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Robert Wilson, A House for Edwin Denby<\/em>, 2000. Photo Anders Norrsell. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Robert Wilson <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1941-2025, was born in Waco, Texas)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A House for Edwin Denby<\/em>, 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furniture, building materials, loudspeakers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

750 x 250 x 509 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With support from Rappgo AB<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Ronald Hallgren, Cecilie Manz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the exhibition WAN\u00c5S 2000<\/em>, Robert Wilson created two artworks dedicated to Edwin Denby (1903\u20131983), a prominent American poet and dance critic who ended his own life. Wilson is known as a leading artist within avant-garde theater and opera, and to approach A House for Edwin Denby is to step into a drama. The house\u2019s architecture refers to the simple building style developed by the Shaker movement in northeastern USA in the 1800s. The sound creates an ambient soundscape around the artwork, and from inside the house, Wilson\u2019s voice is reciting a fragmentary text written especially for the work. The open book inside the house is the same book that is said to have been the last one Denby read in his life. At the same time as he created the structure, Wilson also developed the work Edwin\u2019s Last Day<\/em> in one of the barns at Wan\u00e5s. The first floor of the building was covered with mud that dried and cracked during the exhibition period, and over loudspeakers came Wilson\u2019s voice, reading a text about the last day of Denby\u2019s life, written by the poet\u2019s close friend, filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Wilson, A House for Edwin Denby<\/em>, 2000. Photo Mattias Givell.<\/mark><\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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