In Milan, a Virtual Reality tour will physically enter Monet's works

Beginning April 15, 2023, Way Experience presents Inside Monet in Milan, a new Virtual Reality Experience aimed at a transversal audience, combining art with the study of nature, of light, taking us back to the atmosphere of those cultural ferments that marked the vital Parisian artistic world of the mid-nineteenth century. A journey through time and space that intends to tell and let the visitor/spectator experience firsthand the concept of en plein air, of painting outdoors to capture the subtle nuances generated by light on every detail. The entire tour will gravitate around theArco della Pace, near the Cadorna stop, in an outdoor “Impossible Museum” that will allow visitors to physically enter Monet’s most significant works.

Accompanying the public on this walk will be an actor who will tell Monet and his story, thanks to dramaturgical narration written in collaboration with Libero Stelluti. Instead, Monet’s voice, by actor Luciano Bertoli, in Virtual Reality scenes will invite participants to wear the visor to enter his paintings and better understand his painting, light and colors, as well as his emotions and impressions.

Claude Monet’s salon-atelier in Giverny, reconstructed by sticking to the real one, will be the starting point of the entire Virtual Reality journey. The room, in the course of the experience, scene after scene, will be enriched with those paintings made by the painter into which the viewer/visitor will be projected, photographs of the places dear to him depicted in his works and personal objects related to his most intimate sphere.

The first stage will feature the seascape of the port of Le Havre bathed in the haze of the dawn of Impression, Sunrise (1872). The rising sun, the juxtaposition and shades of colors due to its rays, on nature and water, envelop the viewer in the sunrise landscape that has become so famous.

The second stage will lead the visitor/viewer into the expanse of soft green and scarlet red captured by the artist in the painting The Poppies (1875), into that typical atmosphere of summer air and light of the Ile de France region that Monet loved to “capture” by painting en plein air.

The third stop will be one of the walks that Monet’s wife took with her son during hot summer days in the Argenteuil hills. Entering the painting The Walk (1875), the viewer will observe Camille’s dress swaying in the wind and the grass moving in the pleasant summer breeze that envelops the entire landscape.

The fourth stage will be in The Sheaves (1890-91). In front of a field and sunny hay piles, Monet will present himself as a “hunter in search of impressions” intent on studying the theme of light mutations and color effects, among the painter’s most cherished and investigated.

The Water Lily Pond will be the fifth and final stop on the tour. Monet considered his Giverny garden his most beautiful masterpiece, and it is here that the series of more than 250 paintings featuring water lilies was born. Here in this garden the viewer will find himself, entering into the harmony of colors and brushstrokes that combine with the effects of water and light in nature, observing the sun’s rays penetrating the vegetation, the reflections of colors, and the Japanese-style arched bridge that Monet had built in homage to the culture of the Rising Sun.

“Opening impossible worlds has always been our mission,” says Pier Francesco Jelmoni co-founder of Way Experience. “In each project we take the viewer to experience firsthand emotions in other times and in other historical contexts, so they can understand history and the present, art and all the socio-cultural events we address in our projects. Inside Monet brings Paris to Milan, takes the viewer to the port of Le Havre and makes him see with his own eyes the reflections of the dawn light on the water, making him grasp Impressionism through the impressions of those who live it, getting excited exactly as Monet did. With a hint of pride we can say that in this cultural experience project, virtual reality will surpass the participants’ imagination.”

For info: www.insidemonet.it

The tours will take place on weekends and for 37 people at a time.
In the fall and spring, tours will take place at the following times: 10:30 a.m.; 11:00 a.m.; 11:30 a.m.; 2:30 p.m.; 3:15 p.m.; 4:00 p.m.; 4:45 p.m.; 5:30 p.m.; 6:15 p.m. (up to 9 tours); in the summer, tours will take place at the following times: 10:00 a.m.; 10:30 a.m.; 11:00 a.m.; 4:00 p.m.; 4:45 p.m.; 5:30 p.m.; 6:15 p.m.; 7:00 p.m.; 7:45 p.m. (up to 9 tours)
Participants are required to arrive 15 minutes before the start of the experience.
The meeting point for participants is in front of the Arch of Peace: a branded bike, in Simplon Square, will mark the meeting place and distribution of the viewers.
Tickets: Full 25 euros; 20 euros for under 16s.

In Milan, a Virtual Reality tour will physically enter Monet's works

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