Filtering by: Furniture
May
4
to Jul 13
Visual Art

Functional Relationships: Artist-Made Furniture / East Hampton (Group Exhibition)

This group exhibition focuses on East End artists who have produced functional furniture as an extension of their creative practices—as a means of problem-solving, as an element of designed living, and as a way to foster social spaces. Featured works by Robert Wilson include his Parzival Sofa and Chair with a Shadow, Clementine Hunter Rocker, Bessie Smith Breakfast Chair and others.

Artists featured in the exhibit include Scott Bluedorn, John Chamberlain, Liz Collins, Quentin Curry, Peter Dayton, Connie Fox, Kurt Gumaer, Mary Heilmann, Yung Jake, Donald Judd, Julian Schnabel, Karen Simon, Strong-Cuevas, Mark Wilson, Evan Yee, Nico Yektai, and Almond Zigmund.

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 12-5 PM. Visit Guild Hall’s web site for more information.

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Feb
28
to Apr 30
Visual Art

Robert Wilson: Works for the Stage / New York

Robert Wilson: Works for the Stage presents objects representing 50 years of Wilson's singular history as a theater director and designer, alongside a new design edition produced by Raisonné. The works in this exhibition include chairs, sculptures in glass, drawings, and other elements of Wilson's architectural vision for the stage.

This exhibition is organized on the occasion of Robert Wilson: Chairs, a comprehensive history spanning over five decades of Wilson's designs for the stage, published by Raisonné and August Editions and featuring over 40 original photographs by Martien Mulder.

In 1974, Robert Wilson designed a chair in industrial materials for A Letter for Queen Victoria, his first work for the stage with spoken text. Now, 50 years after the original production, Wilson has reimagined the Queen Victoria Café Chair in polished brass and plated steel, produced by Raisonné in an Edition of 10. The chair is an iconic example of Wilson’s economy of form, and a poetic juxtaposition of materials and theatrical context.

More information: https://raisonnenewyork.com

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Apr
10
6:00 PM18:00
Visual Art

Einstein on the Beach Exhibition / Nottingham (Public Preview)

This exhibition, curated by Matthew Chesney, features works by the creators of Einstein on the Beach: Lucinda Childs, Andrew De Groat, Philip Glass, Christoper Knowles and Robert Wilson.

“Einstein on the Beach is a revolutionary opera by Phillip Glass and Robert Wilson and is recognised as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th Century. Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts framed and connected by five “knee plays” or intermezzos. The opera eschews traditional narrative in favour of a formalist approach based on structured spaces, minimalist sets, an exuberantly complex score, and distinctive choreography by Lucinda Childs.
The work portrays the icon purely as a historical figure; in the absence of a storyline however, incorporate symbols from Einstein’s life within the opera’s scenery, characters, and music, representing poetic notions of spectacle, time and space.
Nearly four decades after its first staging, Backlit will reimagine the unique visual, dramatic and musical languages of Einstein on the Beach through the exhibition of props, manuscripts, stage designs and music from the original performance in 1976. The project is in partnership with Paula Cooper Gallery, and the Watermill Center, New York. Dance 4 will deliver talks and events in response to the exhibition.”
— from the BACKLIT web site

More information can be found here.

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Living Rooms / Paris
Nov
13
to Feb 17
Visual Art

Living Rooms / Paris

The Louvre Museum invites Robert Wilson, forty years after his entry on the French artistic scene with Deafman Glance.  Living Rooms reproduces Wilson’s own living and work space in Watermill (USA) in a museum room.  A rich program of performances, debates and screenings prolongs the exhibit.

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