Artist uses ETC Selador to make his paintings ‘pop’

Lighting director Franck Evin has used 40 ETC Selador® Desire® D22 luminaires in a London art gallery to make the colors in the artwork 'pop.' "Using ETC Selador LED is a radical way to fix the lights. It looks fantastic!" he says.

The challenge Evin faced was that the painter, Berlin-based Jonas Burgert, likes to paint in big, bold colors. To make the colors really stand out, he needed something that would generate bright and vibrant but well-balanced light, without the heat that would typically be generated by traditional light sources.

After a number of tests with different fixtures, he decided on Desire D22 Lustr+ arrays, which produces a wide range of colors, from deeply saturated hues, to subtle pastels and whites. Setup was made easy by the fact that the luminaires can be programmed at the touch of a button on the back of each lamp.

Evin points out that with traditional LED fixtures, it would be difficult to achieve a balanced white. "Jonas is a specialist in mixing colors," says Evin, "making them appear very dreamy. He is working with a new technique, with several different layers; that's why they look so good with these lamps. He loves them, because it's the first time you can really see the colors. It's a different way to show the paintings."

"These fixtures are a great investment for the gallery," continues Evin. "We did a test with the Selador D22s and traditional Source Four fixtures. But the D22s were smaller and lighter, and the light they produced was ideal for our needs."

Jonas Burgert's exhibition, Stück Hirn Blind , is on at London's Blain Southern gallery in Hanover Square until 22 November.

A video showing the installation of the Desire D22 luminaires and the opening of the exhibition is available on ETC's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGxQkMjVDUY .