Have you ever gazed at a masterpiece at the art museum and wished you could step into its world? Now you can journey through more than 200 works by Pablo Picasso in a new immersive experience at Pullman Yards. The exhibition “Imagine Picasso” will be on view through June 19. Annabelle Mauger, the exhibition director, joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes via Zoom to talk about what art lovers can expect when they move through the experience.
How Mauger went about creating an immersive Picasso world:
“In 2009, there was a huge exhibition about Picasso in Le Grand Palais in Paris, and I just thought, ‘Okay, why don’t we do something about Picasso in an immersive way?’” said Mauger. “It was something important for me to do it the way I wanted to do it. And this means for me, Picasso was not only a painter; he was a sculptor. And I just thought, ‘Okay, why don’t we sculpt his paintings?’”
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