Giant Lampshades Flood the Streets of Québec City with Art

Images Courtesy of Lightemotion. Credit: Patrick Mevel. 

Walking along Québec City’s Cartier Avenue is now a little more like strolling the snow-strewn halls of a fine art gallery decorated by your eccentric aunt. In other words, with the help of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, design firm Lightemotion has stretched the work of painters Alfred Pellan and Fernand Leduc over the drums of 34 giant lampshades on the streets of eastern Canada.

Although the firm’s original objective was to bring “warmth of a neighborhood life” to the chilly winter streets of Québec City, their display is also a most illuminating public gallery of 20th century art. “The choice of the two Québécois painters brings Lightemotion’s concept to its full expression,” they explain, “thanks to the graphic-design elements found in the first artist’s work and Leduc’s signature explorations of light.” Each of the elevated artworks is powered by LED strips and mounted on 5′ tall structures with a breadth of 8′. As a result, the everyday streetlights of Québec City’s Cartier Avenue will be shining with the borrowed brilliance of two local art legends from now through the end of March.

Browse through the rest of Lightemotion’s impressive lighting larks on the firm’s site.

Via Urdesignmag

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