(Mar. 8) – De Cagna is an Italian family business working on light displays, Founded in 1930, and thanks to a three generations experience, the company managed to export a lot of light projects . As happened a few weeks ago, at the Belgium’s Festival of Lights, in Ghent – a yearly event that draws hundreds of thousands of people from abroad during the end of January – where De Cagna has proposed “Luminarie”: a giant colonnade made of wood and hundreds of thousands of colored lights, with arches reminding one of Romanesque and Renaissance architecture. The entrance area was an imposing 28 meters high, and the audience walked into a fairy tale gallery, surrounded by light and color. From tomorrow until March 19, De Cagna will participate for the third consecutive year the “Falla-Sueca – Literato Azorin”, a Spanish festivity in Valencia. Next steps will be Jerusalem, for the “Festival of Light” and , in fall, Kobe in Japan. “Light is the subject of our company – so says the company website -, not only the real creative medium being able to emphasize and highlight buildings’ geometry and art forms, but also the active subject of an expressive language variously modulated and mouldable. Light is a meaningful sign conveying a world of emotions, feelings, thoughts and vibrations. Light is a great mean expressing spatial and temporal suggestions, actions and moods. Light designs and creates spaces, atmospheres and depths, structuring itself as a constructing element of places, times and relations. Our intent – the conclude – is analysing the relation between light and architecture, light and art, each helping the other to be revealed. Our company is capable of doing this not only in a functional, but also in a poetical way thanks to the aid competent artists (Roc/Peg)
