FINLAND: Hungarian artist Peter Kozma brightens up Helsinki buildings into works of art

Record ID: 1477341

  • Title: FINLAND: Hungarian artist Peter Kozma brightens up Helsinki buildings into works of art
  • Date: 2nd March 2008
  • Summary: (NIGHT SHOTS) PROJECTOR LIGHTING UP IMAGE TEAM MEMBER JUMPING OFF PROJECTOR PLATFORM LIGHT INSTALLATION ON SURFACE (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARTIST, PETER KOZMA, STANDING IN BETWEEN THE PROJECTOR AND BUILDING, SAYING: "We have here quite a strong impact of lights on the elevation, so this yellow for example, it gets lightening intensity, that's why I meant a torch because the material starts to light. This is an interesting play these projectors, you can make very large images, you have interesting colours" PEOPLE WALKING PAST LIT-UP BUILDINGS/THROUGH LIGHT PROJECTION, DETAIL OF ART WORK, SNOW FALLING VARIOUS OF LIGHT SHOW PROJECTED ONTO BUILDING VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING PAST LIT-UP BUILDINGS/THROUGH LIGHT PROJECTION PROJECTOR LIGHTING UP SNOWFALL VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING PAST LIT-UP BUILDINGS/THROUGH LIGHT PROJECTION VARIOUS OF LIGHT SHOW PROJECTED ONTO BUILDING HELSINKI AT NIGHT
  • Embargoed: 18th March 2008 11:32
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  • Location: Finland
  • Country: Finland
  • Topics: Art,Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVAO3T53HYAQNJJ2ERNGHC3VNST
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: Residents in Helsinki were treated to some new views of their city on Thursday (February 28) as artist Peter Kozma launched his light-installation project bringing new light onto city buildings.
    The installation artist is an ex-skier who represented Hungary in the Sarajevo Olympics in 1984, but this year he is representing his country in the Finnish capital as a contemporary light artist for Hungarian Cultural Week.
    Kozma and his team are well known for operating giant projectors showing images, covering thousands of square meters of building facades from sunset into the early morning hours. He has already projected onto public buildings in major European cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, Zurich, Vienna and Budapest.
    In the Helsinki project, called Timescan, the team project Bauhaus-style graphic images on to the surrounding buildings from their mobile projection platform over a period of four days.
    Located in the Lasipalatsi in central Helsinki, the images will light up the Museum of Modern Art and an old bus station, among others.
    Kozma said most buildings were interesting but that sometimes they needed some help to make them even more so.

    "My job is to make the elevations colourful, very plastic and this is the concept - the intellectual concept - which has the possibility to show colours and structures and the "wow-effekt", but still to tell a story about the building, about the city and about myself in this city,"
    he said.
    He also said there were many ways the light could play on the building facades.

    "We have here quite a strong impact of lights on the elevation, so this yellow for example gets a lightening intensity, that's why I meant a torch because the material starts to light. This is an interesting play these projectors, you can make very large images, you have interesting colours," he said while preparing his show.
    His light installation in Helsinki is a part of the 28th Hungarian Cultural Week which started on Thursday (February 28) andMarch 15 and is supported by the city of Helsinki, where city leaders said they were eager to show off their city in a new and inspiring way.
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