Robert Wilson
dal 5/5/2003 al 31/5/2003
Segnalato da
5/5/2003
Robert Wilson
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Robert Wilson has created a unique installation for Galerie Nordenhake entitled On a Clear Day You Can See Your Mother II. The work consists of dried up and cracked mud that covers the whole floor of the gallery. In a side gallery a second installation is showed, the Kafka Chair and Nickel Plate, 1992. A selection of drawings, many linked to earlier Robert Wilson's productions in Berlin, are also exhibited.
Robert Wilson has created a unique installation for Galerie Nordenhake entitled On a Clear Day You Can See Your Mother II. The work consists of dried up and cracked mud that covers the whole floor of the gallery. It seems like a desert, but also like a surrealist landscape inviting characters and props, however imaginary, to take place. It is a serene work that evokes concepts of nature, time, disappearance and memory. The title relates to an earlier video work, where a woman in a Victorian dress stands pensive at a window. She slowly picks up a knife and walks upstairs where she calmly sinks the knife into a child. Euripides' Medea comes to mind, but also psychoanalysis and its interpretation of dreams, idée fixes and emotions. In art historic terms the installation relates to Walter De Maria's The New York Earth Room, 1977, but instead of seeing a slice of nature and soil slowly taking over the "White Cube", we can see an inner psychological landscape - empty, but still imbued with a compelling narrative.
In a side gallery a second installation is showed, the Kafka Chair and Nickel Plate, 1992. A selection of drawings, many linked to earlier Robert Wilson's productions in Berlin, are also exhibited. The exhibition coincides with the opening of Büchner's Leonce and Lena at the Berliner Ensemble and his installation of the Armani exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Robert Wilson is one of the most influential directors of today. The New York Times described him as "a towering figure in the world of experimental theater and an explorer in the uses of time and space onstage. Transcending theatrical convention, he draws in other performance and graphic arts, which coalesce into an integrated tapestry of images and sounds." While known for creating highly acclaimed theatrical pieces, Wilson's work is firmly rooted in the fine arts. In the late 60's he belonged to the circle around Merce Cunningham et al. In 1971 Wilson received international acclaim for the silent "opera" Deafman Glance and his collaboration with composer Philip Glass created the landmark Einstein on the Beach in 1976. His collaborations with internationally acclaimed artists, writers, and musicians include, among many others Tom Waits and David Byrne, and the late German playwright Heiner Müller on CIVIL warS (1984), Hamletmachine (1986), and Quartet (1987).
Major Wilson exhibitions have appeared at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1991); the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1991); the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1991); and the Instituto de Valencia de Arte Moderno (1992). Most recently he created installations for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Wanås Foundation in Sweden, the Kunstindustrimuseet in Copenhagen (2000), the Vitra Design Museum in Wheil am Rhein (2001), Galeries Lafayette (2002), and for the upcoming Armani show at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie (2003). His drawings, prints, videos and sculpture are held in private collections and museums throughout the world.
Image: Robert Wilson, Three men and a chair... Hanging Chair (Freud)
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Galerie Nordenhake
Galerie Nordenhake G.m.b.H
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DE-10117 Berlin Germany
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