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The  Atelier des Lumières gallery in Paris is holding an exhibition called Yves Klein: Infinite Blue from 28 February 2020 to 3 January 2021.    It is an immersive digital exhibition in which the artworks are displayed on the gallery’s walls and floors. Created specifically for the Atelier des Lumières gallery, Yves Klein: Infinite Blue focuses on the French artist Yves Klein, who aimed to turn his life into a work of art.   The 10-minute visual work presents the artist’s works beyond his famous International Klein Blue (IKB), a colour that is a combination of ultramarine pigment and a special binder. It also includes the prints in the Anthropometrics works, as well as Cosmogonies and Klein’s Planetary Reliefs.   The exhibition is selected from Klein’s 90 works and 60 archived images. The accompanying music to the visual display is a mixture of Antonio Vivaldi’s violins and Thylacine’s electronic rhythms.   From Nice in France, Yves Klein (1928-1962) loved the Mediterranean sky – the c

Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment that Captures the Enigma of our Quantum Reality (2020) is an exploration and explanation of quantum mechanics. Essentially, this book is about one experiment – that has a multitude of questions.  The experiment, devised in the early 1800s by British mathematician Thomas Young (1773-1829), is the opposite of the light theories espoused by British mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1726) and leaned towards the views of Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). Young became known as ‘the last man who knew everything.’ The light experiment that Young devised, at the age of 23, had two slits (holes) – ‘I made a small hole in a window-shutter, and covered it with a piece of thick paper, which I perforated with a fine needle.’ The pinhole let through a ray of light, a sunbeam. ‘I brought into the sunbeam a slip of card … and observed its shadow.’ If the shadow was ‘sharp’ it would prove Newton to be right. If the shadow

The  Atelier des Lumières gallery in Paris is holding an exhibition called Journey: by the creative Nohlab studio from 28 February 2020 to 3 January 2021.   The Turkish collective Nohlab received first prize at the Immersive Art Festival in Paris on 24 October 2019, and is currently on exhibition at t he  Atelier des Lumières gallery.    The collection presents digital designs, with large displays on the walls of the gallery, by some of the most influential artistic collectives in the world of digital arts. Eleven works were adapted to, and designed for, the Atelier des Lumières gallery.    It is a 4-minute show with video, photography, motion design, and surround-sound. It is an experimental journey with the theme of photons, one of the primary elements of light. The journey describes how photons pass through all of the layers of the eye (iris, vitreous humour, optical nerve, etc.) until they reach the neurons and are converted into electrical signals. It describes the process by whic

The  Atelier des Lumières gallery in Paris is holding the ‘Monet, Renoir … Chagall – Journey around the Mediterranean’ exhibition from 28 February 2020 to 3 January 2021.   It includes the works of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Camille Pissarro, Henri Matisse, Paul Signac, André Derain, Henri-Edmond Cross, Charles Camoin, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, and others – in fact, 20 artists. All of the artists were influenced by Vincent Van Gogh, who used pure colour as his principal means of expression.    The exhibition of artists spans the period between Impressionism and Modernism. It is a digital light exhibition – large and immersive.    In the 1880s, the Mediterranean shores attracted many artists who left Paris for the southern coast between Collioure and Saint-Tropez for a sea change. They developed a new approach to the representation of light and colour. They all had links to the Mediterranean, either through their origins or through