Yadegar Asisi

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Yadegar Asisi, 2017

Yadegar Asisi (born April 8, 1955 in Vienna ; actually Yadegar Asisi Namini ) is an artist , architect and former university professor . He creates the largest 360 ° panoramas in the world, up to 32 meters high and up to 110 meters in circumference.

Life

Asisi is the son of Persian parents. He was born in Vienna with his four older siblings from Iran to Europe while his mother was fleeing . His father was one of twenty communist officers who were betrayed and executed by the Shah of Persia . He spent childhood and school in Halle (Saale) and Leipzig . From 1973 to 1978 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden and graduated with a degree in architecture. In 1978 he was asked to leave the GDR. This was followed by a study of painting at the University of the Arts in Berlin from 1978 to 1984. From 1987 to 1994, Asisi had a teaching position for perspective drawing at this university; in 1991 he was visiting professor in the architecture department. From 1996 to 2008 he was professor for free representation in the architecture department at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin .

After several prizes in urban planning competitions - together with his colleagues from the Brandt-Asisi-Böttcher architectural office, Asisi received the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1989 for the design of the terminal station of the Berlin maglev train - Asisi turned in the early 1990s Years, especially the panorama displays. Since 2003 he has been creating the largest panoramas in the world.

With his monumental panorama pictures he ties in with the great panoramas of the 19th century. Panometer is a word created by the artist, formed by contracting the words panorama and gasometer . It describes a converted former gasometer , which today serves as an exhibition building for 360-degree panoramas and as a special event location.

Yadegar Asisi in his studio
Yadegar Asisi in the studio

The Panometer Leipzig has existed since 2003, the Panometer Dresden since December 2006. The first Asisi panorama 8848Everest360 ° in the Panometer Leipzig was viewed by around 450,000 visitors between 2003 and the beginning of 2005. Other locations are Berlin (Panorama Rotunda in the courtyard of the Pergamon Museum and asisi Panorama Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie ), the Pforzheim Gasometer in Baden-Württemberg, the "Wittenberg360" in Lutherstadt Wittenberg , the "Panorama am Zoo" at the Hannover Adventure Zoo and the “Panorama XXL” in Rouen , France. Large-format panorama presentations can be seen at all exhibition locations, the largest over 100 meters long and around 30 meters high. An approximately 3000 square meter picture consists of individual lengths of polyester fabric and weighs 750 kilograms.

Asisi lives in Berlin and has his studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

photos

  • Everest in Leipzig (2003-2005, 2012, 2013)

  • Rome 312 (2005–2009 in Leipzig, 2011–2012 in Dresden)

  • Rome 312 (2014-2018 in Pforzheim, 2014-2015 and 2018-2019 in Rouen)

  • Dresden Barock in Dresden (2006–2015, since 2015 annually from June to January)

  • Amazonia (2009–2012 in Leipzig, 2015–2016 in Rouen, since November 2017 in Hanover)

  • Pergamon in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin (2011–2012 and since 2018)

  • The wall in the asisi Panorama Berlin (since 2012)

  • Dresden 1945 in Dresden (since 2015 annually from January to June)

  • Great Barrier Reef (2015–2017 in the Panometer Leipzig, September 2017–2018 in Rouen, since 2018 in Pforzheim)

  • Luther 1517 in Wittenberg (since 2016)

  • Titanic (2017-2019 in Leipzig, 2019-2020 in Rouen)

  • Both gasometers in the Reick district of Dresden - the panometer in front

Panoramas

The music for the respective exhibitions was composed by Eric Babak .

  • Everest was the artist's first giant panorama and was shown in the Leipzig Panometer from 2003 to 2005; in 2012 and 2013 it could be seen again in Leipzig . The panorama leads on an expedition into the Himalayas . From the last base camp before the ascent, the view of Mount Everest and the surrounding eight-thousanders opens up from a height of 6000 meters .
  • Rome 312 was shown for the first time from 2005 to 2009 in Leipzig, then 2011–2012 in Dresden and from December 2014 in Pforzheim and Rouen (France). In Pforzheim, a historic gasometer was converted, and in Rouen a special rotunda was built on the Seine . You can discover late ancient Rome in its architectural heyday in 312 AD and at the turn of the times of Emperor Constantine .
  • Dresden im Barock shows alternating with Dresden 1945 in summer, autumn and winter in Dresden the baroque Florence on the Elbe , u. a. inspired by Canaletto's vedute . As if from the tower of the Catholic Court Church , the visitor looks at the Elbe Valley and looks at the old town and beyond the Elbe the new town of Dresden between the years 1697 and 1763, the Augustan period when the Saxon electors were kings of Poland in personal union . An accompanying exhibition with room installations introduce visitors to the topic and history of the Dresden Baroque .
  • Since 2015, Dresden 1945 has alternated with Dresden in Baroque style in the first quarter of the year in Dresden, showing the destroyed Florence on the Elbe after the Allied bombing raids in February 1945. The focus of the visitor is from the town hall tower, on the edge of the old town, on February 15, 1945 in the afternoon. Accompanying room installations introduce visitors to the topic and contemporary history from around 1900 to 1945. In 2015, the panorama was the highlight of Dresden's year of commemoration for 70 years of destruction and was seen by almost 165,000 visitors in four months.
  • Amazonia is a panorama painting that shows the world of the South American rainforest ( Amazon basin ) on a 360 ° panorama with an area of ​​over 3200 square meters. It was shown for the first time in Leipzig from 2009 to 2012 and also in Rouen in 2015/2016. It has been in Hanover since November 2017 . You experience a whole day from sunrise to sunset and night and can also experience a typical thunderstorm. The panorama is rounded off by an exhibition on the flora and fauna of the Amazon basin, data and facts from its exploration through z. B. Alexander von Humboldt and a giant model of a mosquito .
  • Pergamon - Panorama of the Ancient Metropolis was shown in cooperation with the Antikensammlung of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Asisi's second panorama of antiquities was on view from October 2011 through September 2012 in the courtyard of the Pergamon Museum on Berlin's Museum Island and was an attraction of the first comprehensive exhibition of the same name by the collection of antiquities on the culture, everyday life and importance of the ancient city of Pergamon - today Bergama in Turkey. in the north wing of the Pergamon Museum. The panorama shows the much-praised architecture and surrounding landscape of Pergamon and depicts life in Roman times , during the reign of Emperor Hadrian . a. the artistic reconstruction of part of the frieze of the Pergamon Altar, which can be viewed in the museum. In addition, numerous exhibits in the museum - some of them exhibited for the first time - could be found in Asisi's 360 ° panorama and can thus be classified in their everyday life in antiquity. You can see a whole day in ancient times from sunrise to sunset and also during the night in Pergamon. The panorama has been - revised - in the temporary building Pergamonmuseum since November 2018 . The panorama, including an extensive exhibition,can be seenat the Kupfergraben opposite the Bode Museum until 2024.
  • The wall has been on display since September 2012 in a rotunda built especially for the panorama at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. It shows a view of the facilities of the Berlin Wall on a gray November day in the 1980s in Sebastianstrasse. Yadegar Asisi condenses numerous aspects of the Cold War in a panorama. It shows his personal relationship to the Wall and shows how everyday life and at the same time subtly cruel life in the divided city was.
  • Leipzig 1813 is another panorama from Asisi. It was shown from 2013 to 2015 in the Panometer Leipzig and has the theme of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig from the perspective of the city of Leipzig from the tower of St. Thomas Church . The panorama was part of the Leipzig anniversary year of Leipzig 1813–1913–2013 .
  • Great Barrier Reef is a 360 ° panorama that shows the underwater world of the Great Barrier Reef on a giant panorama with an area of ​​around 3500 square meters. It was on view in the Panometer Leipzig from 2015 to 2017 and in Rouen from 2017 to 2018. It has been on display in Pforzheim since November 2018. The viewer experiences an underwater expedition off the northeast coast of Australia .
  • Rouen 1431 takes you on a journey through time to the late Gothic to France and Normandy . In the footsteps of Joan of Arc, visitors experience a whole day in an era on the eve of dawn into modern times . It premiered in 2016 at Panorama XXL in Rouen. The panorama was accompanied by a small introductory exhibition about the city of Rouen and the Hundred Years War between England and France. A multitude of Gothic buildings and scenes depict the life of time.
  • Titanic was on display in the Panometer Leipzig from January 2017 to January 2019, and this will be in Rouen from June 2019. The 360 ​​° panorama takes visitors on an expedition to the remains of the shipwreck in 3800 meters of the North Atlantic .
  • Carola's garden in the Panometer Leipzig leads to a completely normal garden from January 2019 to the end of 2020. The visitors assume the perspective of an insect - flowers, blossoms, plants, insects and other animals are magnified tens of times. Central is a gigantic bee pollinating a chamomile . Around 100 watercolors, acrylic paintings, photographs and film contributions by Yadegar Asisi are shown as an introduction, which illustrate his approach to the topic. The project is presented by the art theorist Bazon Brock . In addition, eight XXL insect models by the specialist Hamburg designer Julia Stoess were integrated into the exhibition .
  • The Cathedral of Monet has been showing the square of the Cathedral of Rouen in the Impressionist style since July 2020 in Rouen based on the series of paintings on the Cathedral of Claude Monet . For the first time, a panorama was made entirely in oil before it was digitally enlarged and printed on canvas. The introductory exhibition focuses on the artistic debates of the epoch and the creation process of the panorama.

Honors (selection)

literature

  • Berlin 2005: Architectural Panoramas; Exhibition June / July 1995, Aedes East, Hackesche Höfe / Yadegar Asisi , Berlin, Aedes 1995.
  • Yadegar Asisi: Architect of Illusions , Leipzig, Faber & Faber 2004. ISBN 3-936618-43-7 .

Web links

Commons : Yadegar Asisi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "We were foreigners from the very beginning". In: welt.de. March 4, 2016, accessed October 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ MDR broadcast on February 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ MDR broadcast on February 3, 2015
  4. ↑ Worlds Largest Panoramas by yadegar Asisi. In: Eric Babak's website. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Die Zeit , May 22, 2003: [1]
  6. ↑ Die Welt , December 4, 2014: [2]
  7. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel , June 11, 2014: [3]
  8. ↑ Torsten Hampel: The memorial task. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 9, 2014.
  9. ↑ Focus , November 20, 2017: [4]
  10. ↑ Deutschlandfunk Kultur , December 27, 2017: [5]
  11. ↑ Schirn Mag , September 29, 2017: [6]
  12. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel , July 29, 2013: [7]
  13. ↑ Wired , October 13, 2015: [8]
  14. ↑ My France : [9]
  15. ↑ GEO , 01/2017: [10]
  16. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 30, 2017: [11]
  17. ↑ Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , January 25, 2019: [12]
  18. ↑ Giant insects in the Leipzig Panometer , MDR from January 31, 2020, accessed June 18, 2020
  19. ↑ Monet's Cathedral. Art in Berlin, July 12, 2020.
  20. ↑ [13] , September 9, 2015
  21. ^ Church newspaper , February 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Asisi, Yadegar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asisi Namini, Yadegar; Azizi Namini, Yadegar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Iranian architect and artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna