A NEW VISION OF VINCENT VAN GOGH
PRIVILEGED ACCESS TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY’S BLOCKBUSTER EXHIBITION
COMING TO CINEMAS NATIONWIDE ON 6 NOVEMBER 2024
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO FIND A SCREENING CLICK HERE
Explore the passion which drove one of the world’s favourite artists to change art forever.
The combination of exhibition and film rewrite the narrative and celebrate Van Gogh’s genius without exploiting his suffering.
It is time to truly understand this iconic artist.
200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery has opened the UK’s ‘once-in-a-century’ Van Gogh exhibition, taking the world by storm and rewriting the narrative of this beloved artist. Exhibition on Screen brings this stunning exhibition to the big screen, along with a deep dive into Van Gogh’s fascinating life and incredible skill. Focusing on his driving passions and unique creative process, the feature film Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers explores the artist’s years in the south of France where he revolutionised his style and changed art forever.
The exhibition and Exhibition on Screen’s accompanying film are a celebration of Vincent van Gogh’s life and work, exploring his engagement with poetry and love, his diligent research, his groundbreaking use of colour and his revolutionary style. Discover why he went to the south of France and how it changed everything for him. Appreciate the artist beyond his mental health issues and understand the intelligence and sheer passion that drove his incredible career.
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers is in cinemas nationwide from 6 November 2024.
Directed by David Bickerstaff and produced by Phil Grabsky.
Co-Written by David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky.
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers has a runtime of 92 mins.
Watch the TRAILER here.
David Bickerstaff writes about his film: ‘The curators [Cornelia Homburg and Chris Riopelle] spoke passionately about how the exhibition will focus on Van Gogh’s mastery of paint, his developing style and obsessive imagination formed by what he encountered in the south of France during his latter years. This is arguably Van Gogh’s most productive and recognisable period and when his art really reflects on his passion for life and vibrant originality. The ambition of the exhibition’s scale promises to be rich with new ideas and fabulous works of art, rarely seen before in one space. During his years in Arles and San Remy, Van Gogh became consumed with telling stories in his art, turning the world around him into colourful, idealised spaces and symbolic characters. Poets and lovers filled his imagination and desires. In part, this is what caused his notorious breakdown, but it didn’t hold back his creativity as he produced masterpiece after masterpiece, revolutionising his own style and, in turn, changing art forever.’
Van Gogh: Poet & Lovers is at the National Gallery until 19 January 2025 and for more information please click here.