MONET´S GARDEN
A place to enjoy, to play and to learn about the insights of the Impressionists.
Monet, founder of impressionism, considered his garden at Giverny as -in his own words- his “most beautiful masterpiece”. Monet´s garden is a representation of the Giverny landscape that physically and poetically surrounds the viewer. We have recreated this fabulous place though the famous water lily pond, the iconic Japanese bridge, the house and his studio, as the perfect scenario for having a series of interactive and visual installations that allow people to discover, to experience, to admire and to understand the Impressionist technique and its main interests:
Light, Color and Brush stroke
LIGHT
The light is the subject. Persistent experimentation with lighting, the pursuit of capturing and expressing the light through a given moment, without focusing on the identity of the model.
Claude Monet painted the same subject in varying environments to demonstrate how changes in light can affect color. Through projections, we will replicate the big format of Monet's canvases to give the audience the opportunity to experience how forms are diluted, mixed or separated inaccurately depending on the light to which they are subjected.
COLOR
The use of pure and saturated colors with a reduce palette achieving a rich chromatic contrast and not blending colors but juxtapose them.
The relation between music and color has been studied and applied in many different ways, most of them associating the frequencies of sound with frequencies of light. In this particular case, we have linked all complementary colors seen in the picture with Debussy´s Claire de Lune relying on its tonal key and how the notes are related to each other in the harmonic series. In music, the harmonic series is the relation between notes and their sequence of frequencies. The colour pink is set right in the middle of the painting playing the same role as the key centre of the musical piece. Hence, the notes from the melody will light up the colors based on these principles.
BRUSH STROKE
A determined brushwork. Fragmented strokes of pure colors resulted in a vibrant whole that depicts the spontaneous nature of their work.
Photos & videos: WOW factor
Creative Direction
Roman Beranek
Itziar Arriaga
Ivan Val
Written by
Roman Riklin
Monet Expert & Editor
Daniela Thiel
Concept
Christian Indermaur
Immanuel Wagner
Roman Riklin
Executive Producers & Producers
Andreas Schessl
Nepomuk Schessl
Nick Hellenbroich
Darko Soolfrank
Philippe Trawnika
Guido Schilling
Production Management
Roman Beranek
Alexa Meierhofer
Anja Diggelmann
Motion Artists
Lead 2d: Javier Burgos
Lead 3d: Mario Jimenez
2d and 3d artists
Alberto Vega
Adolfo Ruiz Mayoral
Cesar Ruiz
Enrique Mulero
Jaime Gutierrez
Lucia Rodríguez
Itziar Arriaga
Ivan Val
Creative technologist and technical artist
Nacho Cossio
Music Supervisor & Sound Design
Sergio Geval
Nick Hellenbroich
Sound Design & Mix
Guido Keller
Technics & Sound & Planning
Okula AG
estec visions gmbh
Produced by
Projektil
MAAG Music & Arts
Alegria
Partner
Lichthalle MAAG
Immersive Art
Alegria
Media & other Partners
SRF2 Kultur
SonntagsZeitung
Orell Füssli
Zürich Tourismus
VBZ
Marketing
WOW Factor GmbH
Silke Sasse,
Selina Nickel
Nova Konietzny