This year, Brut Deluxe's proposal, "Eternal Sunrise", once again plays with geometric compositions that create a visual effect where the different images are perceived as a single picture, thanks to perspective. The vanishing points of the images coincide with those of the street.
The installation conveys a sense of dynamism, despite having static lighting, thanks to the unique perspectives and views it generates for each viewer, depending on their position on the street.
"Eternal Sunrise" Light Installation in Goya by Ben Busche / Brut Deluxe. Photograph by ImagenSubliminal.
Project description by Ben Busche / Brut Deluxe
"Eternal Sunrise" is a site-specific design commissioned by Madrid City Council for Calle Goya, in the heart of Madrid's Salamanca district.
The design is a play on geometry and perspective. The sky depicts a sunrise in warm orange tones. Although the 25 images are identical and repeated, the whole works in perspective as a single 1,000-metre-long painting. To achieve this effect, the vanishing point of the lines in the images had to be designed and installed at a specific height to coincide with reality and create the illusion of a continuous drawing. And although the lighting is static, the installation develops its own dynamism and changes radically depending on the position and perspective of the viewer on the street.
The installation consists of 25 motifs/images, each measuring 2.40 m x 10 m, which illuminate 1,000 metre of Calle Goya. A total of 227,600 LEDs have been installed in all the motifs. The energy consumption of the entire installation is only 4 kW/h.
