About This Event
From 9pm on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 May, the National Gallery will light up the front of the building on Trafalgar Square with a spectacular projection-mapped show to mark the start of its Bicentenary. The show is part of the Gallery’s Big Birthday Weekend and the light show is a completely free and unticketed way to celebrate the Gallery’s 200th birthday home in the heart of central London.
Conceived by the National Gallery, produced by Nvisible Productions, and designed in collaboration with Visual Edge and Creative Technology, the projections will bring the inside of the building to the outside, telling the story the Gallery’s history and will immerse the watching public into the world of the paintings. The display will last approximately eight minutes and there will be a short break between showings, over the course of two hours.
Featured in the light show are narrations from Gallery staff, interviews with members of the public and audio extracts courtesy of Exhibition on Screen from the upcoming feature film ‘My National Gallery’, available to watch in cinemas from 4 June.
Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery, said, ‘We are thrilled to see so many people wanting to celebrate the National Gallery’s Big Birthday weekend and we’re excited to be programming something so vivid and grand on Friday and Saturday evening. We hope lots of people will join us, whether to spot their favourite painting or to hear something new about the Gallery.’
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