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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, celebrated its 20th Anniversary with a dazzling light show. The show, which was produced by 59 Productions, lasted for four days from the 11th till the 14th of October. The innovative studio used the gleaming surfaces of the Spanish museum as a giant canvas for their projection mapping light show.
Courtesy of 59 Productions, Photography: Justin Sutcliffe.
 
Music, projection, and light joined together in a 20-minute-long production which was displayed on the northern facades. This artistic blend told the museum?s story of how it was inspired, created, and designed.

The light show utilized Catia computer modeling technology which ws developed originally for designing jets. The display started with Gehry?s continuous-line design, then moved to the most important pieces of the museum?s collection. One of the acts, that focused on the façade?s reflectivity and complemented its undulations, was the Tall Tree and The Eye sculpture of Anish Kapoor. Another act was inspired by the flower-covered puppy of Jeff Koons and featured blossoming floral shapes and patterns all across the canvas. The huge spider sculpture ?Maman? of Louise Bourgeois took part in the show as well by spreading a daunting shadow across the museum.
?I think a show like Reflections, which will dramatically transform the iconic building of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao with hundreds of textures, c...