Panorama Pope Yadegar Asisi (65), after “Dresden 1945” and “Leipzig 1813” with “NEW YORK 9/11”, completes his war tryptich in the Panometer Leipzig.
Leipzig / Dresden – Panorama Pope Yadegar Asisi (65) completes his war triptych after “Dresden 1945” and “Leipzig 1813”. This late summer he is opening his eighth 360-degree panorama in the Panometer with “NEW YORK 9/11” Leipzig.
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For the artist Yadegar Asisi (65), working in the pandemic is a special challenge. © asisi
Various street scenes are shown on the round picture, on a seemingly normal morning in the New York borough of Manhattan – a few moments before the attack on September 11, 2001.
You can see garbage collectors, police officers, people on their way to work, tourists in front of the World Trade Center.
Asisi recreated these scenes on two days last week at photo shoots with 30 previously selected extras in Berlin. The recordings are then processed with Photoshop and inserted into the image.
“This year, the shooting was a real challenge due to the current situation. In times like these, the question about our response to violence and the perceived loss of control is once again given a very special meaning and, above all, relevance to September 11th” , says Yadegar Asisi.
His third anti-war project was originally supposed to open on July 3rd in Leipzig. On the 20th anniversary of the attack, it should definitely work.
A lot is happening behind the scenes in the Dresden Panometer. The work on the cape is currently in progress: after two years, “Dresden 45” is being “rolled up” and the panorama “Dresden in the Baroque” is being opened again.
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Asisi has a special relationship with Dresden: from 1973 to 1978 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden and graduated with a degree in architecture before he had to leave the GDR in the same year.
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