Sketch by Robert Wilson
Anna
The 16 tableaus visualize the last day, the 21st of November 1917, in the life of the woman Anna who went to a dinner party and never came home.
Robert Wilson creates a magical universe, a profound physical experience that entangles all your senses. Perception of time and space dissolve; Anna leaves the dinner party, other stories intercept, objects appear between dream and reality..... at the end we see a single shoe on crushed glass and a large clock on the wall..... then it starts all over again.....
Robert Wilson worked with the Museum’s collection of furniture and design objects to create the dreamlike installations that use light and sound as well as smell to create the make believe universe Anna left...... or maybe she is the angel in the night in the enclosed cylinder? ....... with Robert Wilson we are never sure...... some people were not even sure it was Robert Wilson they saw walking around on the members opening night.......
it was!
A recurring element in Robert Wilson’s theater productions are the furniture he designs himself; the exhibition includes chairs from several of Wilson's theater productions, exhibited for the first time in the Nordic countries, that have an autonomous position in Wilson’s work.
The next day everybody talked about going back again and then again...... I am going the moment the sun comes out to experience the Garden Pavilion with the golden ladders in the trees....
The installation outside in the museum garden had its own dreamlike character because of the weather...you could see people on the other side trying to wipe the dew off the windows to look out...they became part of the scenography.
P.S. Robert Wilson’s new play “Woyzeck” , another theater collaboration with Tom Waits, had it’s world premiere in Copenhagen last week.
I went to the opening of the exhibition and will go to the closing night in the theater on January 27th. The architects Henning Larsen says the best seats are the 11th row in the center....... that’s what I got... lucky me.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
The Dinner Party with 34 chairs from different centuries.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
Chairs and Birds.
The Meek girl chair, designed by Wilson, in the middle.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
Entrance to Chair Dialogue tableau.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
Construction Site.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
Alice’s Tea Party.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
The Bedroom.
Continuation....
Thanksgiving morning, I woke up to sunny skies..... In the north you take advantage of every bit of sunshine you get......I hopped in my car and went back to the exhibition to see the Garden Pavilion and to experience the exhibition alone and in daylight.
It is brilliant.....it makes you use your imagination....you try to guess what Robert Wilson had in mind..... but then you don't really care because you create your own story....
The space on the floor where Anna was lying at the opening was empty...... I asked where she was and was told that she was only there a few hours a day...... she did not come home that night!
Had to show you a few more images....... you will have to go to Copenhagen and experience the exhibition.....a nice Christmas present to yourself!
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
The Garden Pavilion at sunrise, with the golden ladders in the trees and one in the space above.....
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
A long corridor with the tall chair, made out of pipes used by plumbers, from the play Einstein on the Beach.
Wilson told me that Einstein really wanted to be a plumber.........
