Let there be light!

The art of Marc Chagall and Paul Klee is now dancing in the Atelier des Lumières. Mademoiselle Lili turns with them.

The artist, whose paintings depict lovers floating over cities and the firmament, is now taking off himself from a former iron foundry in Paris, where the first digital art museum opened in 2018. "Chagall - Paris, New York" is the name of the new impressive art opera in which music, images and locations merge in a visual and acoustic firework: 60 loudspeakers that fill the old factory building with music ranging from classical to jazz to rock. 140 projectors firing 3000 digital frames per second. Everything spins, everything moves, everything flows, from floor to ceiling, and you float right in the middle. This sensory experience, which now has the whole world at its feet, is called immersive

I was deeply impressed when I first checked in there for an amazing, immersive journey to Vienna, to the work of Gustav Klimt. The moment in the hall of mirrors, a small extra room in the hall, is unforgettable. I lay down on the floor with the others and virtually floated through infinity, in an endless reflected stream of images in which there is no more up and down - like spinning inside a huge kaleidoscope to waltz music.

While the reputable culture watchdogs denounced the Tik Tokization of art in the face of this completely unpedagogical, visual and acoustic loop, the French makers, Culturespaces, had laid a golden egg. Even Chagall's granddaughter, Meret Meyer, supports the new project: "My grandfather would have enjoyed it too," she said at the opening. From the dome of the Paris Opera Garnier, which Marc Chagall painted in 1964, it is not far to the chimneys of the old iron foundry, over which not only his digitized images but also historical photos of Paris and the New York skyline flow. Since 2018, more than a million visitors per year have been regularly immersing themselves in the immersive picture ballet with changing artists and, like me, simply enjoy this new sensory experience.

Like the Lumières brothers (they were really called that), who invented the cinema in Lyon, a new form of art exhibition was born in the Atelier des Lumières, the workshop of lights, which is already catching on at eight other locations worldwide: Culturespaces exported it Successful concept already to Les-Baux-de-Provence, Bordeaux, Amsterdam, Jeju and Seoul in South Korea, Dubai, New York and Dortmund and next year also in Hamburg's Hafen-City.

This time, unlike the first time, I got it right. After five minutes I put the smartphone in my pocket, stopped filming, taking snaps and posting as if out of my mind, and instead let the rain of images and the virtual shooting stars trickle down on me completely unfiltered. Like a well-tempered wellness shower that sweetens your day.