On the 100th anniversary of his birth, C/O Berlin commemorated Irving Penn with a major retrospective. The exhibition featuring around 240 works was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with The Irving Penn Foundation. 

 

Still/Life, as part of the exhibition based on the work of Irving Penn entitled 'Centennial', C/O Berlin, presented a Matinee with the dancers of Sasha Waltz & Guests.  Jiří Bartovanec, Hwanhee Hwang, Annapaola Leso, Nicola Mascia, Corey Scott-Gilbert & Stylianos Tsatsos encounter Irving Penn’s legendary photographic work. In scenic interactions with the photographs, the soloists draw inspiration from Irving Penn’s multifaceted work. Through the movement and stillness, and the presence and absence of the dancers, Penn’s pictures become three-dimensional, creating surprising visual moments for the visitor. The dancers appear silently and seemingly out of nowhere; their movements are fleeting, spontaneous, and delicate one moment, and expansive the next; some suddenly leave the field of vision and disappear from the room.