Gaspare Di Caro Delights Santiago de Cuba with his Luminography

Santiago de Cuba.-Franco Italian artist  Gaspare Di Caro has been seducing this city since he started to light the atrium of the Santa Basílica Metropolitana Iglesia Catedral in early February.

The artist, who has ben also called the artisan of light, develops luminography technique, and in his first time in this city, he backed up with his beams the exhibit La Biblia, el camino de Dios en el camino del hombre, in an unusual show that amazes and pleases.

The most recent foray of Di Caro was the door of the former council, patrimonial building located in front of the Céspedes park, now the seat of the municipal government where was announced the triumph of Revolution on January 1 of 1959.

Thanks to the work of the also known as The painter of light are now illuminated the faces of legendary personalities of the Cuban revolutionary process, main figures of that transcendental event.    

Di Caro, known in the whole world for the illumination of the Cristo Redentor, in Río de Janeiro, highlighted his links with Cuba, where he created the light atmosphere necessary at the Havana Cathedral soon after the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.

The European creator, established in Brazil, evoked the origins of these techniques among the Italian Renaissance artists and highlighted the virtues of those variants of moderate energetic consumption and optimum yield, which mix Physics and other disciplines knowledge with the most pure art.  

He praised the coordination established with City Conservator Office and the steps followed to offer courses of Light Painting and to develop lights decoration in other buildings of the city.   

The artist highlighted the Santiago de Cuba people intellectual qualities to apprehend those novelties and got fascinated for the idiosyncrasy of the second Cuban city.

He stated that an important part of his work is related to religious questions, although he has approached different ones and his works appear in several European cities, particularly in Spain.

Source: PL