Want to take a trip to Paris without breaking the bank? The immersive 3D experience The magic of the impressionists takes you to the mythical Paris of the 19th centurye century ! Until March 12, 2023, the Espace St-Denis Studio-Cabaret is transformed into a Parisian refreshment bar, where the music harmonises perfectly with the – now moving – images of the great Impressionist painters.
Sitting at a table in a room with a cozy atmosphere, a small glass in hand if you wish, gently immerse yourself in an immersive experience of just over an hour, conceived in two phases and proposed by the producers will. Picasso and Monet events in North America.
Photo courtesy of Jacques Ouimette
Meet the big ones
The first part lets you (re)discover the works of the most gifted Impressionist artists of their respective generations; while large video projections are placed here and there on the various panels surrounding the space. In the second, you’ll put on 3D glasses to see the most beautiful works of these colour-changing artists come to life before your eyes.
From the first notes of plays by Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour, and as soon as excerpts from black and white archive films are revealed, the Montreal cabaret becomes Parisian and presents moments spent by artists, residents and personalities of bygone times in the City of Light.
There are also large video projections of works by Seurat (pointillism), Degas (nickname of the painters of the dancing girls), Paul Cézanne (father of modern art and one of the greatest Impressionist painters), Claude Monet (referred to as the father of Impressionism). ) and his famous water lilies, Éva Gonzalès, Berthe Morisot, Marie Bracquemond, Camille Pissarro (who painted with Seurat), Talbot, Sisley, Paul Gauguin and Édouard Manet.
Photo courtesy of Jacques Ouimette
Be part of the board
Enter Vincent Van Gogh and Auguste Renoir, two great artists whose paintings and characters strutting around us can only move us in a whole new way.
One might think that new technology would have eclipsed that of 3D glasses, but that is not the case. On the contrary, the glasses used when watching 3D films in the cinema bring to life, in a simple and effective way, the characters who suddenly break away from the greatest paintings of the Impressionists.
Here the flying dresses of Seurat’s ballerinas dance towards us, there Monet’s water lilies we think we can catch in passing, the landscapes that come to life with their leaves dancing through the cabaret, the falling snow, the fields that move and the water on which we seem to slide while being part of all these stories told with a brush.
These are enveloping contemplative moments that you will experience in the new studio cabaret of Espace St-Denis. A well-deserved beauty break that culminates as you walk through the fields of sunflowers counting the wrinkles on your face and flying away in the starry sky by Van Gogh to the sound of Don McLean’s magnificent piece Vincent’s Starry Night, delivered by Adam Fisher.
The magic of the impressionists in the cabaret studio of the Espace St-Denis. Times and tickets: spacestdenis.com/evenement/magiedesimpressionnistes