How the Monet & Friends exhibition will look when it opens at Sydneys Hall of Industries. 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. The Lume digitial gallery will open a new exhibition, Monet & Friends Alive, in October. Notably absent? Select your preferred date and time. Each artwork is presented alongside supporting imagery: animated birds in flight, pools of rippling water, lily pads, footage of white cliffs and rolling waves. Once inside there is no time limit for your stay. 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. Indulge your tastebuds in our very own Cafe de Flore, be swept up by the vivacious sounds of Debussy and Tchaikovsky and dont forget to snap a selfie on Monets Bridge (so real it could have been plucked right from his garden in Giverny)! But more are beginning to realise that they wont be able to grow their audience very much without trying new things, he says. These summaries are amusingly formulaic, almost always telling us how the artist died, usually at a tragically early age. The venue will allow Grande to integrate the one human sense its exhibitions have hitherto missed taste with themed food offerings integrated into shows. 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. So, get out your diaries and plan trips to walk over giant Monet artworks, visit Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' and explore decaying rooms filled with street art. But theres no need to wait for Monets originals, says Bruce Peterson, the founder and chief executive of Grande Experiences, who from March 12 is promising a multi-sensory experience called Monet & Friends: Life, Light & Colour at Sydneys Royal Hall Of Industries. THE LUME Melbourne box office is opened during advertised gallery opening times. We've rounded up the best art exhibitions happening across the country this autumn. Street artist Rone has a well-documented knack for taking on unexpected spaces as canvases for his distinctive large-scale works. SAVE ON PARKING. Make no mistake, this is unlike any other ordinary art exhibition. Daring, intriguing and uplifting, much like the works of the Impressionists themselves, Monet & Friends compels you to leave the world behind as you step inside this fascinating period of modern art. The beauty of it literally brought me to tears! 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. In 2021, art lovers can repeat the feat, this time with a heap of French Impressionist masterpieces because Monet & Friends Life, Light & Colour is heading to town from March. Hesson says familiarity and nostalgia isn't a bad thing when it comes to art. Once more, the project is the brainchild of Melbourne-based Grande Exhibitions, which, for the past 16 years, has hosted immersive exhibitions and gallery experiences in over 145 cities around the world. In 2021, art lovers will be able to repeat the feat, this time with a heap of French Impressionist masterpieces because Monet & Friends Life, Light & Colour is heading to town . Or gazed at their masterpieces smelling the seductive aromas - cypress, nutmeg, sandalwood -they experienced pioneering painting en plein air. We're certain that our Monet & Friends - Life, Light & Color exhibition will make a grand impression on our guests at Biltmore this spring, from March 9 through July 10, 2022. Not that Peterson is competing with traditional galleries and museums. Be the first to access tickets and receive news updates. Koi swim in ponds as you're reading quotes from the artists: "I will do water beautiful blue water" (Monet), for example; and "Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret" (Pissarro). Monet and Friends is at the Royal Hall of Industries in Moore Park until April 18. (The company's first Australian foray was Planet Shark: Predator or Prey at Perth's WA Museum and Sydney Maritime Museum in 2019.). The Impressionists' works have been displayed and enjoyed . And Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Muse d'Orsay, in 2018, broke attendance records at the Art Gallery of South Australia. 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. On the opening weekend of Monet and Friends, 21-year-old student Isabella, who was among the visitors, told ABC Arts: "You don't have to be within the physical presence [of art] to appreciate it. While all this is happening, you are being bombarded by the music of composers including Debussy, Offenbach and Tchaikovsky. He is also responsible for the Financial Review's Rich Lists. This is not so different from the way museums package their blockbusters, with much educational material including childrens labels, introductory videos, guided tours and lecture programs. Ticketmaster: Mon Fri: 9am 7pmSat/Sun: 9am 5pm. In 15 years, his company has staged 196 exhibitions/experiences in 32 languages across six continents. Stories that will brighten your outlook, delivered weekly to your inbox. Something went wrong while submitting the form. With art galleries now able to begin reopening, the NGV Triennial returned for its blockbuster second iteration this summer, taking over NGV International from Saturday, December 19 until Sunday, April 18. Were working to restore it. You'll be hearing from THELUMEMelbourne soon. LEARN MORE. Peterson says roughly 50 per cent of the audience for Van Gogh Alive were in the 20-35 age group. Daring, intriguing and uplifting, much like the works of the Impressionists themselves, Monet & Friends compels you . 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. Is it fun, creepy or both? For context, in a pre-COVID-19 world, the Art Gallery of New South Wales saw more than 225,000 visitors for its 2008-2009 exhibition Monet and the Impressionists in the top four of its highest audience figures. With that in mind, get ready to submerge yourself in a bold symphony of light, colour and sound, as animated masterpieces ripple across 3,000 square-metres of gallery space, evoking the sensation of becoming part of the art itself. Enter an iconic lily garden. Sign up for our Greater Good newsletter here. The thing I found was that you can see all [the works] in one place," she told ABC Arts. Monet and Friends: Light, Life and Colour, at the Royal Hall of Industries in Moore Park, is the second show brought to Sydney by the group Grande Experiences. But it seems the culture gods have smiled down and cut us a little slack when it comes to one of the biggest, most anticipated art events to hit the city in three years. By continuing past this page, you agree to our terms of use. Save and share your favourite picks and make plans to go out with friends. Digital experiences like Van Gogh Alive and Monet and Friends might be new to Australia, but they are a burgeoning industry, globally. So, that means that you'll have less company than you'd usually expect at a big exhibition of French Impressionist art. Our diverse range includes The Leonardo Da Vinci Collection, Monet & Friends Alive, and Van Gogh Alive, which has been hosted in 175+ cities. Hitting the Australian Capital Territory from March 5June 14, 2021, it features the largest batch of works to venture beyond the United Kingdom in National Gallerys 192-year history. In recent years, Brisbanes Gallery of Modern Art has played host to an array of weird and wonderful exhibits. The walls come alive as light ripples across every surface and masterpieces come to life. Monet & Friends is open seven days a week. Were lucky to have access to Clarice Becketts work today. You can sit on or walk over projections on the floor. Now, the celebrated artist returns to his hometown of Geelong to transform Geelong Gallery into an immersive, experiential exhibition. In October this year Melbourne digital art gallery The Lume's much-loved Van Gough Alive exhibit will be retired and replaced with another larger-than-life, multi-sensory art experience. Enjoy discounted parking at the South Wharf Retail Car Park or the Melbourne Exhibition Centre Car Park. One views the pictures in a fast-moving sequence interspersed with quotations from the artists; archival photos; snatches of vintage film; freshly shot glimpses of landscapes, flowers, cities and trains; discreet animations, and the odd sentence of commentary. And, artist-wise, Titian, Velzquez, Goya, Turner, Renoir, Czanne, Botticelli, El Greco, Constable, Van Dyke, Gainsborough andGauguin are all also on the bill. Enjoy discounted parking at the South Wharf Retail Car Park or the Melbourne Exhibition Centre Car Park. The organisers of Monet and Friends would presumably argue they are encouraging art appreciation and helping steer audiences towards the museums. Be surrounded by Monets famous Water Lilies or step inside Degas ballet studio while indulging in the flavours of bohemian Paris at our enchanting Caf de Flore. Or perhaps even our desire to? Purchased with funds generously donated by Geelong Contemporary, 2019. This may well be true but its also conceivable that they are encouraging and exploiting the progressive decay of the public attention span and the growing need for instant experiences grande or otherwise. Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre5 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, Melbourne, General enquiries:Enquiries.melbourne@thelume.comMedia enquiries:info@kateco.com.auPrivate event enquiries: mcec.com.au/thelume/events, MondayWednesday:10am-6.30 pm (last entry 5pm), Thursday-Saturday:10am-9.30 pm (last entry 8pm). You will be surrounded by the sights, sounds, and scents as you enter the vivid world of The Impressionists with . What are the opening hours of Monet & Friends? For Monet & Friends, it's once again using state-of-the-art technology that combines 40 high-definition projectors to create multi-channel visuals, all while a classical musical score accompanies the vibrant colours in cinema-quality surround sound. Grande Experiences will also be opening an Australian iteration of The LUME this year, at Melbourne Exhibition Convention Centre, having pushed back the date due to the pandemic. There is even an olfactory component, with scents both woody and astringent being wafted into the room, although my nose wasnt sufficiently sensitive to detect any of them.