Art gallery

To preserve and to engage

When we have first thought about the possibility to enter the painting – it seemed crazy. This is why took the job. We accepted the challenge and started with a research for project that aimed to create a virtual gallery which people could not only access from any part of the world, but also to interact with art in the most unique way possible. Our research process mainly focused on the problems that galleries and museums face today. We found out that there is a big lack of interaction between the user and the art piece. Especially when the talk is going about traditional museums and the artefacts they preserve. Moreover, mentioning preservation, couple of incidents around the world in the past few years have shown that relics placed on exhibition are hard to preserve without any harm. Therefore the question of precise preservation method occured as well as the option for comparing the relic once it was found to the one after a few decades of intensive exhibition. We have also confronted with additional aspects such as the lack of renovation in some of the older galleries as well as not intriguing presentation of art information. While examining the use cases and closely talking with various galleries and museums across the Europe we come up with couple of possible solutions for the era of modern galleries. Not only we implemented the possibility to recreate the exact building of a gallery standing somewhere in a small town of Spain called Figueres, but also to create a brand new engaging gallery environments for exposing the art. After all the place was decided, we implemented our 3D scan technology and used it for monument preservation as well as placement in virtual reality – a place where it would stand on exhibition forever.