Serbian artists Ivana Jelić and Pavle Petrović have reimagined Van Gogh's famous painting The Starry Night as an LED installation over the canals of Amsterdam, to highlight the issue of light pollution in urban areas.
A series of 1,400 acrylic rods illuminated by small LED lights are used to emulate Van Gogh's impasto brushstrokes. The rods form a large-scale reproduction of a magnified section of the star-filled night sky featured in the renowned artwork.
Image courtesy of Janus van den EijndenLocated on a bridge at the intersection of two canals in Amsterdam, the village buildings and cypress trees found in the original painting are replaced with the Dutch city's own merchant houses and waterways.
Jelić and Petrović used coloured LEDs to imitate the blue and yellow hues of the Starry Night image, arranging them in the swirly formations that are characteristic of the post-impressionist work.
Just like the Van Gogh painting, the installation is set within a rectangular border in order to resemble a framed artwork from a distance.
However, as the artists explain, the transparency of the acrylic rods also allows the installation to blend in with its surroundings. By placing light sources at the end of each of the rods, the light appears differently from various angles.
"By approaching closer, visitors are able to explore each swirl as if they were witnessing the actual Starry Night," said the artists.

The duo designed the installation as ...