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September 2015 Dr IPC Executive Board: Sara Velas, President (USA-Los Angeles) [email protected] Dr. Guy Thewes, Vice-President (LU - Luxembourg) Patrick Deicher M.A., Treasurer (CH – Lucerne) Dr. Mimi Colligan (AU-Melbourne) Dominique Hanson (BE-Brussels) Mathias Thiel (GE - Berlin) Newsletter no. 36, September 2015 Dr. Blagovesta Momchedjikova (USA –NYC) prof. Thiago Leitão (BR - Sao Paulo) 24th IPC conference participants ©Musée d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg Updates from Asisi GmbH Opening 3 October 2015 Great Barrier Reef in Content Leipzig ........................................................ 9 24 th IPC conference ....................................... 2 A Hidden Treasure‚ The Panorama of the 25 th IPC conference ....................................... 5 Battle of Bannockburn .................................. 11 Institutional and individual member Panorama Vught 1629: feasibility challenge acknowledgments .......................................... 5 to be initiated ............................................... 12 Changes to the Executive Board ................... 6 University of Kent acquired panorama Changes in the Auditing committee .............. 6 collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd ........ 12 Changes in the Secretariat ............................ 7 Georama musical in St. Louis ...................... 13 New memberships area on our website ...... 7 The Panorama in the Bottle Tower at IPC brochure .................................................. 7 Altenburg Castle by Anthony Lowe ............. 14 The legacy of Ralph Hyde ............................. 8 Panorama Mesdag brought to life and on the move ............................................................. 18 Updates from Asisi GmbH ............................ 8 New publications ......................................... 19 Update from Asisi GmbH Opening 26 September 2015 Amazonia in Rouen Publication offer ........................................... 19 Panorama XXL ............................................ 8 Next newsletter ............................................ 19 IPC Secretariat: International Panorama Council; Sylvia Alting van Geusau; Postbus 76012; 1070 EA Amsterdam; The Netherlands; Phone +31 621 98 73 47; [email protected] The International Panorama Council is a non-government and not-for-profit association, subject to Swiss law. 36 th IPC Newsletter 24 th IPC conference As we had lost two loved IPC members last year, there was time of remembrance of Ottó 9-12 September 2015 Trògmayer and Ralph Hyde. Dr. Róbert Károly Kiss gave a talk about the history of The Executive Board of the International the Árpád Festztys cyclorama, “The arrival of Panorama Council is pleased to look back the Hungarians” and Heritage Park where on a fruitful conference with 50 participants Ottó Trògmayer used to work and from from 16 different countries and 20 where IPC started. At the General Assembly interesting presentations. The conference Gabriele Koller noted that the beautiful book could have never been so successful without of Ralph Hyde Paper peepshows was the intensive preparation work of our two published and she also informed us about Executive Board Dominique Hanson and the interesting project that he still was Guy Thewes in cooperation with the IPC working on, namely The ‘Biographical Secretariat and the local partners that Dictionary of Panoramists of the English- included Axel Tixhon of the University of Speaking World’. He gave his research Namur, Isabelle Bondroit of the City of material to The Bill Douglas Cinema Namur and the Luxembourg History Museum, you can read more about this Museum. project in this newsletter. The theme of the 24 th IPC conference was All our speakers were selected on their Layers of history: panoramas from classical contribution to the theme of layers of history. to digital age . On the first arrival day of the Panoramas respond to our aspiration to conference the participants and Executive recover lost worlds and revive the important Board of the IPC were welcomed by Maxime events in history. Although to use them as a Prévot, the mayor of Namur. This was “time-machine” can be somewhat confusing. followed by an opening speech of the Most of them were made long after the panorama artist Yadegar Asisi in which Asisi moment in history they depict. The battles used the conference theme to talk about the they show have been fought many years purpose of battle and war panoramas – then before the painter decided to fix them on and now. He posed questions like: What is canvas, the places represented have the purpose of restoring and conserving changed since then. A real ‘time-machine’ ancient battle and war panoramas? Why was found by PhD candidate Molly Briggs, create and exhibit new panoramas showing who showed us a new discovered moving military conflicts? And, can such panoramas panorama made by Marcus Mote that is be used as statements against war itself? stored in the Krannert Art Museum on the Using his own panoramas of LEIPZIG 1813 Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. and DRESDEN 1945 he explained his view Together with a whole team she was on showing ‘war’ in a panorama. Not the responsible for the digitalization of this siege itself are topics he addresses but he massive canvas and to do research on the creates esthetic landscapes in order to story. She will keep us posted when the enlarge the esthetics and suspense of the moving panorama will be displayed again. audience. Suzanne Wray talked about the big business that the European capitalists achieved with The first official conference day started with their panoramas in America. In 2014 Dr. a welcome by Sara Velas, President of IPC. Alexy Druzhinin obtained his doctorate title 2 36 th IPC Newsletter with his thesis ‘Artistic diorama as a form of under which the panoramas of the Battle of art in Russia’. In his talk he gave an Gallipoli / Çanakkale were realized and the interesting summary of his dissertation in political agendas and purposes behind the which he studied the developments of projects. diorama art in Russia. Prof. Thiago Leitão looked at the ways in which digital Large attention was also given to techniques can contribute in order to contemporary art and new media committed recreate lost panoramas. He discussed the to the panoramic experience as a mean to panorama Del Retiro which was showed in cross time and space. Prof. Yunhui Ji of the the city of Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth Luxun Academy of Fine Arts of China gave a century. presentation of the Chinese panoramas. Hereby he showed that panoramas have Today, the panoramas in themselves have special meanings and values in China. Dr. become historical monuments, reflecting the Magnus Moar and Mr. James Charlton took particular time they were made. In the case the panoramic experience to the 21 st of recently painted panoramas, the Century. In their paper they argued that the complexity can even be greater: using in the experience of viewing 360 degrees 21 th century a 19 th century medium for historical scenes, either within the real representing an historical scene. The environment of the panorama or conference proposed to explore the different contemporary virtual environments, arise in layers of history contained in panoramas, part from the attraction of the immersive revealing their changing meaning. Dr. Seth experience. Dr. Blagovesta Momchedjikova Thompson presented his research on cultural looked at pan-stereoramas, or better known heritage. He looked at the representations of as 3D scale models, of New York City and Versailles in France. In 1819 completed John drew a distinction between the terms history Vanderlyn a painted panorama of Versailles and heritage, and ponder whether popular which is now in the permanent exhibition of forms of entertainment concern themselves the Metropolitan Museum of New York. mostly with the latter. She showed the Thompson showed the ways in which this problems that occur with such a model that cultural site was used. Next to the painted quickly gets outdated and showed the thin panorama he placed the Google’s World line between the question of history and Wonders Project of 2012 where he also heritage. looked at the visitors of Versailles nowadays and the differences between the As Namur being the conference location we representation of Vanderlyn and Google. could not have a conference without talks on The question of what to do with these layers the two special still existing panoramas of history were discussed in the paper of Dr. made by Alfred Bastien and in the Gordon Jones. He told the history of the possession of the Royal Military Museum of panorama of The Battle of Atlanta after it Brussels but stored in the military barracks of was made and how it was adjusted to the Namur. Dr. Natasja Peeters and Sandrine taste of the time and became in that way a Smets, M.A. gave a talk on the history of confederate icon. Dr. Patrizia Kern Alfred Bastien’s panoramas the Yser Panoramas of the Battle of Gallipoli/ Panorama and the Meuse Diorama. Prof. Çanakkale also had a similar point of view Axel Tixhon and dr. Bénédicte Rochet talked of looking at the different circumstances further on the developments and context of 3 36 th IPC Newsletter the Battle of the Meuse August 1914 as the by the scenic artist Antoine Fontaine. But on last Belgian panorama. The question of what the other hand the participants could also to do with a remaining diorama and even walk through the City of Luxembourg of the the existing of the original building was
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