Exhibition
An Era in Jinling by Deji Art Museum
16 May 2024 – 18 May 2024
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 45 Rue La Boétie
- Paris
Île-de-France - 75008
- France
An Era in Jinling: A Digital Art Exhibition will make its debut in Paris and showcase the culture of China’s thousand-year-old ancient capital - Nanjing
About
In conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and France and the Year of China-France Culture and Tourism, the Deji Art Museum will present An Era in Jinling: A Digital Art Exhibition on May 16, 2024 at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, France. The exhibition breaks new ground by introducing cutting-edge technology in the digitization of cultural artifacts for an immerseive and interactive experience. This mode allows the audience to “enter” the ancient painting in a first-person perspective, communicating and interacting with the characters in the painting.
At the Deji Art Museum, An Era in Jinling: A Digital Art Exhibition adopts a giant 110-meter-long, 3.6-meter-high panoramic LED screen to magnify the heritage handscroll most representative of Nanjing, An Era in Jinling, by 100 times. The production of the exhibition made bold attempts at innovation by gathering top experts in Hollywood movie technology, a military-grade positioning system, and next-generation 3D sound effects. Comprising nearly 400 staff members, the technical team worked for two years to realize a technological breakthrough consisting of a three-terminal interconnection of an ultra-wide band (UWB) indoor positioning system, a Unity engine, and a self-developed intelligent management system. The audience can experience the bustling Jinling market and pinpoint locations with precision down to a single-digit centimeter accuracy. Through the autonomous decision-making mobile interactive mode, they can get acquainted with senior officials, talk to merchants and vendors, and closely communicate and interact with 533 warm and welcoming characters in the painting, in turn, reading and touring the splendid cultural landscape of the ancient capital Nanjing.
An Era in Jinling by Feng Ning of the Qing dynasty is an important treasure of traditional Chinese culture and art that vividly depicts the cityscape of Nanjing and the social life of all classes in ancient times. As an important permanent exhibition of the ‘Art of Jinling’ collection at the Deji Art Museum, An Era in Jinling: A Digital Art Exhibition has become a must-see exhibition in Nanjing in the hearts of many tourists. In November 2023, An Era in Jinling: A Digital Art Exhibition was exhibited outside China for the first time, and it received a warm response in the United States due to its unique form of interactive viewing. This form of technological art exhibition effectively encouraged foreign audiences to explore China's ancient culture and invigorated humanistic exchanges between the two countries. This May, the Deji Art Museum will excerpt the scenes depicting classical academy halls filled with reciting musicians as well as monumental fortified outposts from the 110-meter interactive scroll at the Nanjing Xinjiekou museum and restore the prosperous scene of China's Song dynasty in the Salle Gaveau in Paris. In addition, there will be an interactive display equipped with an AR graphic scanning function that identifies the characters, architecture, and other elements in An Era in Jinling that also shows in detail today’s Nanjing.