MOSCOW,
Russia—Martin by HARMAN fixtures illuminated the 5th International
Circle of Light festival in Moscow for nine days. Several architectural
landmarks of the capital city were used in a variety of multimedia and lighting
installations aimed at transforming urban spaces into canvases for innovative works
of art. Russian company LBL developed the concept of the festival, and the team
collaborated with designers from gst.moscow to deploy a range of modern
lighting solutions, including Martin fixtures, in order to implement their
creative ideas.
Lighting designer
Alexey Zhuravlev was tasked with managing the Circle of Light festival projects.
He worked with the gst.moscow team to create a host of unique scenes for an
event that drew 7.5 million visitors in 2015.
Martin fixtures were
used at a variety of locations and events, including an ice show featuring
Olympic Champion Tatiana Navka and various halls at VDNKh (Vystavka Dostizheniy
Narodnogo Khozyaystva), a general purpose tradeshow and amusement park in
Moscow. The VDNKh is one of the most notable attractions in Moscow—it occupies
more than 2,000,000 square meters and includes pavilions, fountains, a space
museum and a Buran (spacecraft).
Zhuravlev and Sophia
Grishutina, Head of Euroshow Moscow’s Light and Rigging Department, overcame a
significant challenge by converting some of the more ordinary-looking halls at
VDNKh (No. 11 through No. 15) into truly eye-catching festival decorations.
The lighting
designer decided to highlight every line of the grid structure of Hall No. 11 with
Martin’s MAC 101 fixtures. The compact size of the MAC 101 made them the perfect
fit for the installation. Technicians did not have any mounting issues and were
able to blend the fixtures into the background during the show.
“We created a unique geometric screen that completely changed the
perception of the hall,” said Zhuravlev. “When we directed the light from the MAC 101s
along the hall, the audience could see the entire structure, which had a really
unique shape. If the beams were directed to the right side, oblique lines
created a wonderful motion effect.”
The design of the Hall
No. 12 facade included a huge trapezium. The lighting designers decided to use
LEDs to create a full screen that would serve as a striking and inviting
installation. In addition, MAC 101s were placed at the bottom of the building
to achieve an ambient lighting effect on the large screen.
“These fixtures supported and expanded the top
segment of the screen in a really visual way,” said Roman Vakulyuk, a
member of the gst.moscow lighting team, who worked on this installation. “For Hall No. 12, the possibility of
changing a color mode in MAC 101 was really useful. I worked in the raw mode to
get warm and attractive white or soft red colors that were the best choice for
illuminating this unique architecture.”
Although the average designer might see the
stark, plain white walls in Hall No. 13 as a challenge, Zhuravlev took
advantage of the blank canvas. For this hall, Zhuravlev proposed a mix of
high-powered LED fixtures with rotating lenses and four Martin MAC Quantum
Washes were among them.
“Usually, when we’re lighting empty walls, we use gobos and patterns,”
said Zhuravlev. “But, in this case, we decided to use the
effects from the rotating lenses of two different fixtures. They created a psychedelic
feel with truly spectacular looks. It was an experiment I’ve long wanted to try.
The result was very bright, extraordinarily stimulating and highly unusual.”
The
annual festival program also includes a VJ competition that is often difficult
for audience members to find as the “Space” hall it is hosted in is obscured by
trees and other installations. The problem was solved this year, however, by
RUSH MH 3 Beams that drew attention to and lit the alley leading to the hall.
Those fixtures were also deployed along with powerful MAC Quantum Washes to
dramatically light the surrounding aircraft and rockets that acted as
setpieces.
Zhuravlev credited the Martin fixtures with helping to bring this
multifaceted production together in a way that streamlined a complex network of
projects and kept hardware issues to a minimum.
“This was definitely a tricky project,” Zhuravlev said. “We had 11 lighting
designers working on all different projects, which required a high level of
coordination.”
Creative Concept:
LBL Company (http://www.lbl.ru/)
Integrator:
gst.moscow team headed by Alexey Zhuravlev
Equipment supplier
and technical partner: Euroshow Moscow (www.euroshow-msk.ru)
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