Newsletter
#47
Contents
Yadegar Asisi’s panorama
COAL + ICE
Panorama of Congo
Corona Variations
IPC 2024 Conference
Innsbruck’s rotunda Building
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BY YADEGAR ASISI OPENS AT THE PANOMETER LEIPZIG
German premiere for Yadegar Asisi’s panorama “THE CATHEDRAL OF MONET— Freedom of Painting”: With this work, Yadegar Asisi has created a 360° painting of colour and light in the style of Impressionism. He thus dedicates himself to one of the most important art epochs of our time and provides an insight into his own 30-year period of painterly creativity. The panorama has been on display at the Panometer in Leipzig since 16 March 2024.
Yadegar Asisi is breaking new artistic ground: for the first time, a panorama has been painted entirely in oil on canvas before being digitally enlarged and printed on fabric. The work, which was then staged on a 3,500 square metre scale, takes us back to the end of the 19th century in the northern French city of Rouen. From several levels of the 15-metre-high visitor tower, visitors are immersed in an experience of vivid brushstrokes and a unique interplay of colour and light.
The scenery opens up as if you were standing on Rouen’s cathedral square in 1894: the evening sun almost completely illuminates the façade of NotreDame de Rouen Cathedral in the centre, casting a warm orange-red light on the forecourt and the houses already in the shade. A multifaceted interplay of extraordinary colour nuances, shades and incidences of light pervades the entire surroundings. Asisi immortalises famous painters and contemporaries such as Vincent van Gogh, Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet on the forecourt of the cathedral.
