Barco projectors bring to life the digital art center in Paris L'Atelier des Lumières

The first exhibition held offers an immersive sample composed of thousands of images of digitized works of art, projected on the floor, on the walls and ceiling that flow to the rhythm of the music. For their realization they have been used 128 PGWU-62L laser projectors and 16 panoramic WUXGA F50.

Mid-year, Paris inaugurated its first digital art center: L'Atelier des Lumières. This is located in an old foundry of 1835 Bring paintings by renowned artists to life with stunning surround sound and visual spectacle.

Behind this project is Culturespaces, company that has already organized similar immersive exhibitions in Carrières de Lumières, in the city of Les Baux-de-Provenc, where it has turned the old underground quarry into one of the most outstanding tourist attractions in Europe (más información en Digital AV Magazine). This same immersive and big-screen experience has been taken to the heart of Paris at L'Atelier des Lumières has taken this. And in both cases Barco projectors have been used.

For Culturespaces, the exhibitions of Les Baux-de-Provence and Paris are like a dream come true. “My goal was to fully immerse visitors in pixels and sound and create a unique sensory experience., to bring the work closer to people. The Paris audience is more critical so we decided to add some extras. Making images move here and there, play with mirrors and project on cylindrical surfaces and water. Image quality was key, However, Challenges abounded with walls of 10 meters high and a not very large space where the public is closer to the artwork and can see everything in more detail”, explains its CEO Bruno Monnier.

For the project of the digital art center of Paris, Culturespaces has had the help of the integrator Cadmos which was responsible for installing the technology of ship to represent paintings by Gustav Klimt and other authors in a space of 3.300 square meters for projection on walls, ceilings and floor. In total they have been used 128 PGWU-62L laser projectors and 16 widescreen WUXGA F50 short lens.

"Laser projectors project sharp images with high contrast., thus representing the images in the most realistic way possible", says Bruno Monnier.

Gustav Klimt

For the inauguration of the center, an exhibition was presented that offers an immersive digital experience around the work of Gustav Klimt, A show, which is still active until November, and that fuses monumental projection with music to immerse the visitor in the work of the Austrian painter.

The immersive exhibition is composed of thousands of images of digitized works of art, projected on the floor, on the walls as well as on the ceiling and other typical elements of the place. These flow to the rhythm of the music and appear molded for the architecture of the Atelier. A unique sensory experience that immerses the visitor in the world of Gustav Klimt.

In order to provide a projection of 300 millions of pixels, Culturespaces and Cadmos, The project integrator, opted for Modulo Pi systems from the study phase of the project.

In the sample were used 35 Kinetic Module units of Pi-Module, responsible for helping to handle overlaps and soft edges, as well as facilitating deformation with Xmap mode. The result was an uninterrupted projection over the entire surface of the show..

Kinetic Module was also used as a show controller to manage and sequence all media that are part of the show.: Videos, music, imagery…

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