The panorama of the Battle of Morat, the famous defeat of the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold against the formidable Confederates, has been entirely digitized. The spectacular result is presented to the public for the first time at the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF).
An EPFL workshop digitized 100 meters of this canvas, until now stored in a military warehouse, after being exhibited in Jean Nouvel’s cube at Expo 02. Its digitization required 28,000 photographs, taken under the led by Sarah Kenderdine, head of the experimental museology laboratory at EPFL
“The canvas was painted in 1893. It illustrates an extremely important event in Swiss history: this battle against the kingdom of Burgundy of Charles the Bold, and its defeat,” explains Sarah Kenderdine in the 7:30 p.m.
“Rehabilitate the senses”
“One of the things we did was to rehabilitate the senses, to make it a multisensory work. So we developed an olfactory necklace that you put around your neck. And you can therefore imagine the smell that a person can have. battle scene: blood, sweat, the smell of goat and horse droppings,” continues the museologist.
“When you zoom into the work with its rich soundscape, it’s truly a powerful experience, it’s so alive. You can move between the different audio thresholds until you hear the painter applying his paint to the canvas. We really looked at the materiality of the painting,” adds Sarah Kenderdine.
Digitizing the panorama of the Battle of Morat also allows the work to travel, notably to Hong Kong next week, then San Francisco. The GIFF is its starting point here. On view until Sunday.
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