More than 46 thousand people, including 10 thousand girls, boys and adolescents from schools and priority areas of Baja California, enjoyed the exhibition “Van Gogh: The immersive experience” at the State Center for the Arts in Mexicali.
This experience allowed them to contemplate works using the video mapping technique, others on walls or as sculptures by this exponent of post-impressionism, author of nearly 3 thousand works.
During the four months that the exhibition lasted at the CEART Convention Center, access to culture was strengthened as a right, art came closer to many people and inspired creativity and learning to leave a memory for attendees, said Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda.
The exhibition on the work of the Dutch painter Vicent Van Gogh, awarded in 2021 as the best immersive experience, marked a record attendance at an exhibition in Baja California.
The Secretary of Culture Alma Delia Ábrego highlighted that more than 10 thousand girls, boys and adolescents from various primary and secondary schools, foster homes and shelters in Mexicali, the Valley and priority areas lived this experience, which becomes a cultural reference in the region.
With six exhibition rooms, the exhibition allowed attendees to enjoy a multisensory experience that combined a virtual reality tour with an experimental drawing space that provides the possibility of interacting and connecting with Van Gogh’s works in a completely new way, she added.
The exhibition was significant for Baja California families who opted for this activity as their cultural plan, particularly for “The Starry Night”, one of the painter’s most emblematic works.
Ábrego Ceballos highlighted that Mexicali businessmen joined the Ministry of Culture which allowed more than 1,600 free tickets to be delivered to students from public schools in the Mexicali Valley, which were complemented with educational tours at CEART.
Source: jornada
