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Van Gogh Alive – The Experience


Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in the Netherlands. He was the eldest son of a priest from whom he inherited the religious vocation, his family did not have much money. In 1863 he entered the Zerenbergen school, but had to leave it due to the economic situation of his parents. At the age of 16, he began working as an employee at the Goupil Art Gallery in The Hague, which was being run by his uncle. There begins his love for painting and literature.


The gallery moved to London and Vincent decided to move into a boarding house. There he led a quiet life and began to draw, but after being rejected by the woman he was in love with, he became violent and aloof and moved to Paris. Vincent began having hallucinations and suffering from very serious pain, so his brother decided to admit him to Saint Paul's Hospital, where he was rejected.


The Saint Reney Hospital took him in and he was diagnosed with epilepsy and schizophrenia. Even with his illness, Vincent continued to paint and draw without stopping, although his works continued without success and without giving him money. He only sold two paintings in his life.


That is why we invite you to the most visited multimedia exhibition in the world, it is a festive display in which you will immerse yourself in Arles, Saint Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise, where Van Gogh created most of his works. Van Gogh Alive – The Experience brings both iconic and lesser-known paintings and works of art to life from a 1,500-square-meter structure housed in the Monument to the Mother.

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This is not an ordinary art exhibition: Van Gogh Alive invites you to enter a large black box-gallery with screens that extend from wall to wall and even cover columns and floors, in which more than 3,000 large-scale van Gogh images are recreated. From The Starry Night and Sunflowers to his Japanese-inspired pieces.


But the projections are not just static images: accompanied by a selection of carefully selected classical music, some details have been altered to make them move. Think of the movie Loving Vincent (2017). The exhibition is a captivating immersive experience where you can easily get lost in colors and music and even walk around the same place for 30 minutes. Van Gogh Alive also has surprises among its attractions, as it includes smells that evoke the time, the places and the objects captured in the paintings that the artist painted, as well as projections in water.


You'll also see a recreation of the Arles bedroom for you to take pictures of. As in the 45 cities that Van Gogh Alive has visited, a shop with t-shirts, bags, and van Gogh posters was set up.



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New Normal After several months of being closed, this immersive experience reopened its doors on August 11. This is because the CDMX health authorities announced that museums and exhibitions can now operate under the health protocols indicated for the sector.


Thus, Van Gogh Alive reopened this August 11 at 30% of the capacity of each function, it will have a first response medical team, it will have a disinfection arch, the temperature of visitors will be taken upon arrival, spaces will be rearranged for promote healthy distance and the gallery spaces will be constantly disinfected.


Likewise, they ask for the cooperation of the attendees to: respect the spaces indicated to keep a healthy distance, wear a face mask at all times, not go if symptoms such as fever, headache and sore throat occur, and follow the instructions of the staff. Place name Monument to the Mother.


Address: Manuel Villalongín S/N Centro, Ciudad de México, 06500

Buy your tickets at: bit.ly/boletosvangogh

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