'VERMEER AND MUSIC' Continues Exhibition On Screen Series Today

Award-winning arts documentary maker Phil Grabsky & Seventh Art Productions in association with BY Experience, the global leaders in alternative content, continue to connect major exhibitions from across the world with art lovers in more than 30 countries with their first of a kind series specifically for cinema, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN.

The latest film in the series - Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure at the National Gallery, London screens worldwide today, October 10, 2013. Pre-production is also now underway for cinema art events for five major global exhibitions in 2014. To view the trailer, visit www.ExhibitionOnScreen.com.

Audiences in more than 1000 cinemas throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America are able to enjoy, marvel and delight at the works of some of history's greatest ever painters, in the comfort of their local cinema.

Appropriately the series began at the National Gallery, London with Leonardo Live (November 2011) the first ever exhibition from a museum or gallery shown in cinemas. That was followed by Manet: Portraying Life from the Royal Academy, London and Munch 150 from Oslo's National Gallery and Munch Museum.

For many, Vermeer is the most startling and fascinating painter in history - and this event film will show, for the first time ever, more than half of his stunning paintings in high-definition glory on the big screen. Not only will it capture a fascinating exhibition that explores the musical pastimes of 17th-century Netherlands by combining the art of Vermeer and his contemporaries with rare musical instruments, songbooks and live music from the Academy of Ancient Music - "A seductive show that lives up to the master's erotic side" (Jonathan Jones, The Guardian) - it will also provide an in-depth look at Vermeer's biography and artistic output.

As well as London, it has been filmed in New York - where audiences are treated to the first large screen images from the new Vermeer room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring all five of their Vermeer's hanging together for the first time - and also Washington, where four more works by the Dutch master hang. Back in Europe, the film visits Amsterdam and then The Hague & Delft to explore these masterpieces such as the iconic Girl with a Pearl Earring and to find out more about the life of the man who created them - along the way with expert comments from the world's leading authorities and also help from bestselling novelist Tracey Chevalier, whose novel led to the best-selling 2003 film, Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson.

Dr. Nicholas Penny, Director of the National Gallery, London said "The National Gallery believed it was doing something both novel and of great value in bringing together Vermeer and his contemporaries with the music of that period- however another innovative feature of this exhibition is its partnership with Phil Grabsky and EXHIBITION, as it is through the medium of film that this partnership between painting and music can also be enjoyed all over the globe."

Phil Grabsky says,"To have launched the 2013 season with three stunning shows from three world class venues has been an absolute thrill - and I have been bowled over by the positive audience response. So many people simply would never have a chance to see these exhibitions - nor, often, these paintings in such detail nor these artists' biographies in such an accessible and engaging way. I want to encourage people to go to galleries but if you live thousands of miles away or indeed are elderly, infirm or simply can't get child-care, then people are delighted with what we are doing".

Echoing Grabsky's comments, host of the Vermeer show, leading arts broadcaster Tim Marlow added "I think that standing face-to-face with some of the greatest works of art ever made is one of the most powerful experiences in life. 'EXHIBITION ON SCREEN' gives us the opportunity to convey something of this power in a cinematic format which brings the viewer as close to the real thing as possible. Sometimes, the camera reveals even more than the naked eye ..."

Tickets for Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure at the National Gallery, London are now on sale at participating venue box offices and on-line at www.ExhibitionOnScreen.com. The events are supported by DSAT Cinema, www.dsatcinema.com.

Phil Grabsky is an award-winning documentary film-maker. With a film career spanning 25 years, Phil and his companies Seventh Art Productions & PhilGrabskyFilms.com make films for cinema, television and DVD. Phil's cinema films include Muhammad Ali - Through the Eyes of the World, The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, In Search of Mozart, Escape from Luanda, In Search of Beethoven, Leonardo Live and The Boy Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan. Phil has most recently completed In Search of Haydn and is now working on a major film about Beethoven with leading pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. These films have played in festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards for Best Film, Best Documentary, Best Cinematography, Best Screenwriting, Best Editing and Best Music. Among Phil's many other films are the Tim Marlow arts shows. Within this series Phil and co-director Ben Harding made the world's first 3D visual arts film: Tim Marlow on British Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts. Phil has also made six award-winning history films with Monty Python's Terry Jones. Working with co-director David Bickerstaff, he has also completed the acclaimed short documentaryHeavy Water: a Journey to Chernobyl, which uses Mario Petrucci's poetry to explore the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Two more co-directed films with David Bickerstaff are The Making of Swallows and Amazons - the Bristol Old Vic Sets Sail and Making War Horse - a film following the production of the smash theatre hit War Horse. Phil has written four books; The Great Commanders, I Caesar, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Great Artists and The Lost Temple of Java. All are available on audible and Kindle. Phil has been honoured with awards for Services to Television, Lifetime Director and Services to the Arts & Education. For more information, visit philgrabskyfilms.com.

BY EXPERIENCE kicked off the digital revolution of live events to movie theaters and other locations globally with David Bowie's 2003 Reality album launch and since then, over 18 million tickets have been sold worldwide for cinema events BY Experience has distributed globally. Credits: Worldwide HD Distribution Representative, The Met: Live in HD series (2006 to present); International (ex-UK) Distribution Representative, the U.K.'s National Theatre Live series (2009 to present); Executive Producer for Cinema Leonardo Live (February 2012) and the series Exhibition: Great Art on Screen(April 2013 to present), the public radio shows Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Live (2013), This American Life - Live! with Ira Glass (2008, 2009, 2012) and APrairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (February and October 2010), the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of The Importance of Being Earnest (June 2011), Red Hot Chili Peppers Live: I'm With You (August 2011); The Big Four: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax (June 2010),St. Olaf Christmas Festival (2007 and 2011), the New York Times speaker's series TimesTalks LIVE (2009), David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live from the Royal Albert Hall (September 2007), Distributor to Cinema Westlife: The Farewell Concert (June 2012), the classic music celebration BBC Last Night of the Proms (2009 - 2012), BBC Electric Proms: Robbie Williams (October 2009). BY Experience distributes to over 60 countries, to 2,000 movie screens. For more information, visit: www.byexperience.net.

To post a comment, you must register and login.