Light, colour, sound and fragrance are also all part of the exhibition, which is designed to make you feel as if youre walking right into the hefty array of paintings. A Multi-Sensory Impressionist Exhibition Featuring Works by Monet and LEARN MORE. BOOKING LINE. Monet & Friends - Life, Light & Colour is an enchanting digital experience for the whole family complete with accompanying period-specific fragrances, 19th-Century music, and extra visual treats from Monet's artistic buddies Paul Czanne, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro and many more. And Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Muse d'Orsay, in 2018, broke attendance records at the Art Gallery of South Australia. SAVE ON PARKING. Monet's lilies, Degas' pointe shoes and Renoir's boat parties appear supersized, alongside quotes by the artists and complementary footage (landscapes; photographs of the artists; Parisian poster-art from the era). There is a pithy quotation and one or two random bits of biographical data. Presented by Starlight in partnership with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, this is unlike any other ordinary art exhibition. Registration is fast and free. Dont just admire the Impressionists, become part of their movement. A gallery-wide celebration of motorcycles mightnt be the kind of thing youd generally expect to find at GOMA; however, thats exactly whatll be on display. The list of 19th- and early 20th-century artists showcased goes on, too, including douard Manet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley and Mary Cassatt. Seeing artworks in person, and within a collection, also helps to contextualise the art movement. Among paintings by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and others will be 79 works never previously exhibited in Australia. Our shows tend to run in larger venues, so if the government tells us to run at 20 per cent of our theoretical maximum capacity, were fine with that were not like a theatre where all the profit is in the top row, says Peterson. The gallery also includes a dedicated mirror infinity room packed with gorgeous water lilies and a life-size recreation of Monets famousBridge over a Pond for selfie enthusiasts. -century Europe through the eyes of Claude Monet and the Impressionist painters. Hesson is optimistic about the future of traditional art exhibitions: "My feeling is that all these different forms serve each other quite well," she says. Meanwhile, a showcase by Yolngu woman Dhambit Mununggurr is replete with her trademark blue hues, including a set of 15 large-scale bark paintings. The modern, minimalist twist on the fairground classic features 40 tonnes of steel and 15 tonnes of mirrors with no added gimmicks, no special effects, no soundtrack or soundscape. And here, there is no need for quiet. That means exploring work from the Italian Renaissance, checking out the Dutch painting of the Golden Age, and feasting your eyes on British portraiture as well as scoping out pieces from the 17th- and 18th-century Grand Tour, Spanish art from the 17th century, works that focus on landscape and the picturesque, and examining the birth of modern art. Meanwhile Peterson is preparing to open three permanent multi-sensory digital museums called The Lume in 2021, beginning with a world-first at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in May. THE LUME will be closed from 3:30pm on Wednesday, Feb. 22. In 15 years, his company has staged 196 exhibitions/experiences in 32 languages across six continents. Through Gleyre, Monet met several other artists, including Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frederic Bazille; the four of them became friends. 2020 didn't bring much that sparked joy, but it did let Sydneysiders wander through a large-scale, multi-sensory Vincent van Gogh exhibition that projected Dutch master's works onto walls, columns and floors. THE LUME Melbourne Van Gogh exhibition was by far the most immersive and sensational art experience of my life. Artists like Van Gogh and Monet are enticing for commercial producers because their work is out of copyright, and therefore not subject to licensing fees. Select your preferred date and time. Prices vary between weekdays and weekends. Purchased with funds generously donated by Geelong Contemporary, 2019. Notable, but not surprising because these artists already have a track record of drawing large numbers of paying ticket-holders. The venue will allow Grande to integrate the one human sense its exhibitions have hitherto missed taste with themed food offerings integrated into shows. It invites active contemplation, not simply the speedy consumption of hundreds of images. I reckon if Salvador Dali was alive today, hed be all over the digital environment, he says. Something went wrong while submitting the form. Special ticket prices are available for groups of 10 or more people. Make Concrete Playground yours with My Playground. You will be surrounded by the sights, sounds, and scents as you enter the vivid world of The Impressionists with . It stems from the same team as well. The pandemic will only lengthen the wait for the perennially popular impressionists paintings to return here in numbers, especially with the centenary of his death coming up in 2026. Peterson says roughly 50 per cent of the audience for Van Gogh Alive were in the 20-35 age group. These summaries are amusingly formulaic, almost always telling us how the artist died, usually at a tragically early age. In a rich, dynamic display of light, color, sound, and fragrance, the masterpieces of the Impressionists come to life. It generates curiosity.". Upgrade your Monet & Friends experience with a front row table for two and more. Image: Installation view of Tromaramas work Solaris 2020 Courtesy of the artists and Edouard Malingue Gallery. Start creating a personalised itinerary or add to an existing list. It stems from the same team as well. Visitors will be treated to a sprawling collection of street art, early stencil works and photographs from the many abandoned spaces hes reimagined as temporary art installations over the years. Light, colour, sound and fragrance are also all part of the exhibition, which is designed to make you feel as if you're walking right into the hefty array of paintings. What are the opening hours of Monet & Friends? THE LUME Indianapolis Featuring Monet & Friends Alive Other major players include French company Culturespaces (behind the aforementioned Paris exhibition Van Gogh: The Starry Night) and Canada's Starvox Entertainment. "I think anything that generates interest in art is a positive thing, and I don't think that the experience of seeing artworks in the flesh is diminished in any way by familiarity with them, whether it's through videos or digital media. Claude Monets The Water-Lily Pond, 1899, (detail) is part of the NGA exhibition. The interactive Monet and Friends exhibition at the Royal Hall of Industries in Sydney. THE LUME Melbourne is an epic adventure into art. Enjoy discounted parking at the South Wharf Retail Car Park or the Melbourne Exhibition Centre Car Park. Triennial 2020 looks set to follow suit, as artists from over 30 different countries share a diverse spread of works reflecting on a truly unique time in our worlds history. The feedback we get from visitors is that the more of their senses we engage, the greater their emotional connection to the world of the artists we feature, Peterson says. The interactive Monet and Friends exhibition at the Royal Hall of Industries in Sydney.Credit:Janie Barrett. Van Gogh and the Seasons, NGV's 2017 'Winter Masterpieces' exhibition, drew nearly 462,000 visitors. We take a cultural subject like the Impressionists or a natural subject like sharks and explain why theyre worth exploring., Monet & Friends - Life, Light & Colour, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney from March 12, monetandfriends.com, Show me the Monet: new digital exhibition brings French masters to Sydney. Monet & Friends: Light, Life and Colour CURATOR NOTES Australias first permanent digital gallery transforms the worlds finest art into fully immersive sensory encounters. It's been more than a century since Claude Monet painted his famous waterlilies from his garden in Giverny, France. Youll recognise the water lilies Monet painted at his garden at Giverney, the ballerinas Degas captured practising at the barre, Renoirs full-busted barmaids and Toulouse-Lautrecs glimpses into Pariss seedier side. (The company's first Australian foray was Planet Shark: Predator or Prey at Perth's WA Museum and Sydney Maritime Museum in 2019.). Nevertheless the art history is crucial to the success of the package because Monet and Friends allows the viewer to believe that he or she is not merely enjoying a fabulous slide show but receiving an education. Hesson says She-Oak and Sunlight will elucidate the personal relationships between artists in Australian Impressionism. Image: Rone, Ive seen fire and Ive seen rain (2016) from the Empty series, Geelong Gallery. READ MORE: Calls for exclusion zones after protesters block entrances to Melbourne hospitals Some of the year's most exciting and immersive art exhibitions have opened their doors across the nation this autumn. Where Van Gogh Alive focused on one artist's life story, Monet and Friends brings together artworks by 15 French Impressionists, including Manet, Pissarro, Czanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and Sisley. When you're peering at pieces by the 15 featured artists, you'll be doing so in a socially distanced setting with visitor numbers restricted to maintain enough space (which will exceed the one person per four-square-metres required by New South Wales' COVID-19 rules). Monet and Friends Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park, Sydney "When you're looking at the actual painting you can appreciate the looseness of the brushstrokes, the fact that it is often wet paint being applied on top of wet paint, which was a really radical idea [at the time]," says the curator. This event and last years Van Gogh Alive are direct descendants of the panoramas and spectacles of the Victorian era which invited customers to view a single gigantic painting, a vast photographic survey of some natural wonder, or another ingenious contrivance.