Digital art has followers in Valencia. This is demonstrated by the figures from the first major exhibition of this new stage of Pumps Gens Center d’Arts Digitals in Valencia. The exhibition has managed to attract 15,114 visitors before completing its first month on the bill. The success has led to the exhibition being extended until June 27, with advance ticket sales now available at the box office. Pumps Gens Center d’Arts Digitals and online at www. bombagens.com.
“We are very happy with the reception the exhibition has had in Valencia, as well as the feedback we are receiving from the people who visit it. Although ‘Dalí Cibernético’ has already passed successfully through cities like Barcelona, London, Berlin or Copenhagen, València offers the largest adaptation of the exhibition, including the largest metaverse room in Europe. And we are pleased to see that the people who have come have been fascinated,” says Artur Duart, director of Bombas Gens Center d’Arts Digitals.
The exhibition, which coincides with the commemoration of 120th anniversary of the artist’s birth, offers a journey through the mind and work of genius of Figueres, paying special attention to its relationship with science and cybernetics.
The public that has passed through the rooms of the old hydraulic pump factory since March 27 is mostly from the Valencian Community, although there is a considerable percentage of visitors from other parts of Spain and internationally, bringing together more than 60 nationalities. different.
It is a Layers of Reality production, curated by Imma Fondevila and Anna Pou, and developed together with the Gala – Salvador Dalí Foundation that offers an approach to Dalí’s thought practically unpublished for the general public until now.
“A good summary of his artistic career”, “the virtual reality room left me speechless, one of the coolest things I have done in a long time: we were able to live in a Dalí dream”, “Tremendous! Even the little ones of one and two years old enjoyed it,” are some of the comments from visitors upon leaving the exhibition.
The largest metaverse room in Europe
The great attraction of this exhibition of digital arts of about 2,500 square meters is undoubtedly the metaverse room in which it is possible to collectively enter the Dalinian universe and enjoy a completely interactive and pioneering experience at a technological level.
