By Patricia Reaney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - With pulsating sounds, stunning videos
and elaborate costumes, a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
dedicated to the work of Bjork transports visitors into the creative world of
the Icelandic musician, composer and singer.
"Bjork," which opens on Sunday and runs through
June 7, follows the artist through 20 years of her career, from her first
mature solo album "Debut" in 1993 to her latest work and a new music
installation commissioned for the retrospective.
"It's been an incredibly generous and fruitful journey
for me," Bjork, 49, said at a preview of the show on Tuesday.
Through her long, cutting-edge career, Bjork has
experimented with sounds, images, technology and themes ranging from nature to
feminism in eight albums, numerous videos and collaborations with designers,
producers and photographers, which are included in the retrospective.
"This is a huge, pioneering endeavor," said Klaus
Biesenbach, MoMA's chief curator at large. "We have one of the most
innovative and most influential contemporary artists in the area of music
embarking on this endeavor with us."
View galleryA view of dresses on display at the exhibition
'Bjork' …
A view of dresses on display at the exhibition 'Bjork'
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Three years in the making, the show is designed to be an
immersive, transformative experience and includes an augmented audio guide.
It includes unusual instruments used on Bjork's 2011 hybrid
album, Biophilia, which are displayed and programmed to play music and sounds
in the museum's lobby as well as a chronological presentation of her music
videos and an experimental sound experience called Songlines.
Songlines, with its personalized audio guide of Bjork's
music and a fictitiously biographical narrative, details her work and creative
process through her albums and the characters she created for them. It includes
costumes, photos, diaries, music and lyrics, and some of the characters she
created for them.
The feathered swan dress Bjork wore to the Academy Awards in
2001 is displayed, along with robots for the music video "All is Full of
Love," and the bell-shaped dress created by the late designer Alexander
McQueen in 2004 for the video "Who Is It?" from her
"Medulla" album.
But Biesenbach said the heart of the retrospective is a
10-minute video called "Black Lake," that was filmed over three days
last summer in the caves and lava fields of Iceland. The song will appear on
her new album, "Vulnicura."
"Our first premise basically is that this has to be an
exhibition that features primarily and makes an experience of music," he
said.
(Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy, G Crosse)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/moma-retrospective-journeys-world-icelands-bjork-215250931.html
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