Van Gogh - This is how I see the world
Culture Museum June 18, 2022 〜 November 27, 2022
There is probably no Western painter who enjoys greater popularity in
Japan than Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). Many of his works, such as
Sunflowers, The Yellow House, The Bedroom, Cypresses, Self-Portrait and
The Starry Night, are widely known, as is his eventful life, which
included admiring ukiyo-e and other Japanese culture, and living with
Paul Gauguin in southern France, before ending tragically. Van Gogh’s
works received little esteem during the painter’s lifetime, but only
after his death, his paintings attracted public attention and went on to
have a major impact on the history of painting at large. Opening now is
a digital art exhibition that invites visitors to relive the world as
perceived by Vincent Van Gogh. Through a combination of music and 360°
projections onto the venue’s walls and floors, the exhibition recreates
Van Gogh’s visual world, while tracing his passionate life devoted to
painting. The visuals reproduce Van Gogh’s boldly colored paintings with
a special focus on his characteristically energetic brushstrokes, with
occasional shifts from warm to rather gloomy tones. The immersive
displays are designed to reflect Van Gogh’s poetic, emotionally confused
inner workings by emphasizing the contrast of light and shadow. As there
is no prescribed way to appreciate this exhibition, you may walk around
the displays and stop – or even lounge in a hammock – at any point you
like, absorb the essence of Van Gogh’s works, and be taken right into
the life that he entirely spent creating them.
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