Lume owner and founder Bruce Peterson said the exhibition would include a dozen French impressionist artists and more than 850 artworks.
“We felt thatMonet&Friends Alive was going to be the perfect follow-up to give people a very different experience to Vincent[Van Gogh],but still a familiarity of all the great things that they found inspirational when they first came to The Lume,” he said.
Visitors can walk over a recreation of the bridge in one of Monet’s most famous paintings,Bridge Over A Pond of Water Lilies,explore a recreation of his studio and attempt to replicate the artist’s work themselves.
The immersive experience will be created using The Lume’s 143 high-definition projectors,displaying artworks across 3000 square metres of white carpet and up the 11-metre walls of the Convention and Exhibition Centre at South Wharf.
When it closes,attendance for the Van Gogh exhibition is expected to top 700,000 visitors in a year,bringing an estimated $27 million in revenue through tickets priced at $39. Since opening last October,it has already drawn more than 600,000 people.
Peterson came up with the concept for The Lume when his children quickly became bored visiting art galleries in Italy and France. He said a typical visitor to the Van Gogh exhibition was someone who did not often go to galleries.