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Bookmark or Share- ROBERT WILSON: IT’S ABOUT TIME - ArtforumWHEN ROBERT WILSON’S WORK first appeared internationally it was generally seen from a single and limited viewpoint—as a return to the image. Wilson was understood as a proponent of two-dimensional theater, of theater to be looked at only.
- TWO CHAIRS AND A BED: ROBERT WILSON - ArtforumLAYERS OF RETROSPECTION—the act or process of surveying the past—are implicit in Robert Wilson’s sculptures, which allude both to world history and to the histories of furniture and architecture. Furthermore, Wilson’s objects sometimes have their own histories as props designed for stage projects.
- ANN WILSON (1931–2023) - ArtforumWilson was known for works in which she employed quilts as canvases, painting abstract forms upon their surfaces and thus bringing a form typically associated with craft into the realm of fine art. She was the last surviving member of her fabled cohort, who included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, and Lenore Tawney.
- Robert WilsonLoosely based on H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, Robert Wilson and Lou Reed’s romantic Time Rocker tells the story of the wayward Dr. Procopious, who takes off on a journey from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and back again pursued by the young lovers Nick and Priscilla. Constructed of thirty pristine scenes with original music ...
- FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS - ArtforumRobert Wilson directed a glacially slow production, and Mark Morris created an ebullient dance piece with singers and orchestra in the pit. The recent San Francisco production of Four Saints by Ensemble Parallèle was billed as An Opera Installation. It would present not only Thomson’s truncated “Oratorio” version but also a sort of ...
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