BOOKS

"The book series Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts (Ñaque Ed.), and Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process (upcoming), follow Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process, a PhD dissertation that served as a way of immersing myself in contemporary art in the frame of the avant-garde.

Over the past several decades, Robert Wilson is well known as a master of opera staging, with successful productions commissioned by major opera houses, especially in Paris and Berlin. Although Wilson is essentially a theater author/director and visual artist immersed in movement, as he has created an extensive visual work including drawings, paintings, furniture design, video art, and installations.

Wilson is the master of light in the performing arts of the 20th century and beyond. He is a great admirer of dancer Martha Graham, and a follower of the Black Mountain College experimental tradition with figures like painter Robert Rauschenberg and musician John Cage. Wilson appears in the emblematic book The Theater of Images together with Richard Foreman and Mabou Mines.

Robert Wilson belongs to the unique generation that took New York by storm in the second half of the 60s to establish groundbreaking languages for contemporary art to this day. Writers Heiner Müller, and William S. Burroughs; musicians Philip Glass, Lou Reed, and Tom Waits are among his numerous extraordinary collaborators. I could not lock myself in for years into any other world." — PV

Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts

Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process

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Robert Wilson’s Book Series

"Robert Wilson’s theater cannot be merely explained, it must be experienced. With precise insight and lyrical prose, Pedro Valiente invites us to enter Wilson’s universe, where time slows down, light thinks, and silence becomes language. This book series opens a gateway to the creative act, revealing the visionary who transformed the stage into a space for deep perception —both are studies of an extraordinary oeuvre and essays on the transformative power of art.

Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts maps a body of work that radiates across continents. Through collaborations, languages, and cultures, Wilson composes a theatre that is both local and cosmic. The book follows the threads that connect his creations to the ritual, and the visual, revealing how his art becomes a form of poetic geography. Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process takes us into the intimate core of the creative process. Centered on the work The Days Before DDDIII, this book enters Wilson’s inner laboratory, where drawings, visual scores, and temporal structures shape a theater without plot. It is a journey into the center of silence, where each gesture carries intention, and each image holds suspended time space." Site I EXTERNAL REVIEW