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For the fourth summer in a row and again concurrent to the Richard-Wagner-Festival in Bayreuth, the Berlin-based Argentinean painter Mariano Rinaldi Goñi will present an exhibition of paintings of themes taken from Wagner’s operas as well as Nordic mythology and reinterpreted in a contemporary manner. This year’s exhibition, with the title “Götterdämmerung” (“Twilight of the Gods”) will be in two parts, one to be presented at the Walküre Porzellanfabrik in Bayreuth, the other one at the Galerie Deschler in Berlin. Following the exhibitions “Valkyries” (2006/2007), „Rheingold“ (2008) and „Nornen“ (2009), “Twilight of the Gods” concludes his own personal “Ring” cycle. The exhibition at the Walküre Porzellanfabrik in Bayreuth (through 28 August) will again be accompanied by various events and performances, particularly in collaboration with the band Vudú da Mucama, whose combination of metal music, Wagnerian opera singing, and ballet promises an entirely new art experience and makes Wagner's world accessible to a young audience. On 8 September at 8.30 p.m. you are cordially invited to see the band Vudú da Mucama perform live at the gallery.
Goñi has been exploring themes from Richard Wagner’s operas and from Nordic mythology for years. After the successful exhibition “Valkyries” at the Galerie Deschler in 2006 opened by Katharina Wagner and Hartmut Koschyk MP, the paintings accompanied the first complete performance of the “Ring” in Poland after the Second World War, directed by Hans-Peter Lehmann and staged at the Century Hall in Wroclaw. During the Bayreuth Richard-Wagner-Festival 2007, Goñi’s paintings were exhibited at the Richard Wagner Museum in the Villa Wahnfried, the New City Hall of Bayreuth, and the Orangerie of the Neues Schloss in Bayreuth. In the Summer of 2008 Goñi, in collaboration with the baritone Felix Bruder, further developed this symbiosis of painting and music with “Rheingold.” In 2009 Goñi returned to Bayreuth with his exhibition “Nornen,” again accompanied by a rich program of photo exhibitions and performances. This year’s “Twilight of the Gods” continues the cycle and brings it to a preliminary climax and conclusion.
(Press release)
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