Imagine Picasso, the immersive exhibition on Pablo Picasso, comes to Vancouver this October
The production by the same team behind Imagine Van Gogh features more than 200 of Picasso’s paintings shown together for the first time
Photo by Imagine Picasso
Updated: Imagine Picasso opens in Vancouver on October 27. Tickets go on sale September 11 at 10 am PDT.
VANCOUVER WILL HOST the Western Canadian debut of Imagine Picasso when the immersive exhibition by the same team behind Imagine Van Gogh comes to the Vancouver Convention Centre in October.
Imagine Picasso features more than 200 of the legendary artist’s paintings shown together for the first time, from his Blue and Rose periods to Cubism and beyond.
To bring the show to life, co-creators Annabelle Mauger and Julien Baron collaborated with art historian Androula Michael and Rudy Ricciotti, one of the leading figures of the new French architecture movement and a winner of the National Grand Prix in Architecture.
Ricciotti was inspired to create the scenography from paper sculptures that Picasso made for his children. The paintings are projected onto nine full-blown origami-style structures for a never-before-seen perspective on the artist’s work.
Just as at the Imagine Van Gogh show that has been held over several times in Vancouver, Mauger and Baron’s Image Totale will immerse visitors in Picasso’s art, giving them the chance to take in his paintings’ fine details and be surrounded by ever-shifting imagery.
Imagine Picasso, which ran in Quebec this past summer, is presented by Tandem Expositions/Paquin Entertainment and produced by Encore Productions (France)—a Fimalac Entertainment Group company. The Picasso Estate licensed Imagine Picasso to Encore Productions.
“I think this exhibition would have pleased my grandfather a lot because he was, above all, a man of freedom,” Olivier Widmaier Picasso, Picasso’s grandson, is quoted as saying in a release.
In keeping with pandemic protocols, the show is designed as a contactless experience and will have limited capacity and timed entries, and will operate in full accordance with B.C. latest public-health guidelines.
The exhibition will have a limited run in Vancouver.
People can pre-register now for access to pre-sale tickets and find more information at www.imagine-picasso.com.
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