$36.99-$93.Vincent Van Gogh is a Dutch painter who lived from 1853 until 1890 and only sold one piece of artwork during his lifetime. GO: Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience, Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Though the cost for each session is a corpse-pose-inducing $56.99, the studios are all donating their cut of the classes to nonprofits: Holla Mentors, Rose Haven and Raphael House. Each class will be taught by one of three local studios: Firelight Yoga, Yoga Refuge or Now Yoga. It’s also worth noting that the exhibit will soon offer 50-minute yoga sessions inside the Experience Room, starting Dec. St-Arnaud (who has designed video backdrops for Justin Timberlake, the Killers and Linkin Park) deserves accolades for transmuting the works into such captivating displays. There’s a lot to draw from and even more to be curious about or inspired by. What remains are his compositions, his color work. And the image transitions that appear stroked onto the walls by ghostly paintbrushes are too formulaic-too much like a star wipe-to actually take an influence from van Gogh’s impasto style. While only a third of the paintings are rendered with enough detail to be able to see the brushwork. It provided a successful avenue for a whole new generation to get hype about Vivaldi.Ī similar exchange is unfolding at Beyond Van Gogh. Richter’s 2012 Recomposed sampled and rearranged all of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, reintroducing the masterpieces to audiences watching films or series like The Crown. It’s fitting that some of the exhibit is scored by Max Richter’s Spring 3, a reimagining of Vivaldi’s Spring. The Portland media contact assured me that I was completely alone in my disorientation and that when the room is full of more people, the effect is negated. I am not prone to vertigo, but this room had that effect on me. Images are interspersed with whole-room immersions of, say, floating petals in the style of van Gogh’s Almond Blossoms, or the swirls of The Starry Night, which whirl about the room and across the floor. The presentation is on a loop, but different areas of the room repeat works so you don’t have to cover all that ground to see everything. Employing countless projectors, animations of van Gogh’s works flitter across the walls and onto two central pillars. The last room is the largest, and it’s where people will want to spend most of their time. Multiple projectors make it possible to feel like you’re inside a river of color, a taste of what is to come when you enter the final Experience Room. Transitioning out of the hall, you’ll find yourself in the second space, the Waterfall Room, where renderings of van Gogh swirls bleed from the ceiling, down the wall and onto the floor. You’ll want to mind any and all of your clumsy friends. It’s a well-designed space aesthetically, but it’s also very tempting to walk between the display boards, which have covered electrical cords running between them. The quotes amount to greeting-card sentiments, the man’s letters reduced to inspirational phrasing.Īudiences are meant to snake along a path between the bright displays and artfully placed empty frames, hanging from the ceiling. But the room is on more of a pump-up mission than one to actually explore the artist as a person. Without those letters we wouldn’t know much about van Gogh’s interior life. These are essentially giant, glowing text placards and most of the information they contain mixes the exhibit’s own aspirations with quotes from letters van Gogh wrote to his younger brother, Theo. Upon entering, visitors will find themselves in an Information Hall: a darkened room with illuminated stations, presenting a light biographical outline of van Gogh’s career. Presented in dark, curtained corridors within an Oregon Convention Center hall, the show is broken up into three parts, building up to the final Experience Room where people will want to spend the most time and take the most selfies. The exhibit debuted in Miami in the spring of this year and has slowly been winding its way through most larger cities.
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