Painted welded steel, 36 x 132 x 43, 1999.
A fanfare is the flourish on trumpets that announces someone’s arrival, sounded before the person appears. The sculpture sets up the place that announcement is made for, and it supplies the horns without any sound. It lies low along the floor, eleven feet long and three feet high, like the front edge of a stage.
At the left a broad curved plate cut as a sector of a circle sweeps outward like a fan. Its scooped, widening profile is the flared bell of a horn laid on its side, with a short tube standing at its corner. At the right a long cylinder lies on the floor, open at one end and reading as a trumpet that has been set down. A short flight of steps climbs between them to a platform, with a half-round tread jutting forward at its foot and a low curved rail running along its left side. The horns stand at the two ends and the steps stand between them, so the announcement comes from both sides of the place being announced.
A fanfare is sounded for an arrival, and the arrival hasn’t happened. The steps are clear, the horns are aimed outward, and the platform at the top is empty.
