Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
'Pompeii' Exhibit Montreal [exhibit installation design]
Image View:
Gallery featuring 14 plaster casts of Pompeii victims with film, Soleil noir, by Laurent Grasso projected
Creator:
Atelier In Situ (Canadian architectural firm, founded 1995); Laurent Grasso (French artist, born 1972); Lysanne Pépin (Canadian designer, born ca. 1965)
Location:
exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Location Note:
1380 Sherbrooke Street West (exhibition location)
GPS:
45.4987-73.5801
Date:
ca. 2014-2016 (exhibition)
Cultural Context:
Canadian
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
installation (visual work)
Work Type 2:
multimedia work
Work Type 3:
traveling exhibition
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
projected digital images; soundtrack; 16 mm film; display cases and bases
Technique:
electronic imaging
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); historical; Museology; Pompeii (Extinct city)
Description:
The exhibition featured over 220 archaeological artifacts in a unique multisensorial environment. It sought to bring to life the everyday environment of Pompeii against the dramatic backdrop of the final day and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. A seven minute multimedia presentation created by Montreal-based Graphics eMotion captured the different phases of the nineteen-hour eruption. Fourteen casts of the victims were presented in a gallery with Soleil noir (Black Sun), a contemporary (2014) 16mm film by French video artist Laurent Grasso. The exhibition was presented in both Toronto and Montreal in collaboration with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli and the Soprintendenza Pompei. The MMFA worked with the architectural firm In Situ, Uniform, Graphics eMotion, as well as Lysanne Pépin, for the exhibition design, under the direction of Nathalie Bondil, Director and Chief Curator of the MMFA, and Sandra Gagné, Head of Exhibitions Production. (Source: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; http://www.mmfa.qc.c a/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Twelve
Identifier:
1A2-C-M-NAM-E-A12
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

'Pompeii' Exhibit Montreal [exhibit installation design]