitol Guitar sculpture is made from a medium two-gallon can from the Atlantic Refining Co. in Philadelphia, which became part of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil until it closed in 2019. This is item number 7 out of an eventual collection of 100 Giaco Guitars™ made by the artist. Each item in the collection is a one-of-a-kind, impossible to reproduce creation.

Specs for this Guitar Sculpture include:

  • Honduras Mahogany wood resonating chamber assembled under pressure (a signature Giacomini invention)
  • Custom shop Telecaster neck
  • Lindy Fralin pickups
  • Gabriel Tenorio Strings
  • Fender Custom Shop neck
  • Hipshot Grip-Lock tuners
  • Modified Telecaster gear
  • Guitar is plek’d (expertly aligned for optimum playability)

Testimonial:

“The guitar is comfortable at high velocity and gives you freedom to experiment. Major tone. You feel the vibration in your body stronger and different than an acoustic guitar. Unusual low bar access. A different ergonomic allows for an extended finger picking. An electric guitar that you can play sitting down.”

–Denys Marco, Musician

Description

Following the inspiration of his work as an artist and award-winning documentary filmmaking in the slums of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Pascal Giacomini set out on an audacious new experiment: using the material form and aesthetics of vintage American oil cans from the 1940s and 50s to fashion elegant guitars with perfect pitch. This endeavor of “recycling leftovers of American capitalism into art and music” would be remarkable for any artist. But considering that Giacomini neither reads music nor plays an instrument (and is functionally tone deaf), it is an especially stunning undertaking. Each guitar combines a vintage oil can with a proprietary resonating chamber lined with either mahogany or sweetly tonal Swamp Ash wood, custom Telecaster necks and a novel fabrication technique without the use of either glue or nails. The result is a masterwork guitar creation, delivering absolute continuity of sound, with a signature tone, sustain and resonance, and total originality of presentation.

As playable works of musical art, these guitars stand out as perhaps the first significant new hybrid guitar concept since Leo Fender and Les Paul unveiled the solid-body electric guitar around 1950. Each is suspended in a unique mount designed and sculpted by Giacomini from which it can easily be removed to play. The unique flat bases of the guitars allow them to stand freely without a stand in a performance setting or proudly displayed in a home environment. Giaco Guitars are a limited series of up to 100 original, numbered guitars already attracting much attention from leading musicians, guitar aficionados and art collectors alike. One of the guitars was recently featured in the 2023 exhibition Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and showcased at the famous Guitar Center in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard in the summer of 2024.

Additional information

Dimensions 11 × 6 × 40 in
Place of Origin

USA

Period

Contemporary

Materials and Technique

Metal, Wood, Mixed Media

Dimensions (inches)

Guitar Ht: 40” W: 11” D: 6” Sculpture Mount: Ht: 70” W: 16” D: 12”

Dimensions (metric)

Guitar Ht: 93.38cm W: .5.9cm D: .15.24cm Sculpture Mount Ht: 13.97cm W: 5.08cm. D: 2.54cm

Condition

Excellent

Item Number

Capitol Guitar, 05/05

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