Thyssen Museum Uses Canon Projectors to Pay Tribute to Designer Balenciaga

In the exhibition 'Balenciaga and Spanish Painting' two LX-MU800Z video projectors will be installed to perform a mapping that simulates, next to the dresses, The paintings of great artists of Spanish painting.

canon has provided two LX video projectors – MU800Z, capable of projecting with a luminosity of 8.000 Lumens, to the Thyssen Bornemisza National Museum for the exhibition Balenciaga and Spanish Painting. With these equipment, a mapping has been carried out that simulates, next to the dresses, The paintings of great artists of Spanish painting.

The exhibition, which shall be open to the public of the 18 from June to 22 September, seeks to pay tribute to haute couture designer Cristóbal Balenciaga.

"The project has an exclusive element at the international level because it is the first time that an exhibition, in which art and fashion are linked, You will have all your references present in one place. The dresses, who have come from different parts of the world, will be shown alongside works by the best artists of the Spanish Painting Schools", says Eloy Martínez de la Pera, Curator of the exhibition.

The photographer of the exhibition catalogue was Jon Cazenave." We focus on the origins of Cristóbal Balenciaga. We wanted a scenography where dresses could inhabit the space and then we needed a solution to link those dresses with the work of great masters of Spanish painting and, That's where, where came the possibility of working with Canon. We designed a model that would make a nod to the painting and that would give us the possibility of painting those canvases that are seen in the background with light".

The use of Canon LX-MU800Z projectors has managed to provide a light power that balances with flashes, which makes optimal results achieved using two types of lights. The objective was to develop a photographic project at the height of the great master of sewing Balenciaga.

The new media artist of the exhibition, Jaime de Los Ríos, highlights the importance of calibration since "to photograph more than 90 Luxury suits can't be spent much time calibrating or moving projectors. The LX-MU800Z projectors have enabled us to have an excellent rectification and calibration process, manageable and dynamic".

Xeed 4K600Z for Art & Fashion Film

On the other hand, Canon will also provide the Xeed 4K600Z projector to show the audiovisual piece Article & Fashion Film that collects shots of the making-of and that is being recorded throughout the production process of the exhibition.

It will be exhibited in the last room of the exhibition of the Thyssen Museum. "It is a very 'arty' audiovisual piece that collects shots of all the 'making-off', with photo shoots included", says Eloy Martinez.

The exhibition links the creation of Cristóbal Balenciaga with the tradition of Spanish painting between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries.

It has a careful selection of paintings from private collections, as the Casa de Alba Foundation, and national, such as the Prado Museum or the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum; and with a set of valuable pieces of clothing from the Balenciaga Museum in Guetaria, the Costume Museum of Madrid and the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, as well as national and international private collections, many of them never before exposed.

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