Naples, Van Gogh Multimedia and the Secret Room at Palazzo Fondi from 19 March to 26 June

Naples, Van Gogh Multimedia and the Secret Room at Palazzo Fondi from 19 March to 26 June.

Nine hundred paintings in ten years. That was it feverish production by Vincent van Gogh, that the great exhibition Van Gogh Multimedia and the Secret Room, designed and produced by Navigare Srl and sponsored by the Municipality of Naples, collects in its entirety al Palazzo Fondi in Naples from 19 March to 26 June 2022. The exhibition in digital format also features 1 original work by van Gogh along with 11 others, also original and coming from private collections, by other famous artists active in the decades between impressionist period and the Belle Époque: Bernard, Cézanne, Cormon, Gauguin, Mauve, Monticelli, Toulouse-Lautrec, exhibited in the Secret Room section, curated by Vincenzo Sanfo for Diffusione Italia International Group.

Fruit of a important research and high-tech reproduction work, the exhibition curated by Giovanna Strano e Maria Rosso it represents a unique opportunity to get to know the intense journey up close artistic work of the Dutch Master (1853-1890) and admire his masterpieces present in the museums of Amsterdam, London, New York and Paris, but also to come into contact with the particular sensitivity that marked the existence ofartist who committed suicide at just 37 years old.

In the exhibition, in Italian and English and extended in one space of over 700 mXNUMX, van Gogh's work is divided into thematic areas, showing portraits, landscapes, self-portraits and still lifes to the public, while in the Secret room appear for the first time original engravings, etchings, watercolours, oil paintings and representative of a broad period, from second half of the 800th century to the first twenty years of the 900th century.

The reproduction in is also particularly evocative real dimensions of the famous bedroom of the "yellow house" of Arles in Provence, where the artist lived for a short but significant time period between 1888 and 1889, together with a collection of artistic clothes dedicated to the works of van Gogh and forming part of the cultural project “Art Couture Sicily” conceived by fashion art designer Gisella Scibona, actively engaged in the sector, also in favor of other artists.
Furthermore, the exhibition also hosts three mosaics created by the children of the “Fondazione Bambini e Autismo Onlus” of Pordenone, based on the model of equally well-known paintings by van Gogh.

Van Gogh Multimedia and the Secret Room proposes a concept in which the digital format of the works is accompanied by multimedia and three-dimensional vision with the Oculus VR360 QHD technology, used as a tool to bring art to a wider audience. A method already widely tested successfully by the organizers with other exhibitions and which finds the maximum yield with van Gogh's paintings, as the company promoter explains Salvatore Lacagnina: “The use of multimedia and digital reproduction offers great opportunities in the field of art enjoyment. Furthermore, particularly in the case of van Gogh, the high quality technology allows us to highlight the use of chromaticism which lights up and refers to deeper, more intensely existential meanings, exactly as the artist intended".

Van Gogh Multimedia and the Secret Room will be open to visitors every weekday (Time: 9.30am ‒ 20.30pm, ticket cost 12 euros), Saturdays and holidays (Time: 9.30am ‒ 21.00pm, ticket cost 14 euros). Open ticket cost: 15 euros; reduced ticket: 10 euros; school entrance: 5 euros. Ticket office at Palazzo Fondi in via Medina 24, for information: www.vangoghmultimediaexperience.it