PISA.- For the first time ever in Italy, a digital art spectacular devoted to great artists of the 16th century. A new format that reveals the powerful impact, exuberance and majesty of works by Bosch, the Brueghel dynasty and Arcimboldo, as never before.

The great spectacular show Bosch, Brueghel, Arcimboldo has arrived in Pisa, with its magical and dream-like atmospheres that envelop the public and fully immerse them in the artworks through a combination of images, music and technology.

A 30-minute spectacular with over 2,000 images and music ranging from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the 2012 tribute version of Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin: the Arsenali are populated by a multitude of fantastical and allegorical creatures whose brilliant colours change constantly in a lyrical and poetic atmosphere. Alchemy, religion and astrology; vanity, temptations and vices: these are the themes depicted with an acute sense of detail by Bosch, Brueghel and Arcimboldo, and rendered with 360-degree images that completely surround the viewer.

Nothing like it has ever been seen before! They are not simply projections, but images skilfully directed by Gianfranco Iannuzzi, Renato Gatto and Massimiliano Siccardi, accompanied by a riveting and enthralling sound track by Luca Longobardi that will sweep the public away!

The show is divided into three parts. It opens with a prologue inspired by the creation of the world according to Bosch, that is by The Garden of Earthly Delights, and unfolds on the walls, the windows and the floor, which become the canvas of works like The Ascent of the Blessed (1500, Bosch), The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (c. 1615, Brueghel and Rubens), River Landscape (Brueghel), Allegory of Music (Brueghel), Earth (c. 1570, Arcimboldo), The Last Judgement (Bosch), Tower of Babel (1563, Pieter Brueghel the Younger), Spring (Arcimboldo) and Four Seasons in One Head (c. 1590, Arcimboldo).

The surreal, dream-like scenes swarm with bizarre characters. They conjure enchanted worlds that make visitors want to enter them and journey through the fascinating universes that they can study in fine detail – just like a scholar with a magnifying glass standing inches away from the canvas.

The show was written by Gianfranco Iannuzzi, Renato Gatto and Massimiliano Siccardi, and the sound track is by Luca Longobardi.

THE SHOW
After the prologue, the wings of the triptych open and the show begins. The first part focuses on the idealized world of Bosch and his mystical and grotesque characters, allegories of diabolical places offering temptations and of harmonious images of a time before the Original Sin.

The second part spotlights the Brueghel dynasty, which is presented through images of the landscape and everyday life in Flanders with its celebration of the seasons, its dances and feasts, projecting the public into the midst of the peasants' spontaneous merrymaking.

The third part takes us from the countryside to the village and its squares, where we are the guests at a great feast with tables weighed down by all manner of fruit and game. Still lifes that Arcimboldo's brush recomposes in anthropomorphic portraits, building them up with masterly skill and great inventiveness.

The epilogue takes us back to the Garden of Earthly Delights featured in the prologue: a finale outside space and time, in which the public can stroll through an enchanted garden populated by extraordinary creatures.

A journey not only through images but also sound. The non-stop sequence of images is accompanied by different kinds of captivating music: a contemporary piece by Luca Longobardi for soprano, strings and electronics for the Prologue; Carmina Burana by Carl Orff for the first part; The Four Seasons by Vivaldi for the second, and Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, for the third.

And then the grand finale: the 2012 tribute version of Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, which transforms the scene into a rock concert, completing the circle that began with the prologue: a journey through the different musical periods, where each piece is a classic, an established model with all its many nuances.

REVE 2.0
A synaesthetic immersion in the very essence of colours and sounds. Rêve 2.0 is not a daydream but a journey into the synapses of cognition, where everything becomes something else, which results in a cataloguing of reality defined by the stylemes of a new perception. A kind of analog augmented reality in which our senses become the sensorial accessory par excellence. From the Fun City to the Archetypal Universe via the City of the Unconscious, in magical forests and fathomless aquariums. Images and music express the objective beauty of enjoyment in a contemporary celebration of the emotive spectrum.