Robert Wilson: Spring / Summer 2022 Newsletter -- Video Portraits, Performances...................... NEW / 4.26.2022

SPRING / SUMMER 2022

Dear Friends of Robert Wilson,

Bob’s Turandot opened last night at the Houston Grand Opera, starring HGO alumna Tamara Wilson in the title role. Turandot marks Bob’s return to HGO for the first time since 1996, when he directed Four Saints in Three Acts there, and his Parsifal in 1991. Turandot runs until May 6.

ICONIC “BED SCENE” FROM EINSTEIN GOES DIGITAL

The latest revival of the original production of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s opera Einstein on the Beach (1976) was in 2012, and it toured around the world. Now it has made its entrée into the digital realm: the iconic “Bed scene”, the slow rise of a horizontal light bar into fully vertical, and its upward float out of the scene, has been minted into the first-ever EOB NFT (non-fungible token). Over the past two weeks, the 20-minute NFT was screened on 10 nights at the Kraftwerk Berlin, presented by the DAO Bright Moments. The online auction ends today, April 23, 2022, at 3 PM Eastern / 9 PM Berlin time.

For more information on the EOB NFT click here.
To view Robert Wilson’s profile on Foundation.App and to place a bid click here.

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DARRYL PINCKNEY AND ROBERT WILSON’S NEW “DORIAN”

Painter Francis Bacon catches George Dyer red-handed breaking into his artist studio. Instead of calling the police, he paints his portrait. The two become a couple. – Painter Basil Hallward is obsessed with his model Dorian Gray. Gray wishes the painting would age instead of him. – Poet Oscar Wilde is the darling of London Society – until he is sent to prison for “indecent relations” with his lover Alfred Douglas. Darryl Pinckney’s text and Robert Wilson’s production of Dorian weave these three stories into an associative narrative flow, overlapping memories, reflections and feelings.

Dorian opens on June 9 at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, starring Christian Friedel (German version), and on October 1 at the National Theater in Kaunas (Lithuanian version).

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MADAMA BUTTERFLY IN “HOMO FABER” EXHIBITION IN VENICE

This year’s edition of “Homo Faber,” a large showcase of craftsmanship in Venice, which was inaugurated in 2018 by the Michelangelo Foundation, focuses on the creative landscape of Japan. In this context, Bob has curated and designed an installation entitled WAITING with peace and darkness, focusing on Japanese art and in particular elements from his stage production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

The installation is on view until May 1 on the beautiful Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy.

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OTHER EVENTS

For details and links to the venues, please click on the event name:

Bob’s video portrait of Lady Gaga as the dead Marat in the bathtub, first exhibited at the Louvre, is on view at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, in the group exhibition The Death of Marat, from April 28 through August 7.
Before this season closes, there will be eight more performances of Bob’s new production of The Tempest at the National Theater of Bulgaria, Sofia, between May 17 and June 22.
From May 24 through September 3, Geneva’s Espace Muraille will present The Night before the Day, a retrospective exhibition featuring works by Bob that he created in the past three decades.
Bob’s Video Portraits will be exhibited in Moving Portraits, a large show in Adelaide, featuring some of the early portraits from VOOM times, as well as new works created in the last few years, from July 9 through October 3.