The
« Atelier des Lumières » is a digital art centre, which opened in
April this year. It occupies what used to be a foundry, created already in 1835
– well hidden behind some more recent buildings (through which you enter). You
can hardly imagine the huge ex-foundry buildings if you don’t open Google Earth
and get the view from the sky.
The place offers a surface area of 3.300 m2
(some 35.000 sq.ft), with some 10 m (30 ft) high walls, and the “show” is
performed via some 140 video projectors accompanied by music via a fantastic
sound system…
It is run
by “Culturespaces”, a private enterprise, majority-owned by “Engie”, the French
leading energy company (electricity, gas, nuclear…) and which manages a number
of museums and cultural spaces around France, including in Paris the Jacquemart-André
(see my post here) and the Maillol Museums (see my posts here and here). They
are also involved in a similar operation at Baux-de-Provence, “Carrières de Lumières” (see previous post).
These first
photos may give you an impression of the space…
The present
“show” concentrates on three Austrian artists, mostly on Gustav Klimt, but also
on Egon Schiele and F. Hundertwasser (who was not only a painter but who also transformed
his fantasies in the construction of real (ecological) buildings).
So, from
the show… some Klimt impressions…
… some
Schiele impressions…
… and some
Hundertwasser impressions..