Julian Hölscher
VIVID CANVAS

Studio Julian Hölscher develops media installations and scenographies. Their work emerges from the interplay of technology, art and design.

The source material for this projection mapping by Julian Hölscher is the painting "Das Eismeer" (The Sea of Ice) by Caspar David Friedrich from 1824 and selected diary entries by sailors who travelled in the polar seas 200 years ago. The designer animates the static painting reproduction with a projection that re-choreographs the various pictorial elements. Thomas Werner also developed a soundtrack that combines atmospheric soundscapes with spoken text excerpts. 

The installation contextualises the historical painting, whose title in the 19th century was: "Ideal scene of an Arctic sea, a ship foundering under the towering masses of ice". This description makes it clear that the painting is an invention by Caspar David Friedrich. He had the disaster of an expedition ship in the polar region in mind, as he had read the reports of sailors. The ice floes were modelled on observations of the frozen Elbe. This form of mixing event and invention is known today as "mixed reality".