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On June 4th, Dom P\u00e9rignon hosted a grand dinner event in Berlin. Some 140 guests sat together for a five course meal in an event that brought the city\u2019s art scene and its business elite rubbing shoulders with each other in the impressive setting of the city hall\u2019s historic B\u00e4rensaal.<\/p>\n
Curator Leo Kuelbs was visibly moved when he presented his \u201eDivine Coalescence\u201d, bringing together a spectacular video installation by Glowing Bulbs and the internationally renowned soprano singer Nadja Michael. He talked about the first time he\u2019d seen her perform at New York\u2019s Metropolitan Opera and thinking to himself \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m going to have burgers with this lady\u201d to plan the performance\/installation.<\/p>\n
Kuelbs, who spends his time between New York and Berlin, specializes in the field of video art and his interpretation of Dom P\u00e9rignon\u2019s heritage was so unique, it succeeded in stunning even the most experienced collectors and art critics in the audience. Christian Boros described it as \u201cmoving.\u201d The video, created especially for this evening, played with the building\u2019s architecture, manipulating the main hall to move between centuries within seconds, from gothic to rococo using projections, and even had a bottle of bubbly \u201cpoured\u201d 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 P\u00e9rignon was created. More material for the projections was filmed in Kuelbs\u2019 Brooklyn studio with the opera singer Nadja Michael, who composed a song for the event, called \u201cDay of the Days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dom P\u00e9rignon 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.<\/p>\n
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