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Oudoor lighting: Festival Grec
Sun, Moon & Water x LEDS C4
During the summer months the outdoors takes on the same qualities as the indoors. It’s the best place to spend time and when there is also a varied cultural offering like the Festival Grec, even better. The outdoor areas of Monjuic around the amphitheatre become a performance space, a place to socialise, to eat and drink. The stunning gardens of the Teatre Grec this year are being illuminated with a lighting installation created by LEDS C4.
The area defined by the gardens is the perfect setting for an outdoor lighting installation. With its beautiful open spaces, arbours, passageways and staircases there are many different areas for the lighting to illuminate. The inspiration for the LEDS C4 lighting installation within the Teatre Grec gardens is a legend from the tribes of south east Nigeria, adapted for the west by the English writer Elphinstone Dayrell, “The Sun, the Moon and the Water”, the moral of which extols the value of friendship.
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The Sun, the Moon and the Water are good friends, they play together in the House of the Water, but Water never visits the Sun and the Moon. On a whim one day Water decides to visit, but not before warning them that she needs a large space, because she has numerous family and friends. The Sun and the Moon decide to build a garden to welcome their friend, but when she and her relatives begin to arrive, the space becomes smaller and smaller; time passes and the Water continues to flood everything, until finally, the Sun and the Moon, not to offend their friend Water, end up moving to the sky, leaving all the available space on earth to water. “And although they take turns looking down curiously, they have never touched the ground again since then,” so the story concludes.
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The main element of the installation design is a circle, a minimal expression of the Sun, used throughout the area of the gardens. These rings were developed by the LEDS C4 special projects department. A total of 16 are featured, installed at a height of 3 m on sculptural structures with a diameter of 1.5 m each, they are strategically placed throughout the gardens and recreate, from east to west, the changing of colours of the sunset, from 7:00 p.m. to midnight. This colour transition was carefully studied and programmed for the 16 rings that make up the installation. These circles are accompanied by other floor lights in the food & drink area and garden corridors, symbolizing water and friendship with a cold blue tone.
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