Art Lighting Designers UK @ The Negotiating Borders Exhibition - Lighting Art Perfectly

The Negotiating Borders art exhibition is based on the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) in South Korea and its border area with North Korea. Since its establishment in 1953, the DMZ has been one of the world's most heavily militarised areas.

DMZ Project is an ongoing contemporary art project conducted on the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between South and North Korea. Artists present recent works in the exhibition which are confronting the sensitivities, perceptions and realities of a divided Korean peninsula.

This was the tenth exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre that our art lighting designers in the UK have assisted with. This included; exhibition layout, light installation and focusing of light fittings.

For our last exhibition “The Moons Tricks” our art lighting designers had introduced a low-cost wall wash lighting design solution to the galleries. This lighting utilised the existing electrical circuit track to support and connect (very cool white) 6000k LED light battens. This provided a quick, flexible, plus easily removable even spread wall wash lighting solution, for contemporary art.

However, this approach isn’t always liked by artists and visitors for some contemporary art installations. This is due to the light becoming repetitive, lacking in drama or emphasis that is provided by the use of individual spotlighting. With this approach, every painting or piece of art can be given lighting that the artist envisages, without compromise, lighting art perfectly.

Therefore the LED light battens were removed for the Negotiating Borders Exhibition and more traditional art lighting was provided by our art lighting designer.

This consisted of a range of individual spotlights equipped with various temperatures of lamps that could emphasise the artworks. For example; gold embroidery threads weaved into two of the works were given a warmer white light (2700K) whilst other works had 4000K.

The Korean Culture Centre’s exhibition budgets are limited, so the light fixtures and controls are fairly basic. However, with an art lighting designer that is passionate, coupled with a range of quality lamps, filters and some ingenuity, it is possible to achieve a very high standard of art lighting.

A good example of this was when one of the artists wanted the light to only frame her art pieces; of course, this isn’t possible without a framing projector or the more basic barn door approach. Neither of these was available so our art lighting designer made his own version, from what was available in the storeroom.

The artists and curators were delighted with our various lighting solutions and the attention detail to light art perfectly.

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