Light illuminates; but it does a lot more than this. Light is like a building material; it models shapes, it tranform space without moving it, it allows the space to be designed and it defines functions without changing the architectural structure. Light is a means of communication; the intensity, the colour, the shades, the transparencies, the movements, the effects and the reflections. It defines the ambience of the room, and in turn it influences the comfort of those who live in that environment. It direct attention to objects, to people, and to their movements. Skilful use of light can highlight...

BRASIL - Porto Alegre - Bittencourt - Museu do GRÊMIO Herminio

The new museum project Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense, designed and produced in collaboration by Mather & Co and MUSE Museums & Expos, aims to become a reference exhibition space in Latin America. Conceived as a hybrid in terms of museum design and exhibition strategy, all dynamic media (lighting, sound, audiovisual and interactive installations) live together in harmony and balance with static and contemplative elements (graphics, displays, stage sets), syncronising by show control to provid emotional visitors experience, each room is different not only in terms of content, but also in presentation....

ITALY - Milan - Palazzo Reale and Fondazione Mazzotta “Dario Fo: Lazzi, Sberleffi, Dipinti”

Milan dedicates to Dario Fo, the Nobel Prize for Literature (1997), the fist major exhibition at Palazzo Reale from the 24th of March to the 3rd of June portraying “live” his commitment to theatre and painting. For this exhibition, Spotlight provided a high tech lighting system that in a very natural way harmonizes the tones with the cool accent light, designed to enhance and maximize the visibility of the main subjects. Technical service : Marzorati Service - Photographer: Daniela Orsi Curated by Felice Cappa for an installation project of Domenico Nicolamarino, the exhibition “Dario Fo in Milano...

FRANCE - Paris - Jardin des Tuileries - “Ahae: Through my Window”

Landscapes and wildlife in all four seasons, from morning’s first light to the day’s last glimmer, through all the mood swings of the seasons as they change, and through the movements of the sun and the moon, have been showcased in the Louvre’s beautiful pavillon of “Les Tuileries” during the summer 2012 and lighted from Spotlight’s innovative LED Profiles from the new Green Line. Presented for the first time in the Grand Central Terminal in New York, the exhibition was showcased also in the National Gallery in Prague, in Kew Gardens in London, in the Vremena Enjoy Galleries of Moscow and in...

ITALY - Milan - Memorial of the Shoah

The memorial of the Shoah in Milan is located at the track 21 of the Central Railway Station in Milan. From here, between 1943 and 1945, hundreds of prisoners were boarded onto freight cars direct to gathering or concentration and extermination camps, along with several political prisoners, destined to the Mauthausen concentration camp. The realization project of a Memorial of the Shoah in Milan, by the homonymous Foundation - owned by major institutions in Milan and Lombardia, by the Jewish community and associations established to preserve the memory of the events and of the survivors - has...

ITALY - Turin - Officine Grandi Riparazioni “Fare gli italiani. 150 anni di storia nazionale”

Technical service: CWS Srl - Photographer: Mattia Boero for Comiotato Italia 150 The exhibition, curated by Walter Barberis and Giovanni De Luna, held in Turin in the autumn of 2011 and permanent since March 2012, tells the history of the Italian National Unity ‘till today: not a mere succession of events but a story of people. Italians are the protagonists, considered in their differences and described during all those phases that saw them becoming united in a feeling of belonging. These steps are part of a 150 years long path during which “we have become Italians”. To critically tell this century...

SPAIN - Barcelona - Museu de la Mùsica

Spotlight Distributor: Spotlight s.a. - Photographer: Archive of Spotlight Spain In March 2007, the Museu de la Música opened its doors to the public in the Auditori with a brand-new display of its instrument collections and musical documents. The new permanent exhibition gathers nearly five-hundred instruments from various periods and cultures, a collection that is considered one of the most important in Spain. Structured into various fields and with audiovisual materials −music, images and text− the Museu de la Música invites visitors to acquaint themselves with the world of music in a direct...

ITALY - Rome - “A Oriente - Città, uomini, e Dei sulle vie della seta” 2011

The leitmotif of the three great religions that characterized the land courses of the Silk Route from the second century BC to the fourteenth century. A.D takes the visitor along a media path that winds articulated in the evocative atmosphere of the Baths of Diocletian in Rome, exceptionally opened for this occasion by the Special Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage. Through the filters of the look, sounds, voices and gestures, the multimedia mise-en-scene interprets twelve emblematic places, able to tell the complexity and cultural and religious contamination of the Silk Route. The wooden...

THE NETHERLANDS - Amsterdam- Museum Het Rembrandthuis

In 1906, the City of Amsterdam bought the dilapidated building and provided a drastic restoration, completed in 1911 at the occasion of the Rembrandt exhibition, when Queen Wilhelmina opened the museum. On May 1998, a new restoration which included also the luminaries (Spotlight) and the opening of two exhibition galleries, the secretarial department, offices and the library, with the Rembrandt Information Centre. Thanks to this last restoration, completed in 1999, the Rembrandt’s former home is restored to its original condition. Spotlight Distributor:Aukes Theatertechniek - Photographer : Archive...