The LAC pays a tribute to Robert Wilson, an eclectic American artist who, like few others, is capable of traversing the entire landscape of the arts, while faithfully maintaining the unity of his poetics. Wilson is the protagonist of our end-of-year programming with three events designed to explore in depth his exceptional artistic range: a site-specific installation, a meeting with the public, and the performance Relative Calm, which celebrates his reunion with the choreographer Lucinda Childs.
Robert Wilson, one of the world’s most multifaceted and innovative contemporary artists, interweaves different languages - theatre, sculpture, installation, architecture, light, drawing, gestures, movement, dance, music and sound – and gives life to a unique and unequivocal style all under the name of total art. In his video portraits, as in his theatre, the action is the outcome of an essential reduction of gestural and verbal language: a minimal process that is made iconic by the slowed-down and ritually repetitive gestures.
