HE Royal Palace Starting this Friday, Madrid is hosting an exhibition by Joaquín Sorolla that delves into his own life. light treatment and it does so with an innovative project that is committed to combining virtual reality with the artist’s nearly thirty works.
“We are really examining three exhibitions together”In the presentation of the exhibition this Wednesday, she announced Blanca Pons Sorolla, the greatest expert of the business and a descendant of the painter.
Organized as part of the 100th anniversary of the painter’s birth, the exhibition opens its doors at the Royal Palace of Madrid from 17 February to 30 June; and will travel later Valencia and Dallas (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA).
The tour begins with a series of rooms with projections on the walls, where the viewer dives into the artist’s biography from his difficult beginnings until he is crowned as an artist. The most important Spanish impressionist painter.
You can see below about thirty works of the artist and finally, the viewer dons a helmet to enjoy a virtual reality experience that takes them from the beach in Valencia to the painter’s studio in his Madrid home.
Curators of the exhibition section, Blanca Pons-Sorolla (the artist’s best connoisseur) and Consuelo Luca de Tena (former director of the Sorolla Museum) have selected some thirty works in which light plays a fundamental role and the scenes have some relation to the Royal Palace and the Spanish monarchy.
light painter
Nicknamed the Painter of Light, Sorolla isn’t the only one in her generation obsessed with the processing of light, but she is. “unique and exceptional” Consuelo Luca de Tena explained it through the method of capturing and trapping light in his scenes, especially at sunset and sunrise.
The curators selected a series of portraits of his family and the Spanish royal family. his wife Clotilde and their daughter Elena two seldom public portraits of King Alfonso XIII and Queen María Eugenia walking on the cliffs of the Javea coast at sunset or in the gardens of La Granja de Segovia.
“The most beautiful ones are those from their families who stand out with their originality, naturalness and the love they spread”, pointed out Blanca Pons. Painting and family were the artist’s two passions, he assured.
He also painted many gardens, as can be seen in the exhibition, such as the courtyard of the Alcázar in Seville or his own house in Madrid – now converted into the Sorolla Museum.
The rest of the works, the most exceptional, It consists of a series of traditional seascapes with scenes of fishermen, boats and sea workers that he painted during his stay in Valencia.
“The Sea is Sorolla’s most recognizable work by the general public, that doesn’t mean it’s the best, but this is great. All the works in the exhibition were chosen as jewellery,” said Pons Sorolla.
Real and virtual Sorolla
“Sorolla passing through the light” is a pioneering experience In combining the artist’s paintings with immersive experience, which, as Pons emphasizes today, believes that technology “expands and intensifies” the sensory impact of painting and helps to enjoy the paintings.
The technical project was made by the company. Light Art Exhibitions. Its director, Gonzalo Saavedra Loring, explained that the original project was purely virtual, but after researching similar experiences—seeing virtual exhibitions of Frida Khalo or Dalí in Madrid—they realized that the public missed seeing real work.
For Ana de la Cueva Fernández, director of National Heritage, public-private collaboration was “fundamental” to drive the project. “Working together makes everything so much better“, said.