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Study, Die Tote Stadt, 2010

This is a Study. It is dated 2010. Its medium is cardstock, foam core, and 3d-printed acrylic; staged 2010, finnish national opera, helsinki, finland . It is a part of the department.

“Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s 1920 opera Die Tote Stadt is a meditation on grief for a lost loved one. Director Kasper Holten and I framed the protagonist’s grief within a vast aperture that revealed a miniature recreation of Bruges, Belgium, with its brain-like maze of medieval streets. The protagonist appeared trapped.”

It is credited Courtesy of Es Devlin.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin.

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