Visit the first phosphorescent art museum in Amsterdam
In the Netherlands Amsterdam more precisely, there is a very shifty, fun, unpublished activity, an experience that goes beyond the simple consumption of art for art: it is the phosphorescent art museum .
This gallery called Electric Lady (the same name as Jimi Hendrix's last album) is simply one of the most unusual places to discover in the northern Venice.
An unusual place
With its flowers in front, portraits of musicians and abstract fluorescent paintings, this museum is one of the curiosities of the Dutch capital not to be missed. The founder, Nick Padalino, confessed to having had the idea of fluorescence in 1969 in the middle of Flower Power while discovering his first black light.
Not only is the theme atypical in this museum, but the approach is just as extraordinary: in fact, several objects exhibited are subject to color variations depending on the movements of the bodies.
While in general the experience of the museum is quite repetitive, while the visitor generally remains “outside” of the works, here it is an integral part of the works proposed. The usual distance with works is abolished so that everyone is fully immersed in a multicolored world.
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Mystical works?
The founder of this stunning museum claims Hindu and even shaman influences. This is why, in a clear-cut, well-worked, between black light and phosphorescent surfaces, you will enter a very singular universe with works with evocative names such as “The Reactor”, “The Country between Tic and Toc”, “The Himalayas”, “The Hidden Caves” or “Sauter through the Wall of Time”.
One. jump in time which is not so far from reality, could one say, so many ideas are grunting, delirious, between Pop culture and LSD.
Fluorescent mineral art
By entering this extraordinary museum, you discover sculptures with stones that react to UV rays. The artist is present and walks his UV lamp on certain works to vary the colors.
Then you have the possibility to go down to the basement and admire other works, including a gigantic that has asked for no less than nine years of work: by sweeping the lamp on these works, one reveals such or such color for a rather dynamic final rendering.
On the walls, paintings depicting landscapes and animals are hung and if in the light of the day, nothing transcribes, as soon as the darkness places, the place turns into a fantasmagorie of the most creative.
How can we pass next to this awesome and atypical place, at the cross between a living demonstration of a know-how and the power of our imagination? A small museum, not always obvious to find, hidden as a pepit and found in the Jordaan district . (Address: Tweede Leliedwarsstraat 5, Amsterdam, Netherlands ).
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