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Robe BMFLs for Ghent Floralien

Belgian LD Thomas Boets was asked to light four sites across the city of Ghent for their 2016 Floralien (Flower Show), a quadrennial 10 day exhibition and extravaganza of floral and plant artistry and life organised by The Ghent Royal Society of Agriculture and Botany. He chose Robe BMFL Spots and LEDWash 600s among other lights to assist the process at two of the main sites - Sint-Pietersplein ‘past and future’ and Citadelpark ‘a party for all the senses’.

‘Delirious With Desire’, a giant chandelier created by Belgian florist, Tomas De Bruyne working with Hitomi Gilliam and Natalia Zhizko, was on display in the Baroque St Peter’s Church in central Ghent. ‘Delirious with Desire’ was the centrepiece of the whole expo and was installed beneath the main dome of the church just inside the main entrance.

The enormous piece was rigged on a 6 metre diameter circular truss, weighed 3.5 tonnes and also included several strings of crystals and some big clear E27 bulbs in its midst. It was suspended at a height of 17 metres from three trusses that had to be chemically fixed into the roof 30 metres above. The main floral chandelier was flanked by four 8 metre high floral ‘tapestries’ each hung 3 metres off the floor.

The four BMFL Spots were positioned on four 4 metre high towers on the floor directly below, shooting up at the sculpture from four corner positions and through it into the roof. Thomas Boets used some gobo projections and gentle animations in the six different lighting looks.

The 12 LEDWash 600s were around the base of the church’s structural pillars on the floor also pointing upwards, skimming all five floral pieces. The combination of these two fixtures created contrasting and complimentary shadows.

The different coloured and textured looks were composed and then programmed onto a GrandMA onPC based console which cycled through with a series of graceful fades. The controller also auto-started and stopped at the beginning and end of the 10 days duration of the expo. The technical supplier for this was L&L Stage Services.

In the Citadelpark area (the original Ghent Expo site) Boets’ brief was to create three distinctive atmospheres with the lighting related to remembering the First World War which decimated the region of Flanders over 100 years ago. Boets used 24 x LEDWash 600s on the first section of a large display in the Pedro de Ganje Expo building that recreated a WW1 battlefield complete with dark foreboding atmosphere. LEDWashes provided a dark blue glow that contrasted with break up gobos in profiles focussed over all the trees and the wall area around it. A water haze created using magic mist machines added additional mystery to the experience.

Thomas Boets worked with landscape designers Olivier Descamps and Christian Vermander from Buro voor Vrije Ruimte on this area and Charlotte Debusschere/Rik Jacques from Piece Montée. The special soundtrack was composed by Philip Ryckman from Obscurewavemusic, contractor André G built it and the technical supplier was again L&L stage services.

Boets used Robe CityFlex 48s to light the wall behind a large flower sculpture also in the expo centre by Laura Dowling, florist for the White House, and the other two areas he lit were the Floralien Hall in the old Ghent expo centre and Plateau 6 which was an outdoor space.

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