History greets Technology in the most recent art exhibition at the Vancouver Convention Centre by Imagine Van Gogh.
Imagine Van Gogh runs March 19 to Aug. 29 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
“It’s always a seduction.” Says Paul Dupont Hebert, who brought Imagine Van Gogh to Vancouver. In this exhibition, you can be awed by over 200 paintings of the renowned Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh , painted between 1888 and 1890 in Provence, Arles, and Auvers-sur-Oise. There are also masterpieces such as “The Starry Night” and “Sunflowers” which are showcased by state-of-the-art, 8 meters tall, digital screens and complemented by classical music of Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Mozart, Satie, and more. The immersive exhibition is laid out and is filling 25,000 square feet of the convention centre. “It’s a romantic musical painting journey, it’s something unbelievable to be in,” Hebert said. “You forget everything, and you spend the most beautiful half-hour.”
Tickets are sold online for scheduled hours and all guests should adhere to COVID-19 health and safety protocols, including mandatory face masks.
Imagine Van Gogh is the effort of Annabelle Mauger and Julien Baron, who worked together on the concept of immersive shows at Cathédrale d’images in Les Baux-de-Provence, utilizing the model of Image Totale© created by Albert Plécy. For Imagine Van Gogh, they used sophisticated methods of multi-projection and immersive audio to add poignant complexity to each persona, conceding us to experience and sense the artistic power of the respected painter.
The notion of the show is magnificent: guests stroll among massive projections of the artist’s paintings, carried away by every brushstroke, feature, painting form, and color. Submerged in an exceptional event where the entire sensation dare fully aroused, audiences will be genuinely moved by such breathtaking splendor.
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