Experience the UK Premiere of Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Art Attraction Opening in Liverpool This June - The Broken Spine (2024)

• Art, News, Previews
• June 9, 2024
• 4:47 pm
• Linze Watson

Anticipation is rapidly rising with just weeks to go until the unforgettable multimedia experience, Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience, opens its doors at Exhibition Centre Liverpool on Thursday, 27 June.

Produced by Annerin Productions and Paquin Entertainment Group, Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience blends more than 300 of the post-Impressionist icon’s paintings with cutting-edge technology and a specially curated musical soundtrack to tell the story of one of history’s most influential artists.

Having already captivated over five million people across the United States, Canada, and South America, it is now coming to the UK for a strictly limited run of dates in major venues.

Following the UK premiere launch in Liverpool, from 27 June to 24 July, it will open at Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus on 11 July and at the Birmingham NEC on 1 August.

The powerful production covers an epic 40,000 sq ft and is packed with colour and detail to excite visitors of all ages. The artist’s spectacular paintings are liberated from their two-dimensional realms and rendered into three-dimensional, fully immersive scenes that swirl and flow with colour and movement – exhilarating in every sense.

Wander through iconic works as they come alive around you, including The Starry Night, Sunflowers, and Terrace of a Café at Night, and be enveloped by a selection of his revealing self-portraits which might just blink back at you.

Visitors are taken on a journey through the artist’s world from darkness to light, enhanced by his own dreams, thoughts, and words set to a stirring symphonic score in this sensational narrative experience which appeals to a whole new generation of art enthusiasts and Van Gogh fans alike.

Beginning in the Introduction Hall, visitors connect with Vincent van Gogh through personal letters he wrote to his brother, and greatest supporter, Theo. Visitors then move into the heart of the exhibition – the Immersive Room – where Van Gogh’s paintings are freed from their frames to dominate the space and fully immerse the audience in the incredible detail of his work, awakening their imagination in a playful and dreamlike way as they are enveloped in colourful flowers, cafés, and stunning landscapes, shifting and swirling across the projection-swathed walls and floor.

Even if you are not very familiar with Van Gogh’s incredible paintings, this is an excellent access point to his world, and a way to connect to the artist behind the art.

There is also a chance to take part in special Saturday morning yoga sessions inside the exhibition itself. Meanwhile, VIP Experience tickets include selected Beyond Van Gogh merchandise along with flexible arrival times and fast-track entry.

Anna Parry, UK Business Development at Annerin Productions, said today: “When we first announced that Beyond Van Gogh was due to have its UK premiere in Liverpool, we knew it would be popular – but the response from the city’s art lovers has been amazing, making it one of the fastest-selling shows we’ve staged anywhere in the world. So I’m really pleased to announce that we’ve been able to add extra tickets to the run at Exhibition Centre Liverpool so even more people will have the chance to immerse themselves in the world of Vincent van Gogh.”

LISTINGS INFORMATION FOR BEYOND VAN GOGH

VENUE: Exhibition Centre Liverpool, King’s Dock, Liverpool, L3 4FP.

DATE: Thursday, 27 June – Wednesday, 24 July 2024

TIME: 10am-8pm Monday-Friday & Sunday/ 9am-8pm Saturday (special yoga session Saturday mornings)

PRICE:

• Off-peak (Mon-Thurs): Adult 13+ £26.40/ Senior 65+, NHS, Student £19.80/ Child (4-12) £15.84/ Three and under go Free/ VIP Experience £39.60
• Peak (Fri-Sun): Adult 13+ £29.70/ Senior 65+, NHS, Student £23.76/ Child (4-12) £19.80/ Under three Free/ Yoga £39.60/ VIP Experience £46.20

Tickets can be booked here.

About Vincent Van Gogh:

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh was born to a Protestant minister and his wife in Zundert, in the Netherlands, in 1853 and started his career as an art dealer, working in London and Paris.

He also worked as a schoolteacher in Ramsgate and London, a bookseller, and a lay preacher in a Belgian mining community, before in 1880 his younger brother Theo suggested he concentrate on art.

Van Gogh quickly became prolific, creating more than 2,000 artworks over the course of a single decade, including 860 paintings – among them landscapes, still lives, portraits, and self-portraits. Many of them were painted in the final two years of his life, when he lived in Provence, and include some of his most famous works, among them The Starry Night, Irises, Café Terrace at Night, Bedroom in Arles, and Almond Blossoms.

But dogged by mental health problems, in 1889 he cut off his left ear, and the following year – aged 37 – he took his own life.

The Broken Spine is a poetry and arts collective proudly published on the coastal edge of North-West England. Founded in 2019 by Alan Parry and Paul Robert Mullen – two school friends reunited after twenty years through a mutual love of poetry.

Designed by Uncle Social