Estepona to host an immersive Van Gogh exhibition in June

The Estepona Congress Palace will host the immersive exhibition Van Gogh 'Greatest Hits' from June 5 to September 21, featuring a multi-screen system with over 40 projectors that will recreate the artist's works as virtual canvases and present more than a thousand references, as announced by the City Council on Monday.

Thus, viewers will be able to immerse themselves in paintings like The Starry Night, Sunflowers, Blossoming Almond Tree, or Self-Portrait, exploring throughout the exhibition the art, life, imagination, and impression of the Dutch painter.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on June 5 at the Estepona Exhibition and Congress Palace and will remain open until September 21, with special prices for residents of Estepona, as stated by the Municipality in a press release.

The exhibition will allow visitors to experience art from a new perspective, as if they were inside the paintings of a man who expressed his deepest emotions in every stroke and color. For this, it features a large-scale multi-screen system with more than 40 projectors.

As detailed, the Digital Art 360 technology creates a unique experience, making the viewer feel as if they are inside the paintings, in addition to incorporating advanced technologies such as kinetic, holographic, 3D, and morphing, which transform the paintings into dynamic and interactive elements that bring the artworks to life.

Thus, the City Council has pointed out that the exhibition transforms the room surfaces into virtual canvases, bringing the paintings to life through projections up to six meters high and accompanied by a soundtrack.

During the visit, more than 1,000 references to Van Gogh's paintings, details of the painter’s biography, and his heritage or his habits, secrets, quirks, fears, and desires will be revealed. It also shows how the artist captures in his canvases a life full of suffering, madness, mysticism, and melancholy, as well as creative twists, perceptions, and senses of the painter's work.

On the other hand, the Municipality has reminded that immersive exhibitions develop an innovative concept of a more interactive and emotional museum, allowing the artist and the viewer to converge and coexist through the artwork. These types of exhibitions have been featured in capitals like New York, Paris, or London, they indicated.