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William Forsythe : the fact of matter

Title

William Forsythe : the fact of matter / edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Mario Kramer.

Author

Forsythe, William, 1949-

Publication

Bielefeld : Kerber ; Frankfurt am Main : MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, [2016]
©2016

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Description

89 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm.

Summary

"The exhibition 'The Fact of Matter' marks the beginning of a new chapter in the choreographic oeuvre of William Forsythe (b. New York City, 1949) and takes a programmatic look at the threshold between the visual arts and choreography. Over the past decades, the internationally renowned artist has created an unequalled dance cosmos: Forsythe has developed ground-breaking ballet choreographies, experimental dance pieces, digital dance scores and site-specific installations that unexpectedly turn the viewers into protagonists themselves. He is considered an innovator within the practice of ballet and has influenced generations of dancers to a degree matched by virtually no other artist in the field. The oeuvre of William Forsythe has been associated with the city of Frankfurt am Main for thirty years. It was here that he founded the Ballett Frankfurt in 1984 and The Forsythe Company in 2004. He has received numerous internationally well-known awards andin 2010 was honoured with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition features large-scale installations, including several site-specific works developed especially for this occasion. Atypical characteristic of these works is the organization of movement. The visitors can move freely through their performative exhibition and thus become part of a choreographic arrangement. William Forsythe's choreographic objects grant them access to novel situations, where they themselves become players through interaction with the installations. In this exhibition, Forsythe's performative and space-related choreographic objects enter into dialogue with the museum architecture by Hans Hollein, but also masterpieces from the MMK collection. The latter were selected in close collaboration with William Forsythe according to content-related correspondences as well as formal analogies. Line, movement, sound, compositional structures and aspects of performance in space play a key role in all of these works. William Forsythe has chosen more than 40 works from the collection. A selection has been compiled in this exhibition guide"--Artist's website.

Series Statement

Kerber art

Uniform Title

Kerber art.

Alternative Title

Fact of matter

Subjects

Genre/Form

Interviews.
Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Catalog of the exhibition held at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, October 17, 2015 - March 13, 2016.

Language (note)

Parallel texts in English and German.

Call Number

JQF 16-1366

ISBN

9783735601995
3735601995

LCCN

9783735601995

OCLC

945181972

Author

Forsythe, William, 1949- artist, choreographer, interviewee.

Title

William Forsythe : the fact of matter / edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Mario Kramer.

Publisher

Bielefeld : Kerber ; Frankfurt am Main : MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, [2016]

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Americans

Series

Kerber art

Kerber art.

Language

Parallel texts in English and German.

Added Author

Gaensheimer, Susanne, editor.

Kramer, Mario, 1956- editor, interviewer.

Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

9783735601995

Research Call Number

JQF 16-1366

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