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Culturespaces’s newest digital gallery space in Bordeaux pulls its visitors into the immersive worlds of art, both older and contemporary


Below left A still from one of the opening exhibitions, ‘Paul Klee:


Painting music’


LES BASSINS DE LUMIÈRES, BORDEAUX Founded in 1990,


Culturespaces is a private operator in managing monuments, museums and art centres around the world. Since 2012, it has become a pioneer in the creation of digital art centres and digital immersive exhibits. Les Bassins de Lumières joins the organisation’s two other French digital art centres, but has a surface area three times the size of the Carrières de Lumières in Les Baux-de-Provence, and five times the Atelier des Lumières in Paris. Like its smaller


forerunners, this latest venue from Culturespaces will present monumental immersive digital exhibitions of major artists. With 12,000m2


of


projection surface and 3,000m2


of itinerary floor


space, the huge expanse of the former submarine base matches the


ambitious scale of these exhibitions. This is further enhanced by the reflective possibilities of four enormous water basins, each 110m long, 22m wide and 12m deep – a total surface area of 13,000m2


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Visitors will move through the space on gangways above the water and along the quays of the enormous basins. A total of 90 video projectors and 80 speakers are used to create the experience. While the emphasis is on literally displaying old works in a new light, a space called Le Cube will be devoted to contemporary artists that specialise in immersive art. It will present works by established and up-and- coming digital artists. The gallery’s opening exhibitions were called ‘Gustav Klimt: Gold and colour’ and ‘Paul Klee: Painting music’. bassins-lumieres.com


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