A child steps on an image while two other visitors study "The Bedroom" (1889) at the “Van Gogh Alive – The Experience,” which provides visitors a unique way of knowing the Dutch painter and his art. (Photo : www.grandeexhibitions.com)
It wasn’t even a starry, starry night when some people in Beijing started to see a different kind of star.
Beijing’s art scene glitters anew with the multimedia exhibit “Van Gogh Alive – The Experience” near Joy City Mall in Chaoyang District running from Sept. 7 to Dec. 6.
Opening on a Monday afternoon, more than 10,000 people have since trooped to the exhibit, according to China Daily.
Sponsored by the International Cultural Exchange Center of China (ICEC), the one-of-a-kind exhibit presents high-resolution images of the Dutch painter’s works.
Projected on 40 screens measuring 4-7 meters high and on the floor, more than 3,000 van Gogh-related materials, from his sketches to his letters to, of course, his paintings, greet each visitor.
Some of the paintings shown are “Self-Portrait with Straw Hat” (1887/88), “Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers” (1888), “The Starry Night” (June 1889) and “Wheatfield with Crows” (July 1890).
Grande Exhibitions, established in 2006 in Australia and goes by the tag line “exhibitions redefined,” operates the exhibit.
According to its official website, “Grande Exhibitions specializes in the creation, design, production, commercialization and placement of select international traveling exhibitions and fixed exhibition projects that have broad cultural appeal.”
It now adds Beijing to its list of more than 85 cities visited. As of this writing, Grande had already produced 120 exhibitions across the globe, according to its website.
Those who would like to know more about the life of a Post-Impressionist painter who left the world 125 years ago but still afford to impress modern-day citizens with his art have until the first week of December to visit the exhibit.
