We can’t tell you where “Gogh” to see the Immersive Van Gogh exhibition in Pittsburgh – this detail will be revealed through the manufacturer in the next month or so – however, more than 34,000 tickets have already been sold.
The exhibition, which projects projections of dutch Impressionist Vincent van Gogh’s paintings on the walls and floors, begins on September 21 and takes a position on Thanksgiving. Ticket costs start at $39. 99. The charm will stop in thirteen cities this year. Sites in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago have already extended Van Gogh’s tenure until 2022.
Lighthouse Immersive co-producer Corey Ross says the exhibition is new to art and compares it to the way a DJ samples beats other songs to create an entirely new beat.
Italian film maker and virtual artist Massimiliano Siccardi – who is artistic director of Lighthouse – has been orchestrating immersion for 30 years. Ross describes Siccardi as “the Steven Spielberg of installation art exhibitions. “To create his masterpiece through Vincent van Gogh, who debuted in Paris in 2018, Siccardi organized 60,600 video images, 9,000,000 pixels and 500,000 cubic feet of projections, all with music through Luca Longobardi.
They’re not just static photographs in a frame; Visitors buy a scheduled price ticket that allows them to literally enter animated art to see sunflowers sway and the starry sky twinkling. The circles projected on the floor help others to their social distance when they explore, however, they can browse the exhibition so many times. you are encouraged to take photos (without flash) and post on Instagram.
Most visitors spend more than an hour marveling at the brushstrokes and paint drops in Van Gogh’s magnified work. Capacity will be limited in accordance with the City of Pittsburgh Covid protocols, whatever they may be at that time. Additional security measures come with contactless tickets, on-arrival temperature controls and hand disinfection stations. All visitors must wear a face mask at all times of their visit.
It takes about a month to install all projectors and fiber optic cables in the program. Ross says he’s looking for giant empty buildings that have an ancient or architectural meaning. In Toronto, for example, another 200,000 people were leaked through the Toronto Star Building. , which once housed the newspaper’s printing presses, to see Immersive Van Gogh. The Fillmore, San Francisco’s original rock and roll monument, also hosted the event. .
Vincent van Gogh’s paintings were not held until after his death in 1890. The artist spent a lot of time in isolation, which Ross believes everyone can identify with the pandemic.
“I think other people will consider this screen to be very cathartic,” he says.