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Model, Parsifal

This is a Model. It is dated 2012. Its medium is laser-cut foam, resin, and paint, recreated for exhibition; staged 2012, royal danish opera, copenhagen, denmark. It is a part of the department.

“Richard Wagner conceived his final work as a ritual mass for the consecration of a stage. Over four hours of largely static drama, the audience transcends time and space through a rite of compassion. The director Keith Warner and I conceived an enormous revolving rook chess piece whose conical interior formed a new theater within Copenhagen’s opera house. We presented Parsifal’s odyssey from naivety to wisdom as a resistance to the rules of an antiquated game.”

It is credited Courtesy of Es Devlin.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin.

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