Grande Experiences has certainly carved a nice little niche for itself. After touring its immersive and highly successful Van Gough Live exhibition around Australia last year, the Melbourne-based company is turning diving deeper into impressionism by re-skinning the concept to pay tribute to Claude Monet with Monet In Paris. And while it’s usually Sydney or Melbourne that premieres these shows, the company has landed on Brisbane as the first port of call.
The immersive 360-degree art show will work pretty much exactly how Van Gough Alive did. In that, some of Monet’s most iconic works will be projected large onto differently-sized screens in a multi-sensory format that will pair the paintings with classical music in Brisbane’s Northshore Hamilton.
Monet In Paris will set up shop at the Brisbane venue for two months, beginning Wednesday, June 7 and running through to Sunday, August 6. Further stops for the touring show haven’t been announced yet, but there’s very little doubt Monet In Paris will also be heading to Melbourne and Sydney throughout the year.
The riverside precinct’s 250-square-metre Grand Palais will feature six breakout spaces to turn the exhibition into a bit of a destination which includes multiple bars, a gift shop and a cafe. The main space will feature Monet’s works written large, including Water Lillies and some of the painting’s other hyper-colourful impressionist paintings.
Monet’s works will be projected alongside other similar impressionists, including Degas, Camille Pissaro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and others.
Grande Exhibitions has obviously been on a bit of a Monet binge lately. In Melbourne’s digital-only gallery, The Lume, the company is still showing the similar Monet & Friends exhibition, which has been running since October 2022.
Tickets to Monet In Paris will go on sale from Tuesday, March 14.
