The Prado Museum ends the celebration of its bicentennial with a spectacular 3D mapping on its façade

This large-scale 3D projection montage, made by Acciona Productions and Design, and live music can be enjoyed until next time 15 December.

Goya's façade Prado Museum in Madrid it was transformed yesterday, and so it will be until the next 15 December, on an immense 3D canvas on which almost a hundred paintings from the gallery's collections are projected, which is accompanied by live music and lighting effects.

The show Refraction: from chaos to stillness, made by Acciona Productions and Design (APD), Prado Museum's bicentennial celebrations culminate, with two daily passes (20:30 y 22:00h) of 30 minutes long each, that offer a visual journey from classicism to contemporary times in which the works of the main painters follow one another.

But, as Marina Chinchilla explained, Deputy Director of Administration of the Prado Museum, “they will not be his most visited works, but of those that, being less recognizable to the general public, "They constitute essential pieces to understand the evolution of painting and society.".

Also fundamental elements of this show are the music, composed especially for the occasion by the composer Olivier Arson, Goya Award winner 2019 for Best Original Score for the film The Kingdom, along with different visual effects created by the visual artist Daniel Canogar with the name of Amalgam El Prado.

“With boldness and respect,” Canogar pointed out,, I try to connect the past of art with contemporary creation. Amalgam El Prado is a video work that projects paintings from the art gallery transformed by an algorithm, 'liquefying like drips of paint and melting into each other'. “This allusion to liquid modernity serves as a reflection on the viral explosion of online information and how the consumption of art has changed.”.

Acciona Producciones y Diseño has been in charge of the definition and execution of this mapping show, laser and special effects, to offer an immersive three-dimensional projection that syncs with the soundtrack composed for this event. The museum façade is used not only as a screen, but as a volumetric base to create optical illusions and special effects.

The show is divided into two parts: The first begins with an application of different visual effects created by Daniel Canogar, while the second, by APD, continue with videomapping and musical composition.

Lighting design and staging, under the artistic direction of XLR Studio, It is organized around major thematic axes (allegories, flores, dramatic visions, mythology, religious iconography, portraits of women, landscapes, etc.) and stylistic (mannerism, Gothic, romance, impressionism, etc.), that follow one another seeking to cause in the viewer an aesthetic emotion rather than an intellectual understanding of the paintings..

Olivier Arson's score is performed live by an electronic musician, an orchestral conductor, a string quartet and three flutists, and will be synchronized with the projections by using sequencing software, so that the images seem to 'vibrate and dance' to the same tune.

The pieces performed also fuse classicism and modernity, emulating the spirit of the Prado Museum that, in recent years, has opted in its exhibitions for the live dialogue between pieces from its collection and others of a contemporary nature.

In line with the commitment to sustainability of both Acciona and the Prado Museum, the event will be CO2 neutral, that is to say, Polluting emissions will be reduced to the maximum and the inevitable ones will be offset in clean energy projects. An initiative that responds to a sponsorship agreement between this company and the art gallery for the dissemination of the bicentennial of the creation of this institution.