Exclusive preview: Stories behind paintings + Matisse

October 2. Starting at 7:00PM

Get an exclusive preview at the latest immersive shows in the MINA Cluj program.

The experience will be rounded out by a live concert by Trio Strings: three young violin and cello players from the Cluj-Napoca Music College who have won national awards.

Stories Hidden in Paintings – What happens to a painting when no one is looking at it anymore? In this immersive show, the frames disappear, and the worlds of Henri Rousseau, Max Ernst, Frida Kahlo, and Maria Sibylla Merian unfold around the audience. The jungle grows beyond the canvas, shapes transform, portraits blend with nature, and insects and plants take on monumental proportions. The four worlds gradually converge and become one, in a journey about imagination, nature, and transformation. The paintings no longer hang on the wall. You step inside them.

Matisse - The Immersive Show – From the grays of his early work to the red that became his signature, Matisse - The Immersive Show traces, in 20 minutes, the transformation of one of the most important artists of the 20th century. The seven acts trace the moments that radically changed his art: war, illness, recovery, and reinvention through color and cut-outs. Monumental projections surround the audience with works such as L’Atelier Rouge,

Warning! This immersive experience contains rapidly changing images, as well as bright lights and loud sounds, which may be harmful to people for whom such stimuli are medically contraindicated (e.g., epilepsy, vertigo).