‘Gustav Klimt: Gold in Motion’ exhibit dazzles in New York

NEW YORK, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Austrian Symbolist artist Gustav Klimt’s masterpieces are coming to life in an immersive exhibit in New York, inaugurating a brand new museum that merges know-how, artwork and music.

“Gustav Klimt: Gold in Movement,” which opens on Wednesday, enfolds guests in 30-foot (9-meter) excessive pictures of his works within the Emigrant Industrial Financial savings Financial institution constructing in Manhattan, now the 33,000-square-foot Corridor des Lumières.

A model of Klimt’s most well-known work, “The Kiss,” painted in 1907-8 throughout the top of his golden interval, seemingly drips off the brand new museum’s marble partitions onto the ground.

“While you put this not on the canvas however on the wall, you’ll be able to see it is like a brand new world each time,” mentioned Gianfranco Iannuzzi, the year-long present’s inventive director.

“You aren’t in entrance of one thing like a cinema display or in a museum like a portray, however you might be inside and you’ve got a unique sort of scenario with the way in which you look, but additionally hear and likewise transfer round,” he added. “All of this can be a particular… delicate and emotional expertise.”

Iannuzzi, who created the “Van Gogh, Starry Night time” present at the moment on the Atelier des Lumières in Paris, hopes such exhibitions will make conventional artworks extra widespread.

“It is crucial to open the artwork and the tradition to a big viewers,” he mentioned.

New York’s new digital artwork heart is collectively owned and operated by French museum supervisor Culturespaces and IMG, a world occasions, sports activities and expertise administration firm.

Reporting by Roselle Chen; Modifying by Richard Chang

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