The best lighting installations and LED installations. Giant light bulbs in Lyon
Acrylic in architecture
Plexiglass and light - perfect combination to create decorative compositions that surprise with their novelty and creativity. Light radiation acquires a magical shine when reflected in glossy or matte acrylic glass. Light has the ability to penetrate the structure of acrylic, merge with it, forming a completely new “element” that can be admired forever. The technique of combining acrylic and light is used by many modern innovative designers who create extraordinary lamps from plexiglass.
Light geometry: plexiglass lamps from Carlo Bernardini
Italian artist Carlo Bernardini became famous for his light masterpieces created using fiber optic cables. In some works, the artist uses angular blanks of transparent acrylic glass. To see the clear shape of the light geometric shapes, you need to choose a strictly defined point of view. Otherwise, the fiber optic threads look like a chaotic glowing labyrinth. The sculptures are extremely popular all over the world and are considered an example of an innovative approach to creating design compositions.
Art installation Fish Bellies: exclusive plexiglass lamps
American designers Joe O'Connell and Blessing Hancock created an extraordinary lighting composition, each element of which has a ring shape and consists of several layers of matte acrylic. Multi-colored acrylic elements look like glowing fish. The frame of the structure is made of steel, LED lamps are used for lighting. Lighting modes can be changed using the touch control system. To place their masterpiece, the authors of the project chose the park of the University of San Marcos, Texas, USA.
According to the designers, the plexiglass lamps contain symbolic meaning: The installation demonstrates the similarity of the richness of biological processes occurring in the nearby San Marcos River and the diversity of the student community. Students love to spend time near Fish Bellies, climb to the upper levels of the structure, relax inside the rings and, perhaps, reflect on the unity of humanity with nature. Being in a kind of niche, the student maintains his individual space without moving away from society - this is how Joe OConnell and Blessing Hancock see the installation. Today, the composition is not only a symbol of the college town in San Marcos, but a world-famous sculpture.
A labyrinth of rainbow plexiglass lamps in China
In the city of Hainan (China), a unique LED installation with plexiglass lamps “YǓZHÒU” was created. The project was implemented for the exhibition “Luneng Sanya Bay Light and Art Festival”. The 2.5 meter high structure looks like a labyrinth consisting of acrylic panels covered with self-adhesive film various colors. Due to the presence of this film, a bright rainbow glow appears. The colors change as participants move through the maze.
The panels are also decorated with milled patterns in the form of circles. LED radiation illuminates these elements. Numerous shining circles have a visual resemblance to soap bubbles. Ribbon light sources are located at the base of plexiglass lamps. Acrylic panels located around the perimeter of the installation are covered with a mirror reflective film, creating the effect of infinite space.
Mirror surfaces, rainbow colors, light from plexiglass lamps with changing shades - all this forms an amazing, mesmerizing picture and makes the installation truly unique.
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In addition to the world-famous designer light installations presented above, there are a huge number of other modifications of lamps that cause delight and deserve your attention. Let's take a closer look at the review of creative plexiglass lamps. Our company is ready to bring any of these ideas to life.
Wave-shaped lamps made of molded plexiglass
The visual impression is created that the lamps are made of a thin luminous canvas fluttering in the wind. But this is not frozen fabric, but thin plexiglass processed by thermal molding. For the manufacture of asymmetrical lamps, manual thermoforming is used: the workpiece is heated in an oven, becomes plastic - in this state it can be given any shape. Working with thin plexiglass is not easy, one wrong move can lead to defects, but our specialists have extensive experience in performing such operations. Thanks to the professionalism of our company’s craftsmen, we can produce wave-shaped lamps with unique, complex shapes.
Block lamps
Such lamps are dominated by strict lines and shapes. The main structural elements are rectangular blocks made of transparent or colored plexiglass. There are many design options: the blocks can be single or combined with each other into one design composition. From rectangular blocks you can make a night light, table lamp, floor lamp, sconce or chandelier. A pattern or texture can be engraved on the surface of the plexiglass - such decor shines softly in the rays of LED lighting.
Sphere and hemisphere lamps
Using plexiglass blowing technology, we can produce spherical and hemispherical lamps of any color and size. We blow not only regular shapes, but also hemispheres in the form of flat lenses, egg-shaped structures, hemispheres with an oval or rectangular base, etc. By gluing two halves, we produce spherical lamps of various types.
Exclusive lamps of original shapes
Plexiglas lamps can have the most unexpected shapes. Our capabilities allow us to implement bold design solutions. In our work, we use modern technologies for processing plexiglass on CNC machines - milling, engraving, chemical gluing, thermoforming in an oven on dies, vacuum forming, blowing, bending, polishing.
We work with both transparent and colored plexiglass from leading European manufacturers. Therefore, if you are looking for a responsible contractor for the manufacture of a lamp unusual shape, contact us!
The AkrilChic company produces original custom-made plexiglass lamps of any complexity. Our talented designers generate amazing ideas, the implementation of which is carried out in our own manufacturing plant companies. To become a co-author and participant in the exciting process of giving birth to an acrylic masterpiece, just call us. We will make your dream come true!
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Transparent chandeliers for the exhibition “Smells. The invisible beauty of St. Petersburg"
If art locked within the walls of a museum always has its place, then installations on fresh air truly inspiring, giving viewers a wider angle of view. These three-dimensional works are usually assigned a specific location, meaning they were created for that specific location. Today we offer you ten best examples similar installations.
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1. A cathedral of 55,000 LED light bulbs.
During this year's Festival of Lights in Ghent, Belgium, a stunning project of 55,000 LED lights was created. The vibrant cathedral invited viewers to walk through its 27-meter-high entrance into a fairy-tale gallery bathed in light and color. This amazing work, done in a mixed Romanesque-Renaissance style, is one of those installations that must be seen with your own eyes to be believed.
2. Interactive electrical cloud.
This large interactive installation called "Cloud" was created Canadian artist Caitling Brown. She was featured in September of this year at an exhibition in Calgary. The "cloud" is made from over 5,000 light bulbs, fluorescent bulbs and strings that can be pulled. Visitors could walk through the rain of ropes, turning the lights on and off. This gave a funny illusion that lightning was passing through the cloud.
3. Cloud of 10,000 Swarovski crystals.
Using 10,000 Swarovski crystals and wire, artists Andy Kao and Xavier Perrault collaborated with J.P. Poll created a beautiful cloud on Arbor Terrace in Georgetown, Washington. And under the cloud there was a pond, in the clear waters of which thousands of crystals were reflected.
4. Interactive huge red heart.
If you happened to be in Times Square in New York City on Valentine's Day this year, you probably saw this 10-foot red heart. It was created by Danish architecture firm BIG from 400 clear LED acrylic tubes that pulsed bright red light when people standing nearby touched each other. How? As people gathered in the square, their footsteps collected like energy being converted into light. Thus, the crowd made the heart burn brighter and brighter. Love each other!
5. A canopy of colorful umbrellas.
As part of the Aguitagueda art festival this July, two streets in Portugal were decorated with beautiful, colorful umbrellas. And they not only saved those below from the sun, but seemed to be something magical, hanging in the air on “invisible” wires.
7. Horses in the river.
These sculptures were created by Richard Morse. His installation features life-size sculptures of horses made from dead apple trees, and installed in the Grand River. This installation symbolizes the struggle and persistence that we all must go through during difficult situations.
7. Illuminated sheets of paper in the wind.
London designer Paul Cocksedge has created an amazing installation that resembles sheets of paper blown by the wind. He created this masterpiece for the Festival of Lights in Lyon, France. The installation appeared in the courtyard of the Lyon Hotel de Ville. It was 25 meters long and consisted of glowing light bulbs. Each of these 'sheets' was hand sculpted in London and then assembled on site.
8. 100,000 lights in the Tokyo River.
As part of the Tokyo Hotaru Festival, which took place in May this year, an amazing light installation of 100,000 LEDs “shedded” through the center of Tokyo. The lights were called “prayer stars”; they resembled the fireflies that the Japanese love and reverence so much. The LED bulbs were made by Panasonic, and they lit up when they came into contact with water.
9. A river of 10,000 illuminated books.
During the Winter Light Festival in Melbourne, Australia, this installation appeared in the form of 10,000 books scattered everywhere, with light bulbs attached to them. Passers-by were even allowed to take books with them at the end of the festival.
10. 90,000 plastic grapes.
Canadian architects and designers from Claude Cormier + Associes Inc. paid respect to the art of Monet, the father of impressionism. They collected 90,000 plastic balls over the passage to the city hall. These balls are five different colors significantly lifted the mood and resembled colorful grapes.
Olafur Eliasson is a contemporary Danish-Icelandic artist, known for his large-scale art installations that use such simple elements and phenomena such as light, water, temperature, pressure. The artist works on a number of projects in the field of urbanism in many cities around the world. And in 2003, Olafur Eliasson represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale.
Olafur Eliasson. Biography
Born in Copenhagen in 1967. His parents moved to Denmark from Iceland. His father worked as a cook, his mother was a seamstress. When Olafuru was 8 years old, his parents divorced, and he lived with his mother and stepfather, a stockbroker.
Olafur himself considers breakdancing to be his first creative attempts. In the mid-1980s, he and his school friends created a group called the Harlem Gun Crew. The guys performed in clubs and on dance floors for 4 years and even won the Scandinavian Championship.
Between 1989 and 1995 Olafur Eliasso n studied at the Royal Danish Academy fine arts. In 1990, he received a scholarship from the Academy and went to New York, where he began working as an assistant to artist Christian Eckhart in Brooklyn.
After receiving a degree from the Academy, he opened a studio in Berlin - in an old depot near the Hamburger station. In 2008 the studio Eliasson moved to a former brewery in Prenzlauer Berg.
In 1996, the artist began collaborating with Einar Thorstein, an expert in architecture and geometry. First them general product became a stainless steel dome, more than 9 meters wide and 2 meters high. It was placed as if it was growing out of the ground, being part of something much larger, hidden from view underground.
In 2009-2014 he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. During this period, he opened the Institute of Spatial Experiments in his studio. And since 2014, he has been a professor at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design in Addis Ababa.
Olafur Eliasson. Famous works
Project "Weather" at Tate Modern in London
The project was installed in 2003 as part of the famous “Unilevel” series. Using a mixture of water and sugar, as well as humidifiers and hundreds of monochrome light bulbs that emitted yellow light, Eliasson created a kind of fog in one of the gallery halls. At the same time, the ceiling was mirrored, and visitors could see themselves - small figures in the fog. Running for 6 months, the exhibition attracted 2 million visitors, many repeat visitors.
Project "Weather"
Light installations
The work “Room of the same color” (1998) represents a corridor illuminated by yellow mono-frequency pipes. Walking through it, the visitor sees all the surrounding objects in black and white. By the way, this installation was once presented at the PinchukArtCentre along with other works Olafur Eliasson.
The work “Your Blind Passenger” (2010), commissioned by the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art, is a 90-meter tunnel filled with thick fog, through which the visitor must navigate, rather relying on his sixth sense.
Project "Green River"
Having discovered in 1998 the existence of readily available non-toxic uranine powder, which is used to track leaks in water supply systems, he began to actively use it in his installations. The fact is that uranine colors water acidic fluorescent green. For the first time Eliasson used it at the 1998 Berlin Biennale, pouring a handful of powder into the nearby Spree river Museum Island. Later experiments with the safe dye were carried out in Norway, Bremen, Los Angeles, Stockholm and Tokyo - and always without prior notice.
Project "Green River"
Icelandic photos
Periodically presents grids of various color photographs taken exclusively in Iceland. Each group focuses on a specific subject: volcanoes, hot springs, authentic huts. In its first episode Eliasson tried to remove all the bridges in Iceland. He often takes his photographs from the air, on a rented plane.
Icelandic photos
"Your mobile expectations"- general project Olafur Eliasson and the BMW company, in which the artist transformed the 16th art car of this company by applying layers of ice to the car body by spraying 530 liters of water onto special rods and meshes. The created sculpture glowed from within. In 2007-2008, the project “Your Mobile Expectations” was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco in a special temperature-controlled room, and in 2008 at the Pinakothek of Contemporary Art in Munich. Let us remind you that racing cars BMW has already been painted by such famous contemporary artists as Jeff Koons and others.
Project "Your Mobile Expectations"
"New York Falls"- created Olafur Eliasson commissioned by the Foundation public art four artificial waterfalls in New York Harbor, namely at the Pier, under the Brooklyn Bridge, at the Brooklyn Pier and on Governors Islands. The installation was in effect from June 26 to October 13, 2008. Its creation cost $15.5 million and, according to opinion, became Eliasson, the perfect way to draw attention to strength and potential natural resources. After sunset, each waterfall was illuminated, creating a stunning impression.
New York Falls Project on the Brooklyn Bridge
"Parliament of Reality" - permanent job, housed at Bard College in New York. The installation is based on the form of the original Icelandic parliament - one of the earliest democratic forums. The artist conceived this project as a place where students can relax, discuss ideas, or just chat. The Parliament of Reality emphasizes that negotiation must be at the core of any educational scheme. The project is artificial island, surrounded by a lake, trees and wild grasses.
"Your Rainbow Panorama"- Job Olafur Eliasson, which is a round 150-meter corridor with a diameter of 52 meters, made of glass in all colors of the rainbow and placed on the roof of the Art Museum in Aarhus in 2011. Visitors, walking along the corridor, can admire the city panorama. The production of Your Rainbow Panorama cost DKK 60 million and was financed by the Realdania Foundation.
Project "Your Rainbow Panorama".
"Contact"- exhibition of works Olafur Eliasson, opened at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris on December 17, 2015. Moving from room to room, visitors became part of a choreography of darkness, light, geometry and reflection. You can see many photos from the Contact exhibition.
Exhibition "Contact" in Paris
Olafur Eliasson. Exhibitions and collections
Member over 60 personal exhibitions, his works are currently exhibited at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles and others.
Work on the art market Olafur Eliasson represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, Koyanaji Gallery in Tokyo, PKM Gallery in Seoul and Neugarriemschneider Gallery in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson. Personal life
He is married to Marienne Krogh Jensen, an art historian whom he met when she curated the Danish Pavilion at the 1997 São Paulo Biennale in Portugal. They adopted two children, a boy in 2003 and a girl in 2006, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The family lives in a house designed by architect Andreas Laurits Clemensen in Hellerup near Copenhagen.
Design studio Sosolimited has unveiled a new LED interactive sculpture called "Colorspace" in the upper lobby of the 200 Clarendon Street skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts.
The work was commissioned by Boston Properties, which owns and manages the building. Linear light inserts are suspended vertically, as they say “in a wave-like manner” along the wall. Visitors can send text messages (sms) to the project artificial lighting(SSL), and the system responds by interpreting their messages and creating a dynamic interpretation of their messages in the form of light patterns that are displayed for ten minutes.
The LED installation is creative in shape and works as an interactive feature. It consists of 70 vertically suspended LED lines designed specifically for this project. Each element of the light rig is powered by a separate cable and contains a separate "LED" motor at the top of the light strip. As light diffusers, each light strip uses a diffuser made of special Okalux acrylic, which evenly diffuses light along the entire light element.
IN this project, each element can display a full palette of colors, but only one at a time. The system can dynamically change colors based on a pre-programmed sequence or based on recently received messages from users.
“You can literally send the system any message and it will translate your text into a unique color palette of flickering light,” said Eric Guenther, co-founder of Sosolimited. "If you send the word 'Beach', the space will be illuminated in blue and yellow, and the word “Watermelon” will give you shades of pink and green.”
If there are too many text messages from users, the interactive system puts them in a queue, and at the same time informs users about the time at which their text message will be processed and displayed.
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LED installation “Christmas Forest in 100 Colors”
Tokyo-based French architect Emmanuelle Moreau is known for her deft use of color. Her latest project"Christmas Forest in 100 Colors" symbolized the New Year's festive season and was displayed at Omotesando Hills, shopping complex in the center of Tokyo.
The architect was inspired by the local landscapes to create this installation at Omotesando Hills. The installation consisted of 1,500 small paper "trees" painted in one hundred different colors, which were suspended in a space 13.4 meters above main staircase 7 meters wide. Each of these paper “trees” was equipped with an LED light source, allowing them to emit a soft glow. The installation was carried out in volume and therefore offered a unique view to visitors at different levels. In addition, a large triangular-shaped luminous “tree” was installed in the center of the installation, as the central element of the entire installation.
Every 30 minutes there was a special three-minute light show called "Emotional Reflection". During the event, the central large “tree” gradually changed colors from white to yellow, pink, green, blue and rainbow, and the surrounding mini-trees rhythmically changed color to the music specially written for this installation.
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Festive illumination of a country house, streets ★ [Interactive illumination]
New Year, holiday or themed interactive lighting, lighting design, illumination of building facades has turned into a kind of art - it has become possible to create programmable original lighting compositions, distinguish a building from the rest, and highlight individual architectural elements, give the facade an extraordinary appearance. LED light decorations allow you to create a truly festive atmosphere!
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Holiday illumination project for a country house
This wonderful Christmas lighting and yard space project was realized using large quantity standard LED garlands powered by a 220V network, a switching controller and a computer with the necessary software. The project is quite expensive, but believe me, it is worth it.
Step 1: Sketching your ideas on paper
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You can travel by visiting the Porta Estellar light show, which takes you many light years away, from Earth and back, in just six Earth minutes. It is located inside the fuselage of an old DC-9 aircraft. While it remains stationary, some visitors say that this light show actually gives the feeling of flying. More details
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Nuit Blanche Light Festival in Toronto
Became annual festival contemporary art went from 4 to 12 October in Toronto, the capital of Ontario in Canada. The grandiose festival this year celebrated its first, 10-year anniversary; more than 110 art projects created by hundreds contemporary artists and representatives of the arts.
Local residents and visitors of the city could enjoy bright and creative projects, among which many compositions were presented in the light of LED lighting beams.
One of Toronto's most popular landmarks is the CN Tower, which emitted a rainbow of light on the opening day of the contemporary art festival. The public was especially active at night - it was in the dark that Toronto shimmered with multi-colored LED lights, without which almost no exhibition project was complete.
A striking and memorable exhibit at the Nuit Blanche exhibition in Toronto was the Cave of Light - undoubtedly, this installation was the most impressive and daring among other projects presented at the festival. The composition, which looked like an inflatable elephant illuminated by LEDs, symbolized the unity of energy and light; spectators could freely walk inside the structure, admiring the grandeur of light and freedom of space.
Other no less interesting composition– the monumental projection on the facade of the OISIE building, called Time of the Empress, also attracted the attention of visitors with its structural outlines. The composition symbolized the instability of many life processes.
A 70-metre projection of the silhouette of a pine tree, rendered in white light, illuminated the façade of the North Office Tower in Toronto. The creators of the project wanted to convey to the audience the idea that in ancient times, white pines reached a height of 70 meters, while now these unique trees grow to a height of no more than 30 meters, and such giants can hardly be found anywhere in modern landscapes.
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At Design Saturday 2016, Belux took center stage with their new product launch "Hello"
Their presentation was accompanied by an LED installation designed by Stefan Hürlemann. The installation “Hello” consists of spiral cables, which gives them a recognizable character. Five, 4-meter double spiral ribbons are suspended in a darkened room. They consist of horizontal stripes extending from a central vertical stripe. At the ends of each there is one white and one black ball.
The strips are driven by electric motors, which turn them quickly and then slow down. With all this, in low light conditions, only white balls are visible, which are constantly describing new spirals, as if performing their poetic dance. Sometimes the spirals are dense, sometimes they create an almost straight line, and sometimes they seem to be interrupted at certain points. Visitors can walk between the dancing spheres while listening to a melody of overlapping pure tones composed specifically for the installation.
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The Rhythm and Form project is a series of 3 large public sculptures installed in locality called Bethesda, Maryland. Commissioned by the Donohoe Company, three unique light sculptures from a series of twisted forms that combine glass, metal and water images. A stainless steel strip is depicted as a stream of water passing through an area, based on the three physical states of water. As the stainless steel strip passes through the glass, its shape transforms into a grille with inserted LED lights.
The various components of these installations were created by many different manufacturers within the USA. The sculpture and its components were designed and manufactured in Brooklyn, New York, and Milwaukee. Completed in December 2013, Rhythm and Form was Jason Krugman Studio's first permanent outdoor public art installation. Over the course of 3 years, the company developed physical and digital models, which finally culminated in the final works. Jason Krugman Studio crafted the sculpture's LED arrays, spending hundreds of hours welding stainless steel and adjusting molds to ensure continuity of lines between the main components.
British artist Bruce Munro, born 1959, studied at the Royal Western Academy, Bristol Polytechnic.
The designer's strong point is landscape lighting. Using acrylic tubes with decorative tips and optical fiber, Bruce achieves fantastic effects.
Munro's portfolio includes original lamps, lighting projects for private gardens and city streets, and much more. And from time to time his ideas result in large-scale and spectacular installations, which brought the designer well-deserved fame.
One of the studio’s most high-profile projects is the Field of Light installation as part of the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. The installation was installed on a grass roof exhibition center and consisted of 6,000 acrylic tubes terminated with glass sphere tips containing optical fibers.
Munro and his five assistants created the work over three days. The installation is illuminated by eleven spotlights; the stems, by themselves, have no electricity. The area covered with luminous grass is 60x20 meters, 24,000 meters of optical cable were used.
Munro's luminous masterpiece was inspired by a trip to the red desert in Australia. Driving along the Stewart Highway, he stopped every night at campuses along the road, which often created a very contrasting appearance to the surrounding barren desert: oases of greenery embodying living sculptures of surreal design and proportions.
Munro was amazed by the natural processes in the desert: the bare, scorched earth came to life and blossomed after the rain. He made a series of sketches and kept them since his college days.
The Field of Light is an alien, a stranger in the natural world. Like seeds thrown onto a desert land that wait for the rain to come to life, the optical stems wait for the darkness and, together with the lighting stars, come to life and shine, corresponding to the smooth rhythms of the night.
The Light Shower project at Salisbury Cathedral is a giant luminaire made from 2,000 pieces of fiber optic cable. different lengths illuminated by powerful spotlights.
In ancient English Salisbury, the desire to keep up with the times led to the appearance of another very unusual installation on the territory of the ancient cathedral:
Water-Towers / Water towers are assembled from 15 thousand plastic bottles filled with water, through which 69 kilometers of fiber optic cable are passed. Their shape resembles water towers, which explains the name of the project. The optical fiber is illuminated with LEDs that change color to the music, making the water columns appear to be dancing in the dark.
The main idea of the installation is Divine Light, joy, enlightenment. “Illumination” is the key word in this project.
Bruce Monroe: “I am primarily interested in light! And how different materials react to it. For my project, I was looking for a cheap, pliable, and, most importantly, accessible material. And it dawned on me - this is a bottle.”
The rector of the cathedral thought that the installation would be made of glass. And when I found out that they would bring plastic bottles, I had to convene a church council.
Mark Boni, pastor: “I won’t explain anything! I say, go and see for yourself. Paintings and sculptures are created so that we look and think. Art begins where it is difficult to find words.”
Within a few days we got used to the “Water Towers”. In the evenings, photographers and loving couples gather near them. A new attraction has appeared in the city.
CD Sea / Sea of CDs.
Bruce Munro, with the help of the British press and BBC Wiltshire radio, appealed to readers and listeners with a request to send him unwanted CDs. People did not remain indifferent, not only the British, but also residents of other countries, and after some time, through the efforts of Bruce, another sea appeared in Britain - laid out from CDs on the grass.
On June 19-20, 2010, Bruce Munro, as well as 140 of his friends, acquaintances and colleagues, began creating the installation. In a field near the village of Kilmington, they mowed a patch of grass and began laying discs in the resulting clearing. The result was an amazing “inner” sea, consisting of 600 thousand CDs), reflecting sunlight and moonlight, like small mirrors.
Bruce Munro was inspired to create this installation by the impressions he received on the seashore in Australia thirty years ago. “The light was so strong that the water seemed to glow silver. And it suddenly seemed to me that if I put my hand in the sea, it would somehow connect me to my home in Salcombe, where my father lived... I left the beach in a very good mood,” says the author. That day, for the first time, the boy realized that such a familiar phenomenon as light could influence emotional state person. The installation "CD Sea" was a recreation of that moment, which, as it later turned out, influenced the rest of Bruce Munro's life.
The installation lasted for about two months, after which all the disks were collected and sent to a processing plant.
Longwood Gardens - Longwood Gardens -
called the American answer to the famous gardens of Europe and recognized as an example of a harmonious combination of gardening, architecture, music and theater
Bruce Munro has been invited to create a large-scale exhibition, LIGHT!, which will open in the summer of 2012. For the designer, this will be the first light installation in North America. The organizers promise an unforgettable spectacle.
It is assumed that the LIGHT! will include seven huge light installations in open areas, two in the premises of the Conservatory with an area of 16 thousand square meters, as well as a small exhibition of artfully illuminated sculptures.
The glowing globes, made from blown glass and plastic, will be connected by an electrical “root system” and placed in a large open area.
