Guillermo Kuitca's Opera House Curtain

A collaboration with the architects, Foster and Partners, the red, gold and brown stage curtain is a “deconstructed image of the hall’s seating on a background of chocolate brown velour.” This is the first curtain design for Kuitca, who has previously designed opera sets in his hometown of Buenos Aires. He has often explored the visual qualities of seating plans in his work based on a trip he took to the Royal Opera House in London in 1994 when he was drawn in by the “pared-down visual language” of the chart. In 2007 he began digitally manipulating these charts and changing their colors and arrangements. The works are about disorientation. The Winspear Opera House is part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center so if you happen to be in Dallas, TX check it out.