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Music * Art * Visual Theatre
In Karin Schäfer‘s „Pictures of an Exhibition“ every scene and „picture“ she creates is a homage to one of the great definitive artists of the 20th Century, resulting in an œuvre that transcends different artistic genres.
Bydlo - the Oxcart
The Hut of Baba Yaga
The Language of Silence
Works from
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✴Alberto Giacometti
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✴Niki de Saint Phalle
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✴Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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✴David Hockney
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✴Wassily Kandinsky
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✴Marc Chagall
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✴Andy Warhol
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✴Pablo Picasso
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✴Paul Klee
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✴Georgia O’Keefe
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✴Joan Miro
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✴Martin Kippenberger
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✴Christo und Jeanne Claude
provide the inspiration for each one of the „living pictures“ in Karin Schäfer’s project
Promenade
Pictures
In June 1874 Modest Mussorgsky wrote the piano suite „Pictures at an Exhibition“, the inspiration for which came from an exhibition of the drawings and stage set sketches by his late friend Viktor Hartmann. In this work, which represents a kind of musical stroll through the exhibition, Mussorgsky conveys the feelings and sentiments the pictures awoke within him.
Many of the melodies in the suite, like „Promenade“, „Unhatched Chicken“ or „Bydlo“, the Russian ox-cart, are now well-known across the world and have been the subject of many different arrangements, but nearly all of Hartmann’s original pictures have been lost and only live on in Mussorgsky’s music.
Karin Schäfer reverses this creative process in her production „Pictures at an Exhibition“. Because it is from the music, from its tonal colours and from the stories the separate pieces of music tell, that she creates the „pictures“. These images are new and completely different to the original ones, and in their own way very special, because they are brought to life by the music and then tell their own new stories.
Music
„Pictures at an Exhibition“ is live performed on the concert grand by one of the most promising pianists of the younger european generation, Christopher Hinterhuber.
It is also possible to perform with other pianists with only a short rehearsal. In October 2010 the show was presented with the greek pianist George Lazaridis at the Kilkis Festival.
In March 2010 the new Orchestra Version was presented together with the Izmir State Symphony Orchestra.
In June 2010 it was presented in Austria together with the Youth Symphony Orchestra Dornbirn at the Feldkirch Festival.
„A multi-layered synopsis of the main artistic movements of this century, performed in a fascinating interaction of music, art and visual theatre“
Pictures at an Exhibition was developed in collaboration with Jeunesse Österreich and to date has been performed in:
Vienna, Concert Hall (Konzerthaus)
Luxemburg, Philharmonie
Salzburg, Museum of Modern Art
Madrid, Festival Teatralia
Klagenfurt, Konzerthaus
Eisenstadt, ORF TV Studio
Long Night of Museums
St. Johann, Kaisersaal
Klagenfurt, Konzerthaus
Graz, Minoritensaal
Innsbruck, Canisianum
Gmunden, Stadttheater
Dornbirn, Spielboden
Wels, Stadtheater
Zwettl, Stadtsaal
Eisenstadt, Kulturzentrum
Izmir, Konzerthaus, together with Izmir State Symphony Orchestra
Feldkirch, Feldkirch Festival, together with Youth Symphony Orchestra Dornbirn
Dornbirn, Kulturhaus, together with Collegium Instrumentale Orchestra
Modest Mussorgsky
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Masterpieces from Picasso to Christo turned to life
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