The busyness of Fashion Week has come to an end. Many of those who visited the city just to refill on fashion inspiration have left. But for those who are staying a little longer this October, we have some great plans for all of those who will be spending a few more days in the City of Lights.
The following exhibitions are the must see of the year and we hope you’ll get the chance to visit at least one of them.
Gustav Klimt
38, Rue Saint-Maur
75011
L’Atèlier des Lumières is holding the most innovative exhibition: Gustav Klimt’s work in digital art.
The first digital exhibition in Paris uses 140 laser video projectors that project on to (and across) 10 metre high walls over the vast 3,300 square metre surface area of the renovated 19th-century building where the exhibition is being held. The sounds of Wagner, Chopin and Beethoven contribute to the multi-sensory experience.
“Walking around, you are enveloped by Klimt’s ravishing creations. Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of the artist’s most famous portrait, towers above you over 30 feet tall, disintegrating into a shower of gold and silver pixels without warning; before you know it, the lovers of Klimt’s masterpiece The Kiss (1907–08) are crowding out the vast space in a larger-than-life PDA. The confines of the room itself seem to shift as a blizzard of gold leaf whirls across the floor and ceiling.” (Artsy)
According to gallery director Michael Couzigou: “We see his beginnings in Vienna, where he is a young Art-deco painter, then slowly we arrive to the (Vienna’s modernist) Secession movement, when Klimt wants to emancipate himself from the artistic academism … Then, he wants to create his own movement and there we go further towards Symbolism, towards Art Nouveau and that is how we follow the progress of the work of Gustav Klimt.” (euronews)
This exhibition is open now until January 6, 2019
