Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Otello 1887, 2015
HD video (color, sound)
Duration 25:31 min
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist proof
The work takes as point of departure Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Otello which in turn takes its plot from William Shakespeare’s 1603/4 tragedy by the same name. Filmed in the gardens of the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid on occasion of the artist‘s solo exhibition entitled Splendide Hotel, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s Otello begins with what appears to be a nighttime view of the structure. Reminiscent of the famous 1851 Crystal Place by Joseph Paxton in London, it was built in 1887, the same year Verdi’s opera premiered in Milano’s Scala.
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