iArtipelag · Värmdö
Immersive Artbox show on Alphonse Mucha: his Paris posters, the 1900 Universal Exhibition and the Slav Epic, told with projection, sound and scent. Closed 13–16 and 20–22 Oct.
The first film opens on the plains of Moravia and the church at Ivančice, Mucha's home town, then cuts to the streets of Paris and the Théâtre de la Renaissance. You stand in the Artbox with it projected over the walls and the floor, his ornaments blown up to monumental scale, to music written for the show and a scent made for it.
Grand Palais Immersif made it in Paris with the Mucha Foundation. It runs in three acts: the poster years, the 1900 Universal Exhibition and the Slav Epic, and the producer puts that main film at 29 minutes. A last section traces his line into flower power, manga, superheroes, street art and tattoos. If a tattoo artist once talked you into "something art nouveau", this is where it came from.
Tickets are SEK 295 and under-12s go free. It is closed 13–16 and 20–22 October and ends 31 October; on Wednesday 28 October it runs until 21:30 for After Hours, at SEK 125.
Five posters, traced line by line
Look for the act one sequence on Gismonda, JOB, The Lady of the Camellias, The Trappistine and Monaco Monte Carlo, with animated lines running along their curves to pick out details.
The Bosnia-Herzegovina pavilion, 1900
Act two sails down the Seine during the Universal Exhibition and stops at the pavilion, taking you inside to the frescoes Mucha painted for it.
The Slav Epic at Zbiroh
The last act travels to Zbiroh castle and parades his giant canvases of Slav history, which he meant as a pacifist model for the world.
The corridor of influences
The closing section sets Mucha beside 1960s flower power, manga, superheroes, street art and tattoo designs, with scents along the way.
You have photosensitive epilepsy: Artipelag warns the lighting in this show is intense.
Under-12s get in free and 12 to 18s pay SEK 195. Artipelag bills it as an experience for all ages, but warns of intense lighting.