《感觉的剖析》丨John Pawson

John Pawson

L’Anatomie de la Sensation

Opéra Bastille

2011

This second collaboration with McGregor draws on the spatial themes of Chroma,

but passes them through new filters — the artist Francis Bacon’s ‘Blood on Pavement’ and a piece of music inspired by the painting, ‘Blood on the Floor’, composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Intervention on a massive scale renders the stage a triptych. Two pivoting vertical elements provide the means both to manipulate perspective and to frame spatial environments of shifting magnitude and intimacy. As with Chroma, this base canvas is susceptible to transformation through the application of light. Screens of fabric scrim used in one of the ballet’s eight sections develop the theme of manipulated perspectives,

blurring the dancers’ bodies into a suggestive semblance of brushstrokes.

Project Team

Mark Treharne

Photography

Richard Davies