You have to tick a little differently than most people to be able to inspire precisely this many people. Yadegar Asisi, the creator of seventeen 360-degree panoramas with themes as diverse as "Dresden in the Baroque" or "Dresden 1945" to the Amazon and - now on display in the Dresden Panometer - the "Great Barrier Reef". The architect-artist Asisi originally conceived this spectacular depiction of the underwater world for the Panometer in Leipzig, where it was on display from 2015 to 2017. "But my team has gone one better for this exhibition!" emphasized Asisi - whose staff know how to use the advances in technology to recycle the exhibition: better light! Better sound! And, of course, improved images. Because no two Panometers are the same.
Panometer is a made-up word that didn't exist before Yadegar Asisi's idea of repurposing old gas storage facilities that were no longer needed. The two terms "panorama" and "gasometer" come together here, as well as completely new worlds. The Great Barrier Reef off the north-east coast of Australia is in real life with a length of 2,300 kilometers the largest contiguous collection of over 2,900 individual coral reefs on earth. The Great Barrier Reef covers an area of around 347,800 km² and can be seen with the naked eye from space. Compressing this world onto the rather large canvas in the Dresden Panometer (27 meters high with a circumference of 106 meters) is a challenge. But there are artists at work, and they are allowed to compress and, if necessary, idealize.
