L&L Luce&Light is lighting the sculpture park in Venice’s Giardini della Marinaressa during the Biennale Arte

The quintessential duo of light and art plays a central role during the Biennale Arte 2024 – from 20 April to 24 November 2024, in the extraordinary setting of the Giardini della Marinaressa, L&L Luce&Light is making its own contribution to the Personal Structures group art exhibition organized by the European Cultural Centre (ECC) Italy.

Beyond Boundaries is the guiding title for this seventh edition of Personal Structures, organized across the ECC’s three venues in Venice: Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora and the Giardini della Marinaressa. The group exhibition brings together more than 200 artists and multidisciplinary creatives from 51 different countries and offers visitors a rich tapestry of artistic narratives. It is presented as a journey that crosses multiple geographical, political, religious and cultural boundaries. While some physical and conceptual limits can mean comfort and safety, the exhibition aims to shift these constraints, to investigate what is beyond in order to see it from a different point of view. It encourages dialogue and exchange between cultures, in the space that is Venice. The city is itself driven by art and history, an open-air theatre that offers ever-changing backdrops as its waters reflect the equally changing light of day and night.

And, when the sun sets and darkness arrives, the light from L&L Luce&Light’s new Reiko projectors lends fresh meaning to the sculptures on show, as does the dialogue between the materials and the Venetian landscape, an all-pervading heritage of romantic beauty. Situated between the two main venues of the Biennale Arte, the Arsenale and the Giardini, the Giardini della Marinaressa are located in the Castello district, along the Riva dei Sette Martiri, separated by a building known as the “Marinaressa Veneziana”. These public gardens were built in the 1930s, at the same time as the Riva dei Sette Martiri. They have recently been restored and brought back to life after years of neglect.

During the Biennale, the newly enlivened Levante section of the gardens is transformed into a green space adorned with sculptures, highlighted by the carefully directed light of the Reiko projectors. There are 20 artworks, by artists from all over the world, this open-air exhibition can be admired as you stroll along the avenue that winds through the park, around its centuries-old maritime pines. Each of the works on display is picked out by the light from Reiko 2.0 and 3.0, projectors. Fitted with a variety of optics, the fixtures were chosen not least because of their high performance and ability to withstand weather and environmental conditions with a high risk of corrosion, such as this salty lagoon setting. The jasper green and cor-ten finishes, the range of optics and the installation accessories, such as the fastener straps for trees and stakes for ground installation, make the fixtures particularly suited to landscape lighting, as they can blend perfectly with the natural surroundings.

To complete the project and light the avenue from above, the Ginko 3.0 projector was selected with its shadow-effect filter that recreates on the ground the dappled effect of light shining through foliage. This final touch allows you to stroll freely through the garden and, thanks to the bewitching accent lighting, enjoy the dialogue between the sculptures and the lagoon, between the abstract forms on display and the constantly changing Venetian landscape, reflected in the shimmering waters that surround it.

Photos: Alessio Tamborini

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