Exhibition ‘WOOD(S)’: opening
Opening of the WOOD(S) exhibition
The group exhibition ‘WOOD(S)’ focuses on the theme of ‘wood’. This important material, which we harvest from the forests and which has been used since time immemorial to create everyday objects and build houses. Wood is also an essential material for creating works of art. We will be presenting a selection of these, in their natural state or transformed. We will also be exploring the symbolism of wood as a living material and as a vessel of memory.
Musical performance by Ecchoing Green: a musical interpretation of William Blake’s poetry
In 1789, the English poet and artist William Blake published ‘Songs of Innocence’, a collection of illustrated poems celebrating the world of childhood, purity, faith and harmony with nature. Through simple, musical language, Blake expressed an optimistic and luminous vision of existence.
Five years later, in 1794, he published ‘Songs of Experience’, which complements and transforms the first collection. This time, Blake depicts a world marked by injustice, suffering and the loss of innocence.
Blake thus presents “the two opposing states of the human soul”.
Ecchoing Green is a duo that sings these poems by William Blake. Two voices, one female and one male, are accompanied by a guembri (a North African percussive bass) and percussion. The music and melodies are original compositions. The two voices singing the poems rise with the guembri, which conveys the depth and beauty of the words through its deep, resonant tone and engages the body with its spellbinding, percussive rhythms.
A teaser:
More information about this event will follow.
