Leonardo Da Vinci on the big screen. This is not a joke. It’s Leonardo Live. The movie will explore the National Gallery’s exhibition - Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan - on opening night, that took place on the 8th November 2011, and feature detailed examinations of the paintings and interviews with special guests and experts.
Art historian Mariella Frostrup and White Cube gallery director Tim Marlow will be leading the cinema’s audience through the exhibition and they will be joined by a vast array of guests from the worlds of fashion, theatre, film and the arts.
In the first 10 days the London exhibition – still running until 5 February 2012 - was assaulted by more than 300 thousand visitors, enough to get sold out in early December. For this reason, the National Gallery has decided to offer, to the vast public unable to book a ticket, a new way into the magnificent world of Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo Live is a guided tour in high definition that from 16 February 2012 will allow art lovers all around the world to admire the paintings and drawings collected by the curators in London without making any queue.
Thanks to the collaboration between the award-winning director Phil Grabsky and the National Gallery in London Leonardo is now launched as a movie star. It's the first time that a museum exhibition becomes a movie, a process already common to theater, opera and ballet. When the 100-minute documentary will be screened around the world the International Exhibition at the National Gallery in London will have already closed down and more than 60 paintings and drawings will have been returned to the rightful owners. Now Leonardo’s star will be shine forever - but most importantly - for everybody.
