Robert Wilson’s video portraits are fitting for an era of globalised culture and digital media.
Germany’s all-time literary giant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, once suggested to Caspar David Friedrich he should paint landscapes that systematically depicted each type of cloud identified in a famous treatise. Friedrich, by all accounts, was horrified at the suggestion. Being attracted by the freedom and mutability of clouds, he resisted the idea of placing them in neat categories. To reduce nature to a mere mechanism was to diminish the power and glory of the Creator.
Born in Texas, and based in New York, Wilson is in constant demand in Europe, where he spends a large part of every year. He never made it to Adelaide last week, being holed up in Berlin where he is recovering from a back operation.
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