The Legend Robert Wilson R.I.P.
Robert Wilson Video Portraits as featured in the IMAGE edition. Images courtesy of Robert Wilson.
The Laboratory Arts Collective regrets to inform its members of the passing of Robert M. Wilson, artist, theater and opera director, architect, designer, visual artist, and founder of The Watermill Center. Robert died peacefully at Water Mill, New York, at the age of 83, after a brief debilitating illness. In true Robert Wilson spirit he continued to work until the end.
His artistic legacy is immense and will live on for many generations. We were honoured to work with him on the IMAGE edition of THE LAB MAG when we featured his video portraits.
Robert Wilson was a recipient of the 34th Annual Praemium Imperiale award, and at the close of the ceremony in Tokyo on October 18th 2023 in his speech he remarked "Artists are the diaries and the journalists of the days in which we live... Politics and religion will always separate us, but art has the possibility of bringing men together".
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer and Choreographer. Video portrait by Robert Wilson. Image courtesy of Robert Wilson. Published in the IMAGE edition of THE LAB MAG
Robert Wilson, his legacy and the work of The Watermill Center will live on.
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