Pergamon2life
Pergamon 2nd Life (“The Second Life of the Pergamon Altar”) is an art project by the author, pantomime and photographer Andrey Alexander ( Moscow ) and the author, circumnavigator and producer Angelika Gebhard from Bad Wiessee . The missing parts of the large frieze of the Pergamon Altar were reproduced in a 30 × 4 meter photo installation .
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The remains of the 113 m long altar, excavated in 1878 under the direction of Carl Humann on the territory of ancient Pergamon , show numerous empty areas. Andrey Alexander completed the missing parts and figures of the gods and giants of the gigantomachy with his own photographs of contemporary athletes , actors and fragments of ancient sculptures . In a five-year process, these photographs were inserted into the gaps in the marble fragments in terms of color, surface structure and design of the details by means of image processing and drawings. A fictional, artistically inspired reconstruction of the original was created. The project was advised by leading European archaeologists and scientists.
Exhibitions
The photo installation was exhibited to the public for the first time from April 22, 2013 to July 21, 2013 in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. The exhibition, which was supplemented by a video and audio installation, attracted around 300,000 visitors.
From June 30 to August 2, 2015, the photo installation was exhibited at the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow. For the first time, the quadriga from the gigantomachy was shown in a 3D reconstruction.
From October 11, 2017 to February 9, 2018, under the patronage of the Bavarian State Minister for Education and Culture, Science and Art , Dr. Ludwig Spaenle , an exhibition of the photo installation entitled The Two Lives of the Pergamon Altar will take place in the Munich Museum for Casts of Classical Images .
Awards
Edition Panorama publisher published “Pergamon 2nd Life” in 2010 in a large-format, perpetual calendar that won the silver medal at the 60th International Calendar Show in Stuttgart .
Web links
- The second life of the Pergamon Altar. ARD-Mittagsmagazin, April 22, 2013, on YouTube
- Opening exhibition giants against gods, on YouTube
- Documentation - Pergamon Fantasy
- Angelika Gebhard - Projects
Individual evidence
- ↑ Written communication from Angelika Gebhard | March 2015
- ^ The project “Pergamon 2nd Life” - pantomime carved out of stone. (No longer available online.) Rag - documentary films, Angelika Gebhard, archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; accessed on February 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The second life of the Pergamon Altar in the project "Giants against Gods". (No longer available online.) Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Moscow, Department for Press and Public Relations, archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; accessed on February 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Personal communication v. Angelika Gebhard | February 2015
- ↑ Personal communication v. Angelika Gebhard | March 2015
- ↑ Exhibitions and Events. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, accessed February 21, 2015 .
- ↑ About the authors. (No longer available online.) Rag - documentary films, Angelika Gebhard, archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; accessed on February 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Shchusev State Museum of Architecture
- ↑ Written communication from Angelika Gebhard | October 2015
- ↑ Written communication from Angelika Gebhard | July 2017
- ↑ Calendar Pergamon Fantasy. (No longer available online.) Rag - documentary films, Angelika Gebhard, archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; accessed on February 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Photo restoration of the Pergamon Altar as a calendar: International recognition. Münchener Zeitungs-Verlag GmbH & Co.KG, accessed on February 21, 2015 .
