Pablo Bronstein: Historical Dances in an Antique Setting
The work takes
over the Duveen Gallery on the first floor and reinterprets the space. At each
end of the gallery are large photographs of each of the galleries entrances
which seem to emphasis the classical architecture of the internal space. Into
this are placed three dancers, dressed in red and black and wearing mock pearls, which turns the
space into a promenade area. The dancers reinterpret baroque dance styles in a
very set sequence in which each scene moves up the gallery space.
I found the whole
thing mesmeric. I loved the fact that the dancers rotated their roles and kept
going throughout the day so as you dip in and out of other galleries you return
to find the dance still going. It gives it a feeling of human perpetual motion.
Both the dance and the photo graphs make you look at the space with a fresh
eye. I also loved that the dancers were
in your space and you could walk between them and move up the space with them.
The whole effect was to make people art.
It has to be said
too that the dancers were fantastic!
Closes 9 October
2016.
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