New York: Dana Schutz ‘Götterdämmerung’ at The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery at the Metropolitan Opera House through May 12, 2012
Sunday, February 26th, 2012Dana Schutz, Young Brünnhilde (2011)
With watercolors, colored pencils and crayons, Dana Schutz presents a whimsical and striking interpretation of the opera Götterdämmerung to complete the Gallery Met’s four-part series of exhibitions inspired by Wagner’s Ring cycle, organized by Dodie Kazanjian. While Wagner’s Götterdämmerung (which translates to “The Twilight of the Gods”) is a superpower of an opera—filled with betrayal, loss, and the clash of gods and men—Schutz’s exhibition breathes life and light into the melodrama.