Written by Octavia Wang，2021 Cohort
When we talk about newly emerging art forms, the connection with exciting digital artworks is always inevitable. In most cases, artists are inspired by old artefacts to create their own pieces of art, but there are also artists who choose to fuse or dismantle existing artifacts to recreate their own.
Creating in this way could be dangerous because artists need to carefully avoid crossing the line between re-creation and plagiarism. But in the meantime, there are also some really impressive works that could lead by example.
Imagine Van Gogh
Imagine standing in a giant room surrounded by more than two hundred outstanding works of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the greatest painters of the late 14th century. The designer of the Immersive exhibition Annabelle Mauger and Julien Baronb cut and projected Van Gogh’s works onto giant screens that could wrap around each visitor’s position. Accompanied by the classical music, which could perfectly match the theme, and having enlarged the resolution tenfold, the audience can clearly see the distinctive swirling strokes and easily getting immersed with the world of Post-Impressionism.
Carrières de Lumières
The concept of the immersive show was first presented in 1960 by Albert Plécy, who was a French Journalist, photographer, painter and filmmaker. Combining his own particular multi-disciplinary experience, he visualized his own concept by projecting and enlarging paintings onto a few stone pillars. After received numerous accolades, he named the show Cathedral d’Images.
The location he chose to project the painting was an abandoned stone quarry that later became a famous attraction for visitors to see the later immersive shows and also became the origin location of Imagine Van Gogh. I believe the success of this immersive show will bring us some inspiration about the future of our interdisciplinary creations.