Immersive artworkText and video by Dominik Barbier
Romanité Museum, Nîmes – 2024
MAGNIFYING ICONOGRAPHY
Intensive iconographic research stimulates the artist’s imagination as well as his understanding of mythology and history :
– The icons are submitted to a sophisticated digital restoration process
– To enter into a painting, a fresco, a mosaic..
– To bring to life a painting, to transform and glorify it – without betraying its original meaning : a contemporary approach to an age-old art.
Original production before integrating into the scenographic assemblage. Recreation of Neptune’s imaginary palace
based on a fresco found in the Villa of Mysteries, Pompéi
Scenographic assemblage at Arles Museum of Antiquity
Videomapping of a sculpture of Neptune and of architectural interior of museum. animation of Roman mosaics and fresco of Nereids (Bardo, Tunisia)
Arles Museum of Antiquity – European Night of Museums 2014