Missing Masterpieces Re-created Digitally
November 13, 2020
Missing Masterpieces is a digital art exhibition featuring some of the world’s most iconic missing works of art. They have been recreated for the first time so that many more people will have the chance to view and admire them. Said collection is directly available via the Art Store in Samsung’s The Frame.
Objective here is to share and spread awareness about these incredible paintings including that from Paysage d’Auvers-sur-Oise ( View of Auvers-sur-Oise ) by Paul Cézanne. This way, they will be digitally preserved even if the originals are lost forever.
During the New Year celebrations in 1999, masterpieces including Chloe & Emma, which was painted by Barbora Kysilkova, and were stolen from a museum in Norway in a cinematic coup where they used smoke etc to avoid the security cameras.
“Art is for everyone, so we created Missing Masterpieces so future generations can enjoy it as well. We want to ensure that invaluable works of art that may never be found can still be experienced again, but in a different form, said Klas Söderström, product manager for TV / AV at Samsung in the Nordics.
The Frame features a design that resembles a painting and works as a regular TV when turned on and displays artwork like a museum piece when turned off. Art Mode can replace the black with a gallery of several high-resolution artworks of your choosing. The Frame is equipped with QLED technology and can display original works.
Missing Masterpieces are available to view for the next 3 months (November 12 – February 10, 2021). They have been produced in collaboration with Dr. Noah Charney, who is an expert in crime related to art and founder of The Association for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA). The exhibition contains masterpieces that global law enforcement agencies are still trying to locate.
