Art Of The Day Weekly

#432 - from 26 May 2016 to 1 June 2016


Rouen 1431, at the times of Joan of Arc, sketch © Asisi.

Joan of Arc at the panorama

ROUEN – History sometimes turns around. In the XIXth century the Panorama was a very popular source of entertainment. It helped relive major battles and discover the large world metropolis. A sign of that popularity can be seen in a street in Paris along the ‘grands boulevards’, in front of the musée Grévin, named to this day the “Passage des Panoramas”. But there are very few original panoramas – mostly of battles. First and foremost, Waterloo (on the site itself), (in Wroclaw), (in Jettysburg). But tastes are visibly cyclical: following the exhibit in Geneva and then at the Mucem in Marseille, the metropolis of Rouen inaugurated in December 2014 a permanent panorama, baptised XXL to underline its dimensions (32 mts. tall, 101 mts. round). The designer, Yadegar Asisi, has become over the last decade the specialist in the discipline, leaving one in Berlin, one in Dresden and one in Leipzig. His latest composition brings back to life the town in Normandy at a key period, the spring of 1431 with the trial and the burning on the stake of Joan of Arc.
Rouen 1431 will open at the Panorama XXL on 28 May 2016.

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