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LUMIERE - The UK’s largest light festival returns to Durham
25th September 2011
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The UK’s largest light festival returns to blaze a trailthrough Durham this winter with 30+ installations including works by Tracey Emin and David Batchelor.
LUMIERE 2011 is the world-class biennial festival that celebrates artists working with light in all its forms. Over four nights, 17-20 November2011, Durham residents and visitors will rediscover a city transformed into amagical nocturnal landscape.
LUMIERE is the largest light festival in the UK focusing on works created by artists bringing together a beguiling mix of international, national and local artists and designers, all using the medium of light to create artworks to delight, surprise, and stop people in theirtracks.
Over 30 artworks will be situated all over the city, and the Festival will include a programme of talks, lectures and lighting demonstrations. Participating artists include Cedric Le Bourgne, Tracey Emin and David Batchelor. French artist Le Bourgne creates eerily-lit sculptures in humanform that will be seated on top of buildings and hang suspended in the air as ifin flight.
The Festival will open with a lantern parade through the streets of the medieval city and back by popular demand will be Ross Ashton’s Crown of Light, originally commissioned as the centrepiece for LUMIERE 2009. The piece, a huge projection that transformed the entire 120m span of Durham Cathedral into a vast animated screen, brings together the illuminated manuscripts of the Lindisfarne Gospels with ancient stained glass and artifacts from inside theCathedral itself. The 12-minute animation is accompanied by a soundinstallation by Robert Ziegler and John Del’ Nero.
The full programme will be announced nearer thetime, and will include some breathtaking large- scale works. Artichoke has been commissioned to deliver the festival by Durham County Council, with funds from Arts Council England!
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