The immersive Van Gogh Alive exhibit (in 2020 and ’21) drew record crowds to the Dali Museum, which was already St. Petersburg’s top-ranking tourist draw. Visitors couldn’t get enough of the wall-sized (and larger) moving and morphing projections, set to stirring classical music in surround-sound.
The museum’s back-garden geodesic dome debuted in 2023 with even more immersion – 360 degrees, sloping wall to ceiling, plus floors – of Salvador Dali’s paintings, drawings and pithy commentary.
As technology improves, so does the art aficionado’s experience. Van Gogh Alive has been re-configured for the 39-foot-high, 60-foot-wide “Dali Dome,” and will premiere Oct. 11.
Van Gogh Alive 360° showtimes will rotate with the Museum’s existing Dalí Alive 360°; the Dome “experience” also includes scheduled screenings of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.
When the Van Gogh exhibit first opened at the Dali, with the pastoral, documentary-like film projected onto the existing vertical gallery walls and floor, museum director Hank Hine noted the similarities between Vincent Van Gogh, the Dutch Post-Impressionist and Dali, the Spanish Surrealist.
Both artists, he said, had a “sense that this world was unstable and ever-changing. And they thought the physical world could be pried back by the way you revealed it in art. And revealed the inner truth of what the world was like.”
Success, of course, breeds success(and imitators). Beyond Van Gogh and Beyond Monet: The Immersive Experience opened in August in Morsani Hall, part of the Straz Center for the Performing Arts complex in Tampa (temporary “walls” have been installed on the performance stage).
Originally scheduled to close last week, its run was extended through Sept. 28.
For all Dali Dome details and tickets, visit this link.
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