Lucía in the Sky by Ben Busche / Brut Deluxe

The Madrid light proposal by Ben Busche / Brut Deluxe has become a classic of the illumination of the Christmas period of the capital. An intervention that is always surprisingly interesting.

Getting Madrid to become a world reference in Christmas urban lighting has also been thanks to the spectacular images that Imagen Subliminal makes to present this work.

This time it's cats (the nickname of the people of Madrid) who walk the illumination of the most emblematic street, the Gran Vía, of Madrid for almost a kilometer and a half.

Description of project by Ben Busche / Brut Deluxe

The light installation, denominated Lucia in the Sky is a site-specific design by commission of the City of Madrid for Gran Via coinciding with the termination of the refurbishment and partial pedestrianisation of the emblematic road and its inauguration.

The light installation is inspired by the images of the nebulae and galaxies realised by the Hubble telescope and the feelings that immediately associate at its contemplation: the hypnotic astonishment facing the immensity of space, the infinity of stars and possible worlds mixed with the recorded memories of the real contemplation of the milky way, also present but steadily further away and apparently unreal due to the lack of darkness of the night sky in more urbanised society each day.

Gran Via is orientated east – west and we cover the sky with an artificial nebula, an imaginary milky way, more brilliant, colourful and psychedelic. Lucia is a kitten living on Gran Via and, showing up only casually at determined spots, seems to be trying to catch one of the blinking stars.

La installation covers 1300m of Gran Via and is realised with bulbs with a total of 360 414 LEDs summing to an installed power of 31kW.

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Ben Busche / Brut Deluxe

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Philip Baumann, Elisa Luda

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City Council Madrid

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Ximenez SA

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Gran Via, 1300m length

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2018

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Photography video

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Miguel de Guzmán / Rocío Romero www.imagensubliminal.com

Ben Busche

Brut Deluxe is an architecture and design studio headed by Ben Busche (Munich 1968). Founded in 2004, Brut Deluxe operates from two platforms in Madrid and Munich.

Brut Deluxe is focused on the investigation and creation of space and its atmospheric qualities. The projects oscillate between different scales of urban intervention: from ephemeral artistic installations to industrial design, construction design and urbanism.

According to project objectives, a multidisciplinary team involving architects, artists, designers and engineers are engaged in the design process. Brut Deluxe thrives on the international academic education and provenance of its team members.

Brut Deluxe is oriented towards the social, economic and aesthetic qualities of the projects and combines both scientific strategies and artistic approximations in the creative process.

Miguel de Guzmán

Miguel de Guzmán born in Rio de Janeiro in 1972. He is an architect (ETSAM. 1998) and also architectural photographer. He has been professor in the Graphic Ideation Department at CEU Architecture School and the Photography Department of Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid. Since 2008 Imagen Subliminal is the broadcast platform through which he shows his work as photographer and videographer. As an Architect, he has been awarded with the Dionisio Hernadez Gil Prize for the Diocesan Priest House in Plasencia (work done together with Andres Jaque and Enrique Krahe), and was selected for the 2005 Spanish Architecture Bienal. As a Photographer he has been finalist in ABC Journal Art Awards 2000, El Mundo Photography awards 2001. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions (Circuitos de Arte Joven, Galeria Vírgenes, Photo España…). The book "Miguel de Guzmán Architectural Photography" contains a selection of photographs taken between the years 2003 and 2013, and which give example of a new way in the making of architectural photography.

Rocío Romero Rivas

Rocío Romero Rivas. (Granada, 1984) Architect and photographer specialized in architecture photography. In 2013 he completed his studies in Audiovisual Image and Communication and became part of the Subliminal Image together with Miguel de Guzmán.

Within Subliminal Image has developed all areas in the making, realization and editing of architectural photography as in the innovative terrain of architectural video. Some of his works have been exhibited in architecture film festivals such as the FICARQ International Film Festival, the Ponferrada International Film Festival, the Architecture & Design Film Festival of Los Angeles or the exhibition Spanish Architecture Stages in Tokyo.

In the field of Architecture he has collaborated in some competitions such as Europan Europe, the International Biennial of Architecture of Venice obtaining an award from the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2016: Unfinished or the Oslo Architecture Triennial 2016 with honorable mentions for his work and research with your team.

In the summer of 2015 she was tutor of one of the workshops organized by the Architectural Association AA Summer School.

In a more personal setting, his photographs seek a way of expressing sensations, feelings and concerns, which in one way or another we all carry inside.

Published on: December 19, 2018

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