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Barco celebrates the success of new digital art attraction from Culturespaces

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The Phoenix des Lumières digital art experience uses 100 laser projectors

Barco, the technology company focusing on innovative visualisation solutions, is celebrating a further collaboration with Culturespaces. Their new project is a digital art attraction, Phoenix des Lumières in Dortmund, which utilises over 100 Barco laser projectors.

These two organisations have a long history of working together to create immersive site-specific art installations. Culturespaces launched its des Lumières concept in 2012 and partnered with Barco for its three locations in France.

Carrières des Lumières, Atelier des Lumières [pictured, top], and Bassins des Lumières together welcome over one million visitors each year, using Barco projections to create digitised exhibitions with work from pivotal artists such as Claude Monet, Salvador Dali and Vincent van Gogh.

Recently, the digital art experience company has expanded with new venues in Seoul, New York and Dubai.

New venue welcomes 50,000 visitors

The new Phoenix des Lumières is Culturespaces’ first German location. For this project, Barco was again chosen as the preferred projection partner.

Phoenix des Lumières is located in Dortmund’s Phoenix West steel works and opened in January 2023. The exhibition is designed for the monumental architecture of this industrial site, which features 13-meter-high walls and an immense projection area totalling 5600 square meters. The projection uses around 100 F80 and G62-W11 Barco laser projectors.

This experience focuses on the work of Gustav Klimt, presenting a unique interpretation of his work and his followers through 100 years of Viennese painting. The immersive exhibition features large format images of portraits, landscape and life studies, with vibrant colour and glittering gold – and has received excellent feedback with 50,000 visitors in its first month alone.

Barco and Culturespaces will continue to collaborate on projects throughout 2023 and 2024.

In February, Barco launched the NT series powered by the firm’s Infinipix Gen2 processing. This new LED solution delivers great image performance and high-quality colour and is ideal for LED video walls that require high-impact visuals.

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Rebecca Hardy

Rebecca Hardy has been working in the culture and heritage sector for over 10 years. She studied Fine Art at university and now writes for a broad range of creative organisations including artists, galleries, museums and retailers. When she's not writing, she spends her time getting lost in the woods and making mud pies with her young son.

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