Robert Wilson (director)

Robert " Bob" Wilson ( born October 4, 1941 in Waco, Texas ) is an American film director, playwright, painter, lighting designer, set designer, video artist and architect.

Life

With the help of the Byrd Hoffman dancer he could successfully overcome a 1958 speech impediment. Wilson studied business, then architecture and stage design. Working with disabled children Even while studying, he was very important. This culminated in 1968 in the founding of the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds in New York City and the adoption of a deaf boy.

In 1966, Wilson made ​​his theater performances attracted attention in New York. In addition to his theater work Wilson has worked as a painter, draftsman and designer.

At the Shiraz Festival ( Iran) Wilson's week-long piece of Ka mountain and terrace guardenia 1972 was performed. In 1976, in Avignon the premiere of his opera Einstein on the Beach with music by Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs as chief choreographer and dance soloist. In the same year he had in the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York his first solo exhibition. From the mid- 1980s, he collaborated on several projects with Heiner Müller, whom he had met in 1977 on his second voyage to America. Both influenced the work of the other term. Robert Wilson is a board member of the International Heiner Müller Society.

1993 Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale for the installation Memory / Loss with Hans Peter Kuhn. In December 2005 he was awarded the contract for the Mozart Year 2006, a permanent exhibition in the Salzburg birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to create. In it, he combines original exhibits with their own work.

"The responsibility of the artist is not to give answers. It is to ask questions. "

Productions

Film

  • Absolute Wilson. 2006 documentary on the work and life of Robert Wilson of Katharina Otto - Bernstein ( the film also publish a book of the same title - the film was shown at the Berlin Film Festival 2006) - also released as DVD
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