Newsletter 15 August 2008
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Newsletter 15 August 2008 Panorama Waterloo on tentative list brainstorming groups include discussing of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage options for an international support for the IPC International The UNESCO Meeting on World Heritage in panorama phenomenon (What can IPC do Panorama Council Québec (Canada) last July decided to have the for all the panoramas? What is its aim?), Panorama Waterloo inserted on the tentative list developing programs for the IPC homepage for Belgium. This is one of the list of objects and for public relations & press for IPC; www.panoramapainting.com Belgium would like to present for recognition as creating concepts for an Image Flyer and a world cultural heritage in the future. This poster for IPC; creating a world map in panorama was added to the list as an example which all panorama institutions and of the "phenomenon of the panoramas" and the panoramas are included; and sales & opening for registration of historical panoramas merchandising (including concepts for worldwide. (Re: IPC Newsletter 14) The country merchandising panorama products) for IPC. delegates of Canada, Germany, the Netherlands Funding and acquiring sponsors for the IPC and Switzerland have declared to be open for and formalization of statutes will also be similar action. Though a long and extensive important themes. Moderators for the process, the existing panoramas could benefit meetings will be invited among the from registration, which would help to secure participants. their future. See: http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/state=be The International Panorama Council will discuss Campaign for the preservation IPC Executive Board: the item in its annual conference in September of Bergisel Panorama in Innsbruck and may deliver recommendations to the A meeting on June 16th with a number of Prof. Yadegar Asisi individual panoramas and countries. experts and representatives of the (GE-Berlin) Dr. Mimi Colligan We congratulate our colleagues from Belgium government of the Land of Tyrol and the (AU-Melbourne) and especially Isabelle Leroy for this first Austrian Federal Office for Heritage Patrick Deicher M.A. successful step and we hope for positive effects (Bundesdenkmalamt) included a vital (CH-Lucerne) for all panoramas. discussion about the attempted removal of Gabriele Koller M.A. The World Heritage List includes 679 cultural, the protection of the unity of the panorama (GE-Bonn) David Robinson 174 natural and 25 mixed cultural/natural painting and its building from 1907 and (UK-London) properties, in total 878 heritage properties which allowing the translocation of the painting to Ernst Storm MSc the World Heritage Committee considers as a newly erected museum. There is said to (NL-Rotterdam) having outstanding universal value. See: have been strong opposition against those Dr. Gebhard Streicher www.whc.unesco.org/en/list. plans from some of the experts attending. (GE-Munich) Prof. Wei Ershen The Land of Tyrol had elections at the (PRC-Shenyang) beginning of July and a new government is th Dipl. Arch. Damian Widmer 17 International Panorama Conference in charge. It is not yet clear what the effect (CH-Lucerne) More than 60 participants from different on the panorama topic will be. IPC has Prof. Sanford Wurmfeld European countries, Australia, Brazil, the offered a meeting in Innsbruck to the new (US-NYC) Democratic People's Republic of Korea, New minister for culture of the Land Tyrol. The Zealand, the Russian Federation, and the USA minister signalized to be ready for a have registered to attend the next International Honorary President: meeting in autumn. Prof. Ottó Trogmayer Panorama Conference in September in Dresden The Land of Tyrol has given an order to (HU-Szeged) (Germany). There will be an opening dinner on present a cost estimate for variations (e.g., 11 September in the Panometer in Leipzig picture out for the restoration and then back President: (Richard-Lehmann-Strasse 114, 04275 Leipzig, into the building after the building’s Ernst Storm, [email protected] +49 341 121 3396), including a visit to the renovation, or definite translocation of the panorama Rome CCCXII. From 12-14 September painting into a new museum). This is one of IPC Secretariat: the conference premises will be the Panometer the results of the colloquium where the in Dresden (Gasanstaltstrasse 8b, 01237 absence of such calculations was Patrick Deicher Dresden, +49 351 860 3940), where the complained about. Some basic facts for a Hochruetistrasse 39 panorama Dresden 1756 will be visited. Both decision on the continuation of monument 6005 Lucerne panoramas are recent creations of Yadegar Asisi, protection are still absent at the moment. Switzerland an Iranian, born in Vienna (Austria) in 1955, The wood clearing on the Bergisel professor for architectural presentations at the Phone +41 79 637 31 53 development site for the new museum, [email protected] University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and IPC which would house the panorama painting Board Member. See: www.panometer.de. without its proper faux terrain and light, has The conference program was separately sent to started and still continues. So please all IPC members by mail on 8 May 2008 by Ms. consider to sign the petition in favour of the Irina Schotte of Panometer GmbH. It consists of endangered panorama at www.innsbruck- several thematic ‘blocks’: Protecting Panorama panorama.eu. Also see our Newsletters as Heritage on 12 September (among others from Newsletter 11. addressing the Altötting, Bergisel, Gettysburg and Mesdag panoramas), Panoramic Perception on 13 September (including Management, ‘Mesdag’ welcomes restoration grant Technologies, Optics and Perspective, and Panorama Mesdag in The Hague (Holland) Devices for the Future) and Perceiving the has received a Government grant of € Future on 14 September. During this final day of 600,000 as a contribution to the restoration the conference the participants will focus on the plan of the historic part of the panorama future of the International Panorama Council premises. This plan, together with an itself. Issues to be discussed and delivered in extension plan, is meant to prepare the -> Panorama Mesdag for the future, adding new facilities Philippoteaux made four Gettysburg cycloramas, each for visitors and educational activities. The building of a painted slightly differently and with its own diorama or new Hilton The Hague hotel next to the panorama is faux terrain, and each bound for separate tours. Only also proceeding well. Panorama Mesdag is the oldest two cycloramas are known to have survived, and panorama in the world including a 'faux terrain'. It is Gettysburg will soon reopen the only one on view. Ms. located in its original rotunda and the painting and the Boardman spent a decade collecting photographs of building are both classified as a Dutch National every version. David L. Olin, Chief Conservator of Olin Monument. Its existence however is being threatened Inc. will deliver a presentation on the Gettysburg by the neighbouring building of a two story deep conservation project during our 17th IPC conference next parking garage (Re: IPC Newsletters as from number September in Dresden (Germany), and Sue Boardman 11). ‘Mesdag’ has lost several legal appeals, but for the and Ryszard Wojtowicz will be among the attendees of time being has succeeded in spite of those: building the conference. activities have been suspended since December 2007 and the city of The Hague is now prepared to keep a closer watch at future plans of the garage developers. Dazzling Elliptical Panorama in Edinburgh The Mesdag board has welcomed the Heritage As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2008 the New York Department grant to its € 7 million master plan artist and IPC Board member Sanford Wurmfeld because it symbolizes Dutch Government dedication to presented his latest work, a 700 square-foot ‘E- the cause of saving the highly classified Mesdag Cyclorama’, oval shaped and measuring 8x10 meters, at Panorama painting of Scheveningen in 1880. The board the Talbot Rice Gallery of the Edinburgh College of Art of the H.W. Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten (Scotland) on 23 July. It will be on view until 5 descendants owned museum and the board of the September in Edinburgh, the ‘home town’ of panorama Foundation for the Preservation of Panorama Mesdag painting, where the Irish painter Robert Barker invented have decided to make use of the symbolic meaning of the 360º panorama phenomenon in 1787. Wurmfeld’s the grant to re-start their fund raising activities. See first ‘Cyclorama 2000’, a circular panorama, was also on www.panorama-mesdag.com or contact director Ms. show in Edinburgh for the first time, in 2004. It is now in Marijnke de Jong, [email protected]. the collection of the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum in Hagen, Germany. Sanford Wurmfeld, professor at Hunter College in New York City, will participate in the 17th IPC The New York Times on ‘Gettysburg’ conference in Dresden. Men who fought in the crucial American Civil War battle In Metro of 28 July Leon McDermott gave a 4-star at Gettysburg testified to the veracity of art’s imitation review: ”Rather than give a view of Edinburgh (or of war. “I never before had an idea that the eye could anywhere, for that matter), instead it gives you an eye- be so deceived by paint and canvas,” Brig. Gen. Henry popping brain spasm. Wurmfeld's technique is J. Hunt, the former Union artillery chief, wrote in 1884 marshalled to explore the vagaries of human perception upon seeing the ‘cyclorama’ of Gettysburg. when it comes to colour and light. It examines how they This panorama, oil painted in 1884 by the French artist work separately and together, and how together they're Paul Philippoteaux and on display during its first few deceptive, untrustworthy entities. Walk up a set of years in Boston, Massachusetts, is to reopen on 26 narrow stairs into the cyclorama itself, and you're September 2008 after a five-year restoration (Re: suddenly thrown into the middle of this buzzing, Newsletters 13 and 14), “and for the first time in more unending world of mutating colour.