That’s just one part of the extraordinary art exhibit called “Frameless” that’s been playing in London for several months now.
Travel on a mind-bending journey as mirrors and clever projection take you beyond the boundaries of reality. Surreal, otherworldly and dreamlike, this gallery will envelope you in the strange and extraordinary.
The short video below explains how the Storm at Sea by Rembrandt was transformed into a realistic, all-encompassing experience that puts you in the painting.
More about the exhibition, from Forbes:
Frameless, is a permanent immersive art exhibition located at Marble Arch in London. While not the most pleasant part of the city, it is worth heading there to experience the magical world inside its door. Opened in late 202, it’s located on the site of a retired Odeon cinema. Its large rooms are now divided up into four art galleries showing famous artworks reimagined for the 21st century. Instead of static objects you simply look at, the images are animated and projected onto the walls, ceiling and floors around you, accompanied by music. Using cutting-edge technology and sound it’s hard not to be drawn into the experience, no matter your age or your knowledge of art.
In the final room, “The World Around Us”, among the images we are transported to a courtyard in Venice, courtesy of Canaletto, we see The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, standing astride a rock looking into the misty view, and we are splashed by the crashing waves of the terrifying storm in Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Late of Galilee. And then, in my favourite part of the entire exhibition, Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night comes spectacularly alive, complete with swirling stars, comets flying overhead and the lights of the village waking up in front of us. It’s quite beautiful.
Check out more about “Frameless” in the video below.
