Geography of Lies
Alexander Polzin, Peer Gynt I, 2011
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‘This project presents a wonderful opportunity for me to bring together my life-long relationship with Grieg’s music and my passion for the visual arts’
Alexander Polzin’s video projections take the audience into the mind and memories of Henrik Ibsen’s great anti-hero Peer Gynt as he looks back on his life, to the accompaniment of a live orchestra performing excerpts from Grieg’s evocative and well-loved score.
Collaboration between Norwegian conductor and art collector Eivind Aadland and German visual artist Alexander Polzin, commissioned by Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra to commemorate 200 years of Norwegian independence and its own 250th Jubilee.
‘I see this piece as happening from the perspective of Peer Gynt as an ageing man reflecting on, or reliving in some strange way, the adventures of his younger self’
