Images and information are provided courtesy of Patrick Mevel is the photographer behind lightemotion photography. In response to the spirit of cartier avenue in Quebec City, Canada, the lighting design company lightemotion created an installation consisting of thirty-four enormous backlit lampshades that were embellished with a selection of works of art from the Museum of the National Collection of Art of Quebec… Whether it be through the illumination of building facades and interiors in Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania, or through the conceptualization of this enormous light installation that transforms Quebec into a “true international winter capital,” lightemotion has garnered a formidable reputation for the originality and efficiency of its lighting designs across the world. The company’s goal is to capture the warmth of a neighborhood life that is marked by a strong sense of community spirit via the use of art and the picturesque neighborhood with the enormous lampshades. At the same time, the installation had to be so impressive that it could stand on its own as a separate event. Considering that on the one hand, the shape of the lighting fixtures gives the avenue the cozy warmth of a residential interior, and on the other hand, the large works of art, which are backlit by led strips and mounted on circular structures that are 8 feet across and 5 feet high, are an original urban medium for displaying art, the idea of hanging lampshades was a perfect fit. lightemotion has developed a concept of an art gallery floating in space, which could inspire many more projects of this kind all over the world. This concept is a flexible concept that designs the positioning, shape, and size of its lampshades in order to compose an environment that is capable of creating movement in the city. This is accomplished while working within the technical and architectural constraints of cartier avenue. With a selection of works by Alfred Pellan and Fernand Leduc from its permanent collection, the Museum National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, which is the most important museum of fine arts in the city, has assisted in transforming the 34 lampshades into a temporary outdoor art gallery. The museum has also handled the artistic direction for the reproduction of these works on the enormous lighting fixtures. The selection of the two Quebec painters allows lightemotion’s idea to be fully expressed. This is made possible by the graphic design components that can be found in the work of the first artist, as well as by Leduc’s trademark investigations of light. Lightemotion’s innovation has the benefit of being adaptable, despite the fact that the winter show is intended to be a temporary display (it is slated to remain until the end of March). In order to showcase a new artist or topic each year, the works that are mounted on the shades may be readily swapped from time to time. This capacity shows that the method of displaying suspended backlit materials has a large variety of possibilities, including the possibility of showing art, submissions for urban-art competitions, concert posters, or pictures depicting various elements of life in the neighborhood. In addition, the current proposal has provisions for the re-use of the lighting fixtures in order to produce fresh yearly exhibitions for the following five years. as a means of expressing urban identity This project is a component of a master plan that was presented to the Office of Tourism in Quebec in 2013. The plan in question asks for the lighting of a number of other key arteries. The project is more than just a conventional street installation; rather, it is a genuine vehicle for conveying the essence of the city. Putting an emphasis on the significance of light for northern cities, the Office of Tourist of Quebec intends to make use of this kind of installation in order to draw attention to its tourism programs and to promote the city on a global scale as a winter capital. Here is a link to the photographs that can be found on indiaartndesign.com:
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