MICHAEL WENDEBERG plays PIERRE BOULEZ the entire piano compositions in dialogue with the exhibition METAMORPHOSIS by AROTIN & SERGHEI - W&K PALAIS Vienna 2018
An extraordinary parcours / concert with the conductor and pianist Michael Wendeberg and the oeuvre for piano by Pierre Boulez.
The expansion of the tonal spectrum and resonance space was a major concern for Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) – as a composer, as a conductor, and as the initiator of major institutions and spaces, like the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Cite de la Musique Paris and the unique IRCAM — Research Institute for Music and Electroacoustics in the Centre Pompidou Paris. The Boulez specialist Michael Wendeberg will set new pianistic standards with his interpretation of the entire piano work of Boulez in one evening, starting with Boulez’ „ Notations“ (1945), an emblematic piece in which Boulez treats melodic rhytmic micro cells, that he shows in constant metamorphosis and transmutation all over his life, until his late orchestration version of the late 90ies. The two first Sonatas treat simultanous polyphon structures, while the third one and the late pieces appear more like sound sculptures with densified sound blocs. In contrast to this, Wendeberg will end with the Sarabande of the Partita 6 by J.S.Bach, as he previously did on the occasion of the celebrations of the 90th birthday of Boulez 2015 in the Berlin State Opera and as it is planned in Wendebergs concert next week in the new “Pierre Boulez Hall” constructed by Frank Gehry in Berlin.
Music has the capacity to show the process of creation, transformation and disappearance in every single tone, in every moment, in every idea, and in the development of every whole piece. That makes possible to show the visible part of existence in a constant relation to an invisible counter-world, a world of “silence”. This central musical principle is in fact a juxtaposition of everything we see, with the Infinity of everything that is imaginable and suggested by the language of signs, or notation. “Everything We See Could Be Also Otherwise“ (Wittgenstein Tractus / Title of a intermedial painting cycle by AROTIN & SERGHEI). The inner images or imaginations are stimulating the writing process. Once wroten, the “real” existing signs are continously transformed by our imagination in a ever subjective way. Schönberg and Webern started to create systems for free floating tone sequences… but the question remains: How far it is possible to invent an exact notation system for an inner image, a sign language, a color?Questioning these phenomenons in music and visual art, we have landed in the observation and re-creation of the basic components of images: Light Cells, that are producing on our devices each individual pixel, and so, all our language and notation. We create cycles of invented, phantastic portraits of these individual Light Cells. Like musical notes, they seem to be all identical. In reality they create infinite gradations and combinations, allowing Infinite Metamorphosis. Each musical note or sign can be more than a precise and determinated instruction for playing: a free symbol of thoughts, a departure point for imagination.
Wendebergs extraordinary art of playing shows us a combination of these aspects. He anticipate an imaginary orchestration and densification process even in each minimalistic particle of a musical cell compound. In our exhibition “Metamorphosis” we expand the systems of signs and create a dialogue with music that seems to continue and transform visual structures, and which, in the context of our pictures receives a new or additional resonance and reflection space.The music by Pierre Boulez refers for us in particular to two of our creations:
– “Mute Space”, (2008/2012/2018, work in progress), with it’s origins in our rehearsals for our project “BING!” at IRCAM – Centre Pompidou in Paris. This creation dissolves words of Samuel Beckett’s “Bing”(1966) into floating traces emerging and growing from Infinite to Infinite, crossing the vibration of two piano strings.
– “Logical Structure Of Color – Homage to Ludwig Wittgenstein” (2016), is a visual composition in which the logical space of a regular „white“ matrix of red, green and blue color cells, splits and opens itself with the overlapping of black stripes, and creates fascinating irrational color resonances. A endless space behind the logic of perception appears and extends itself in different ways from each viewing position.
This exceptional exhibition and concert–parcours through visual signs, notation systems and sound sculptures is also a continuation of our cooperation with the auction house “Artcurial”, which started in 2016 with the 1200m2 installation “Infinite Screen – The Babel Tower“ realised for Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, and with the simultaneous exhibition Light Cells at Artcurial exhibition Spaces in Vienna.
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