Dom Pérignon’s Divine Coalescence

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On June 4th, Dom Pérignon hosted a grand dinner event in Berlin. Some 140 guests sat together for a five course meal in an event that brought the city’s art scene and its business elite rubbing shoulders with each other in the impressive setting of the city hall’s historic Bärensaal.

Curator Leo Kuelbs was visibly moved when he presented his „Divine Coalescence”, bringing together a spectacular video installation by Glowing Bulbs and the internationally renowned soprano singer Nadja Michael. He talked about the first time he’d seen her perform at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and thinking to himself “I can’t believe I’m going to have burgers with this lady” to plan the performance/installation.

Kuelbs, who spends his time between New York and Berlin, specializes in the field of video art and his interpretation of Dom Pérignon’s heritage was so unique, it succeeded in stunning even the most experienced collectors and art critics in the audience. Christian Boros described it as “moving.” The video, created especially for this evening, played with the building’s architecture, manipulating the main hall to move between centuries within seconds, from gothic to rococo using projections, and even had a bottle of bubbly “poured” down from the ceiling. The atmospheric footage used by Glowing Bulbs originated from Versaille and from the convent in Hautvillers in the Champagne region, where Dom Pérignon was created. More material for the projections was filmed in Kuelbs’ Brooklyn studio with the opera singer Nadja Michael, who composed a song for the event, called “Day of the Days.”

Dom Pérignon has a long history of creative co-operations, from Karl Lagerfeld to Sylvie Fleury, Robert Wilson, David Lynch and Lang Lang to name a few.

 

 

 

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