Peter Welz + William Forsythe

Retranslation / Final Unfinished Portrait

Spazio ORR is pleased to present the projection of Peter Welz’s work Retranslation /Final Unfinished Portrait (Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1991–92) shown in Italy for the second time after being exhibited at Musée du Louvre, Paris, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Galleria Nationale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma.

The work explores a dialogue between dance and drawing. William Forsythe and Peter Welz examine the human figure and its relation to space with an installation that mixes painting, drawing and video projections. Inspired by Francis Bacon’s final unfinished self-portrait, a masterpiece that is being shown for the first time in France (2017), the installation‚retranslation | final unfinished portrait (Francis Bacon) | figure inscribing figure’ has been linked with the experience of an ontological loss.