Showing posts with label Eija-Liisa Ahtila. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eija-Liisa Ahtila. Show all posts

October 5, 2009

Exhibition, "Performance/Art": Shonibare, Ahtila et Al. at the DMA

Opening on Oct. 8, and including

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s film Un ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball), based on Giuseppe Verdi’s opera of the same name . . . ; Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s quietly intense and atmospheric evocation of an ill-at-ease mind, the three-screen film work Talo/The House; a new installation work by Dallas-based artists Frances Bagley and Tom Orr based on the spectacular sets and costumes they designed for a 2006 Dallas Opera production of Verdi’s Nabucco; . . . a selection of Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca’s powerful paintings and drawings based on album covers and seating charts of major theaters and opera houses; and David Altmejd’s spectacular sculpture, The Eye, . . . created in conjunction with a recent Metropolitan Opera production of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic.
Through Mar. 21, 2010. More at the DMA; or for more on Shonibare, see my previous post.