LDR lights the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Italian luminaire manufacturer LDR has provided, via its Spanish dealer Prolighting, 100 units of its brand new Rima 500 floodlight, in white finish, for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The lighting is being used to highlight two major exhibitions at the museum. The first is titled ‘Paris: Capital of the Arts, 1900-1968’, and traces the major developments in painting and sculpture which took place in Paris throughout the first seven decades of the twentieth century. The second is ‘Pictures of the Surface of the Earth’, a collection of photographs by the German artist and film director Wim Wenders, who began taking photographs back in 1983. From the start, he has brought his unique sensibility to focus on the villages and landscapes of the United States and Havana, the forests and temples of Japan, the coast of Galilee and the endless roads of the deserted Australian outback.

The even distribution of the beam from the Rima 500 makes it ideal for illuminating the paintings and pictures, while the use of four-leaf barndoors allows the beam to frame the objects perfectly. To create the right mood, some of the luminaires are used for ambient lighting. According to the architect, the luminaires were chosen because its "stylish design perfectly fits the museum forms."

The modular design also enables several units to be coupled together to form a compartment batten or 4-compartment square unit, while the improved design of the fixture prevents any light spill. A colour frame and 1.5m mains cable are supplied as standard.

(Lee Baldock)

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