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FESTIVALS OF LIGHT / FETES DES LUMIERE, LYON, FRANCE
Le Prince des Lumières / Damien Fontaine © Muriel Chaulet
Huge numbers congregated in the Place des Terreaux for Damien Fontaine’s story of the Prince of Light projected onto the building façades.
PROJECTING CONFIDENCE
Paul James found plenty of examples of projection and video mapping in Lyon for their annual festival. However, there were plenty of hidden gems if you knew where to look.
During four magical nights in December, over 800,000 inhabitants of, and visitors to, Lyon gathered in the city centre to take in the atmosphere and see some impressive lighting, projection and video installations. Highlights included the amazing large for- mat projection / video mapping epic of the ‘Prince des Lumières’ by Damien Fontaine in the central hub of Terreaux square, which won the The Trophée des Lumières award for best installation. The Récylum Trophy for Sustainable Lighting went to ‘Paradise Lost’ by Jean- Charles de Castelbajac / Blachère Illumination in the courtyard of the Hotel de Ville. ‘Pierrot le feu’ set Bellecour square ablaze with videos, projections and pyrotechnics directed by Joseph Couturier. Shown for the first time, the Lyon fresco (‘Mur des Lyonnais’) was a success with ‘Dessine-moi
des lumières’ created with the collaboration of the Emile Cohl School, experts of mural painting Cité Creation, and visual artists Theoriz Crew.
The lighting of the Hôtel-Dieu, Lyon’s historical hospital, was a big hit with nearly 105,000 spectators working their way through the ‘Caresses Climatiques’, a jungle of creepers created by Alain Benini. Visitors were encouraged to go off the beaten track to discover some of the more insteresting installations. Each year, the Lyon festival leaves behind a permanent in- stallation as a legacy of the event. This edi- tion saw the the new Croix-Rousse Tunnel, which is designed for non-motorised traffic only, lit permanently using neon. An interior lighting scheme now accompanies cyclists and pedestrians over the 1.8-kilometre-long crossing all year long, both day and night.
The creation offers a novel and exceptional experience to a larger audience. Opened to the public in time for the festival, the installation aims to encourage use of the tunnel by city residents and make the crossing an entertaining experience to be repeated with renewed pleasure. Between the Croix-Rousse tunnel and the Rhône river banks, 160,000 visitors redis- covered the Tête d’or park, ravished by the sweet Zen atmosphere of the ‘Chinese Corner’ created by Li LI. Up Croix-Rousse hill on the Gros Caillou es- planade, a colourful maze made by Jérôme Toq’r, was a major hit. On the other bank of the Rhône, 1,000 visitors a night visited the Hospital Saint-Luc Saint-Joseph terraces to listen to ‘Le Coeur à l’ouvrage’ created by Annick Picchio.
www.fetedeslumieres.lyon.fr
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