“Let’s light up Christmas” in Pinerolo

“Let’s light up Christmas” in Pinerolo

Kandinsky, Mirò and Mondrian in Pinerolo to decorate the Christmas of the Piedmontese town with an elegance with abstract, surreal and neoplastic lines typical of the styles of the artists mentioned. Goboservice and its partner Onelectric interpreted the desire for originality of the junta chaired by the mayor Luca Salvai and his deputy with responsibility for tourism, Francesca Costarelli, accepting the idea of getting involved to create a luminous scenography at the same time innovative and Christmas .

Anti-glare gobos

Anti-glare gobos

In figure 1 we see the projection of two gobos.

You notice that in the one on the left the part that should be black looks gray, so much so that you can also see the stick placed in front of the gobo. It may appear that “some light” passes through the parts that should be black in the gobo. In reality this is not the case. The phenomenon is in fact due to the so-called “back reflections”, that is to the reflections of the light on the lens as shown in figure 2.

“Sogno o son Deste”, the gobo-projections for a renewed culture of color

“Sogno o son Deste”, the gobo-projections for a renewed culture of color

On Friday 13th July, in an embrace of light, the past and the future met on the terraces of the Rocca di Vignola, a 13th century fortification located in the province of Modena. Towers and ramparts of the military artifact for a long time owned by the Contrari family, have returned to shine with the original decorations and colors no longer to affirm the lordship of a House over the territory as it once was, but that of the culture of color. The Vignola Foundation and the Apparati Epimeri visual design studio with the cultural project “SOGNO O SON DESTE” – created in collaboration with the foundations of the Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Carife (Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara) and BPER Banca – have committed themselves to an ambitious challenge: to create a highly original proposal for the iconological promotion of some of the most important artistic treasures that enrich Emilia.