{"id":9327,"date":"2018-02-09T06:57:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T06:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vr-room.ch\/?p=9327"},"modified":"2018-02-06T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T12:24:20","slug":"klimts-bildwelt-in-vr-erleben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-room.ch\/en\/2018\/02\/09\/klimts-bildwelt-in-vr-erleben\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience Klimt's world of images in VR"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark the 100th anniversary of Gustav Klimt's death, VR artist and filmmaker Frederick Baker has transformed one of his major works into a landscape that can be entered via VR glasses for the Museum of Applied Arts.<\/h3>\n

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Bringing art and life together, enveloping people in beauty, was a declared goal of Art Nouveau. That is why digital artist Frederick Baker is pretty sure that Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) would have been enthusiastic about VR. And especially, of course, of the installation Klimt's Magic Garden, which Baker is showing at the Museum of Applied Arts (Mak) to mark the 100th anniversary of Klimt's birth: Anyone who puts on the VR glasses will find themselves in the middle of Klimt's visual world.<\/p>\n

The floor of this hilly landscape is studded with shimmering golden ornaments; spiralling, ornate trees tower above you all around. Triangular patterns flow down as waterfalls, and at some point you find yourself standing in a rain of eyes and squiggles. The horrendously kitschy, but worth experiencing VR trip is inspired by Klimt's mosaic frieze for the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. Baker has combined set pieces to create a fantasy that is somewhere between post-apocalypse and Alice in Wonderland (in the style of Tim Burton).<\/p>\n