Klimts art is brought to life by digital technology

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(4 May 2018) LEADIN: • One hundred years after his death the work of art nouveau painter Gustav Klimt has been brought to life by digital technology. • A new exhibition in Paris at the Atelier des Lumieres (Studio of Lights) allows visitors to be immersed in Klimt's world. • STORYLINE : • The golden decorative motifs so typical of Gustav Klimt's style surround visitors of a new digital interpretation of his career. • The Atelier des Lumieres, or Studio of Lights, a digital gallery in Paris has created an immersive experience for visitors who can walk into and over paintings projected around a warehouse, in a 35 minute moving sequence. • Michael Couzigou, the gallery's director explains: It has 140 video projectors which is allowing to create this entirely immersive exhibit; so we are projecting on walls of this former foundry, also on the ground and that creates an entirely new artistic experience. • Klimt, who was born in 1862 was one of the founders of Vienna's modernist Secession art movement. • During his lifetime, he was considered controversial at home, while the art scene in Paris praised his works. The Kiss is among his masterpieces. • In the hothouse atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Vienna, Klimt won fame as the portraitist of the upper class, especially women. • On one wall visitors are confronted with the eyes Adele Bloch-Bauer. • Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, an Austrian Jewish industrialist, commissioned two Klimt oil paintings of his slender, dark-haired wife. • The artist and beautiful Adele were rumoured to have had an affair during the years when she sat for the portraits, but this has never been documented. • The work was created by Italian digital artist Gianfranco Iannuzzi, who scanned some 5,000 images in high definition in order to create the animated sequence. • You get the impression to enter in the mind of Gustav Klimt, we enter in his work, we enter his paintings and that creates a rather unique experience for the public, says Couzigou. • Organizers say the gallery is the biggest of its kind in the world. It has 140 fixed video projectors and 50 speakers installed across the 3,300-square-meter (35,521-square-foot) former foundry, built in 1835. • The exhibit is composed of 5,000 images. We are telling the progress of work of Gustav Klimt. We are seeing his beginnings in Vienna, where he is a young Art-deco painter, then slowly we arrive to the Secession when Klimt wants to emancipate himself of the artistic academism and when he wants to create his own movement and there we go further towards Symbolism, towards Art Nouveau and that is how we follow the the progress of the work of Gustav Klimt, explains Couzigou. • The show, set to classical music, attracted 60,000 visitors in its first 10 days. • There were mixed reactions from art fans. • Maryline Kasparian, a visitor from Paris was enthralled: I know his (Gustav Klimt's) paintings, but here we are entering in paintings, in the painter's intimacy. It is magnificent, it is a moment of tranquillity and rest with music above that, it was a great experience, really. • But Pascal Romiaux, from Strasbourg was more cautious in his approval noting that the lack of information provided no insight. • The advantage (of this exhibit) is the immersion and vertiginous use of this surge of colours, in a captivating audio and visual atmosphere, which leave us in a certain perplexity. That is why I said before (the interview) that I might be without the answer or speechless. And negative point is that (the exhibit) is that there are no explanations, it is (only) about sensations and emotions in their raw shape, says Romiaux. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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