GUSTAV KLIMT : ATELIER DES LUMIÈRES
Mark the hundredth anniversary of the painter’s deathTo mark its opening, the Atelier des Lumières presented an immersive exhibition devoted to the main figures in the Viennese art scene, of which Gustav Klimt was a key figure. To mark the hundredth anniversary of the painter’s death, and that of Egon Schiele, their works will be brought to life to the sound of music on the former foundry’s immense projection surface. The exhibition started from 13 April 2018 and will end soon on 6th January 2019.
In late nineteenth-century Imperial Vienna, Gustav Klimt was one of the principal decorative painters of the sumptuous monuments on the Ringstrasse. At the dawn of the new century, he led the Vienna Secession, a movement that sought to break away from academic art. Both famous and contested, Klimt paved the way to modern painting. The gold and decorative motifs that characterise his works are a symbol of this artistic revolution. The immersive exhibition includes the works that typify Klimt’s work and made him so famous—his ‘golden period’, portraits, and landscapes.
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(@sohjuhao) Then, it’s the “magical” sequence, Klimt and Gold, the most iconic painting with The Kiss, Danaë and the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Our eyes are filled with gold, figures merging and interlace to create a wonderful picture ballet on Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, Philip Glass’s Etude No.2 and Luca Longobardi’s Glass Recomposed. After this sequence, the weather gets colder, paintings of the 4th sequence take us to Nature, in fall, with beech trees forest as well as in spring with fields of flowers. More than before, we feel the ground moving under our feet and we tumble with Gustav Mahler.
We cross over 100 years of Viennese painting through Gustav Klimt’s pictorial work (1862-1918) evolving around 6 “scenes” lasting 5 minutes each, where paintings are decomposed with the characters coming out of their frame. The first scene, the neoclassic Vienna reveals the architectural gems of Gustav Klimt’s city, including the Kunsthistoriches Museum and the Wiener Staatsoper. Moving on to the second scene returns on the Vienna Secession, the façades of the buildings are displayed with their stylized foliage motifs, and historical posters about the 1897 Vienna Secession of which Klimt will be one of the founders.
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(shwuyuanlo) Back in the city for the 5th sequence. Please note that the works are not by Klimt but Egon Schiele, an artist who builds wonderful villages like a patchwork of houses with pastel colors. We find colorful characters, ready to dance on Sergueï Rachmaninov’s and Alexander Warenberg’s music! Then, for the grande finale, a focus on Klimt and women, with the most beautiful portraits of women painted by the Austrain, sometimes painted with gold. Young ladies, pregnant women and mature women were idolized by Klimt, fascinated by these bodies changing with time!
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L'Atelier des Lumières
38 Rue Saint-Maur
75011 Paris 11
