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These following images are part of the installation and opening festivities surrounding the exhibition we organized for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. ILLUSIONS OF REALITY. NATURALIST PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND CINEMA, 1875-1918 opened at the Van Gogh Museum in early October 2010; it will eventually move onto the Ateneum Museum in Helsinki, Finland as the second venue. Examining the Naturalist movement in painting on an international basis the exhibition also considered the ways in which multi-media were influential in the making of paintings (such as photography and theatrical performances of plays by Emile Zola) and the ways in which paintings influenced early cinema especially with films developed from novels by Zola such as La Terre and Germinal. Mercatorfonds published the catalogue for the exhibition in six separate language editions (English, Dutch, French, German, Swedish and Finnish).
The installation of Illusions of Reality at the Ateneum Museum in Helsinki reflected the way in which a nineteenth century building and its gallery spaces could be easily adapted for the large scale of the majority of the paintings in the exhibition. Enthusiastic crowds and a very positive press reaction guaranteed continued interest in the exhibition at the second venue of the exhibition where the show will be until mid May 2011.
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