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Campo Solar Festival lit by Painting with Light

Painting with Light (PWL) was asked by the organizers of the 2019 Campo Solar Festival in Belgium to create site-wide ambience at their location in the corn, wheat and sunflower fields along the Pijpeweg in Damme, near Brugge.

Organised for the first time in 2018, this two-day boutique event was a runaway success. This year, more entertainment areas were added, complete with a full line-up of mainly local bands and DJs on three stages, and most of the action - including a complement of food concessions - was spread across three different fields, which became PWL’s three lighting ‘zones’ for this creative space.

Campo Solar 2019 was project managed for PWL by Peter van den Bosch working closely with PWL’s Jo Segers on the conceptual lighting design. The organizers initially wanted decorative LED festoon lighting along the walkways. The idea evolved into around 1.6 kilometres of this being rigged on a series of poles driven firmly into the ground via a crane with a special attachment. The poles were inclined at different angles.

The sloping pole idea was then extended around all the fields. The poles in the cornfield were alternately angled and those in the wheat field were angled in the same direction. Two hundred of the poles were fitted with Showtec Spectral M800 Q4 LED projectors on top to light the surrounding areas in a variety of colours. These also served a practical health and safety role by lighting the pathways so guests could safely negotiate around the fields.

Elsewhere around the site, the PWL team specified a mix of fixtures to achieve several different lighting treatments in different areas. Some areas required more specialist lighting, so 12 x Chauvet RH1 Beams were dotted around the site providing strategic aerial, beam and spot effects.

Forty Chauvet ColorDash Accents were deployed to highlight the neighbouring environment around the fields. ‘The Barn’ was an open space used as a techno room, so the requirement for lots of beam technology was created using 24 x Prolights Pixiebeam LED moving heads.

Peter van den Bosch and Jo Segers created a special light art installation work in one of the fields utilising four Robe MegaPointes in a tower and a series of mirrors positioned around the outside of the space and lit with the MegaPointes which were centrally located in the designated area.

The story was then told through creating custom patterns and texturing through the lighting combined with the mirror surfaces. People could walk underneath and through the beams. Several StudioDue CityColor LED floods were rigged on scaffolding and other structures to provide general lighting including around the entrance.

Numerous quantities of large clear lightbulbs with funky LED filaments became part of the house lighting in the canopy tents, crated into chandeliers and other formations based on inverting the shape of the tent ceilings. The colour schemes were based on shades of tungsten with cosy warm whites and other hues that mixed with the amber of the crops and the yellow of the sunflowers.

(Photos: Sina Sohn)

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