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Arte & Culto | Exhibitions and museums
Exhibition devised and produced
by Aboca in collaboration with the
Municipality of Florence and MUS.E
Lighting project: Fulvio Baldeschi
Photo: © Lungimirante | Visual studio
Products:
bottom photo - Clivo
right photo - Navata Pound
Project study:
Leonardo’s Botany
In 2019, for the 500th anniversary of
Leonardo da Vinci’s death, Aboca –
in collaboration with the Municipality
of Florence and Association
MUS.E. – designed and produced a
temporary exhibition that illustrates
and explores Leonardo’s botanical
discoveries through his original
drawings, multimedia installations,
reproductions and the symbolic
installation of a large dodecahedron.
This green invasion in the evocative
spaces of the Monumental Complex
of Santa Maria Novella, in the
Dormitory and the Chiostro Grande,
was curated by the architecture
studio Guicciardini & Magni in
collaboration with lighting designer
Fulvio Baldeschi. The lighting
concept is twofold: lively and
dynamic ambient lighting and static
spotlighting with beams to highlight
the exhibits. In order to recreate
the contrasts of a living natural
environment, a series of Navata
projectors and strips, controlled via
DALI, work together to create an
interplay of lightness and darkness
with varying intensities. The cyclical
fluctuation of lighting intensities
makes it possible to obtain waves of
light, for an effect that evokes
the vibrancy of the forest. Small
projectors have been positioned
on the vases around the perimeter
of the exhibition and inside the
displays; wall-mounted linear Xenia
luminaires and Periskop projectors
also feature in the project. At the
end of the route, the dodecahedron
is dramatically illuminated by LED
strips built into the structure and
facing inwards.
