The artistic project

A grey-purpleblue light during the day and the night darkness well match up to the Medieval alleys and to their pebbly physicality. But with the modern city and its Baroque perspectives light – the light of the sun – becomes the essential matter for letting the architectural appearances emerge: the focuses along which the new city directions orient themselves. But night blurs or deletes everything; only on occasion of great feasts (and at great fire risk) torchlights and lanterns faintly try to pierce the gloom. It’s with the contemporary city - the ville lumière of electricity – that urban space definitively looses night darkness and also today’s “darkest” streets, are, actually, much more enlighted than some centuries ago. With the electrical light social life can go on also at night and modern city centres, where there are the most intense social relationships, furnish with the most important night lighting in the whole city. This lighting increases in intensity and decoration effects in occasion of peculiar feasts. Light, then, has become the necessary matter for building today’s urban space at night and “Notti di luce” wants to underline its presence and role at a time and in places that are particularly meaningful for Bergamo. The time starts with S. Alexander’s Day, the traditional opening day of the homonym and very ancient Fair, whose places, arrived to us after a millennium of transformations, make up today the modern city centre. The centre will host concerts, theatral events, stages and, especially, will dress up with light.
In order to underline again Sentierone’s fundamental axis, its historical headboards of S. Bartolomeo and of the Town Hall, as well as the tangent interior cavity of the ancient Fair, today marked by the prospect of the moden Chamber of Commerce. Walter Barbero architect

Walter Barbero
architect