Cosenza breathed a different air last night. The Multimedia Studios Museum was lit up with light and color for the preview of the immersive performance “A Dream Called Vincent”, dedicated to the inspiration of Van Gogh. Authorities, artists and cultural voices shared this debut together, allowing themselves to be enveloped by an experience that marks the beginning of a new season of digital languages and contemporary visions dedicated to art for the city.
The performance, written and directed by Alessio Falbo, with the production direction of Gianfranco Confessore, is an entirely Calabrian creation that brings together advanced technical skills and artistic sensitivity. The editing and compositing are by Falbo, Antonio Perri, Enrico Ruffolo and Francesco Cristiano while the CGI is handled by Massimiliano Castiglione. The management of the complex computational models is entrusted to Confessore and Angelo Nuzzolo, demonstrating teamwork that looks to the new languages of cultural communication. The original soundtrack, composed by Francesco Perri, envelops the viewer in a musical landscape that amplifies the visual power of the works. The voices of Mario Tursi Prato (Van Gogh) and Alessandro Marco Romeo accompany the audience in an intimate and vibrant story, where words intertwine with color and music becomes emotion. The performance leads the viewer on a journey through Van Gogh’s most famous paintings, transforming them into visual and sound environments. The Sunflowers, the Almond Tree in Bloom, the Irises, the Starry Night, the Arles Room, the Yellow House, the Potato Eaters: each work becomes a threshold, a fragment of life that opens before the eyes with a new force. Color, the absolute protagonist, envelops and moves in dense layers, swirling brushstrokes, curves that seem to breathe. The images flow like an emotional story, conveying the tension, the sweetness, the fragility and the impetus that characterized the artist’s existence.
Van Gogh’s life as a pilgrimage
The exhibition traces the life of the tormented and visionary artist, author of over a thousand works including paintings, drawings and sketches. From gray London to impressionist Paris, up to luminous Provence, the narrative journey reveals its artistic and spiritual evolution culminating in the famous “Yellow House”, a symbol of hope and fragility. It is here that Van Gogh portrays the Starry Night over the Rhone, experiences a complex friendship with Paul Gauguin, faces the wound of the soul which becomes a wound of the body. The crises, the voluntary hospitalization in Saint-Rémy, the correspondence with his brother Theo, the stubborn search for light and peace: everything is intertwined in a story that restores the greatness of a man who transformed pain into colour.
An immersive experience between art and technology
“A dream called Vincent” is not just an exhibition, it is an embrace between art and technology, an invitation to look at the world through the eyes of color. In the rooms of the Multimedia Museum of Cosenza you can almost feel the same vibration that you perceive in Amsterdam in front of Vincent’s original masterpieces. Here as there, the color seems to move, call, open gaps in the memory. The performance returns that total immersion, that close contact with an artist who continues to speak to the present. It is an experience that remains, which accompanies beyond the vision, confirming the Multimedia Museum as a place capable of evoking authentic emotions and opening new paths to the narration of art.