(Paris) Immersive projections, multimedia show over 2000 m2reconstitution of the office of the “youth idol”… A major exhibition dedicated to Johnny Hallyday will take place in Brussels from December to June, before Paris in 2024, his widow Laeticia Hallyday announced on Tuesday.
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“My duty, entrusted by Johnny: to bring his work to life, so that it continues to accompany its millions of fans, and the new generations”, underlines in a press release Mme Hallyday, co-producer of this event with a budget of 12 million euros ($16 million) and which required two years of preparation.
“Through this journey through time, thanks to a multisensory and emotional experience, I want everyone to be able to rediscover or discover the man that Johnny was, by combining the spectacular and the intimate,” adds Laeticia Hallyday.
Johnny Hallyday the Exhibitionconceived in twelve chapters, aims in particular to “revive the emotion of his concerts”.
An installation will bring together guitars, the rocker’s stage costumes, his last four motorcycles and hundreds of personal objects never revealed before. The singer’s teenage room will also be reconstructed to better trace “74 years of an extraordinary life”.
The Palais des Expositions in Brussels will be the premiere of the event, from December 20 to June 15, 2023. Johnny Hallyday the Exhibition will then be presented in Paris, at the Parc des expositions de la Porte de Versailles from January 2024.
“The exhibition will also offer a dive into Johnny’s America, as well as “Saint-Barth” where he rests today. […] Jean Reno will lend his voice and accompany visitors throughout their visit”, indicates the note of intent.
The visitor will begin his journey with a show made up of the various spectacular appearances of Johnny, who died of cancer on December 5, 2017. The organizers are expecting 1.2 million visitors. After Brussels and Paris, other French cities are being considered.
In September 2021, four years after his disappearance, Paris paid tribute to the singer with a commemorative concert in Bercy, after the inauguration of a statue and an esplanade in his name.