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Lighting design: Marco Miglioli (Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio)
Client: Autonomous Province of Trento, Buonconsiglio Castle. Exhibition design: Luca Rolla e Alberto Bertini. Curatorship: Laura Dal Prà, Marina Carmignani and Paolo Pieri. Multimedia installation: Stefano Benedetti Computer Graphics. Photographs: Andrea Ceriani.
BUONCONSIGLIO CASTLE | TRENTO | ITALY
LIT LIGHTING DESIGN AWARDS 2022
Winner
For the first time, an exhibition recounts the evolution of European taste and artisanal and tailoring techniques that developed during the century that led from the Gothic style to the Renaissance one.
Hall of the “Torrione da basso”. Clothing on pedestals, paintings on panel and cylindrical display case
The exhibition’s lighting design was planned to bring out, through a delicate play of light and shadow, the texture and colors of the textile and pictorial works on display.
The precious works on display – copes, chasubles, rare dalmatics with colorful silk embroidery, precious Florentine and Venetian fabrics with multiple decorations or simple fragments and remnants of them – are accompanied by paintings on canvas or drawings on paper that depict moments of fifteenth and sixteenth century life whose protagonists are fabrics.The project includes three main lighting systems: the first one is designed for textile works displayed on vertical supports, the second one is designed for fabrics placed, for preservative reasons, on horizontal ledges and finally the third one is dedicated to the paintings.
Hall of the “Torrione da basso”
Hall “Albertiana / dei Papi”
Since works are mostly classified as highly sensitive to optical radiation of the light spectrum, the project was developed to safeguard the state of preservation of the fragile finds on display, without however losing the effects created by the different light balances that guide the visitor along the museum route.
Through the light we wanted to enhance the golds of the fabrics and those of the backgrounds of the painted panels, so that the visitor’s eye was attracted by the splendor of their reflections. For the theology of the time, in fact, the brightness of gold represented the divine light that transfigures and envelops everything, dispelling the darkness of sin.
Hall of the “Torrione da basso”
Hall of the “Figure”
The shape of the space and the position of the works required a design of particular structures that could act both as a support for the lighting fixtures, intended for illuminating the works on display, and as a seat for a system intended to illuminate the frescoed vaults which helps to illuminate the paths of the visit thanks to the light they reflect.