Canada - Designer Gil Perron lit the Luc Poirrier Ferrari collection and the Performance Zone at the Montreal International Auto Show, with 232 Chauvet Professional fixtures supplied by LSM.
Valued at over $61m, the Ferrari collection featured some 35 vehicles, dating back to 1962 up to the present, including the Monza SP2, the LaFerrari Aperta, and the Enzo, as well as models like the 296 GTS, SF90 Spider, and F8 Spider. Lighting these was not without its challenges.
"Having cars ranging from shiny canary yellow to satin anthracite black right next to each other required some adjustment in actual physical positions of instruments," said Perron, who credits his programmer Helene St-Pierre with helping him meet this challenge. "Helene showed extreme patience, as I can be a bit obsessive when it comes to focus and colour balances! All in all, this involved 12 hours of focusing – and it was worth every minute."
Perron relied on 88 Maverick Force 3 Profiles to light the Ferraris, spreading the fixtures out across six 120ft trusses. "Obviously, the massive output of these fixture was essential, as was the Maverick's flexibility. We lit the brighter coloured cars with two fixtures, while the darker ones, especially the anthracite carbon ones got three, and in some cases four, lights. I was aiming for 250Fc on each car, which was easily attained and quite largely surpassed. Getting 350Fc was not even a challenge on 35ft throws."
At the Performance Zone, Perron used 144 Colorado Quad Par fixtures to light a collection of specialty vehicles. "This was a huge challenge because this room had no rigging, low ceilings and a requirement for very spotted elements,” he said. "With each car being so colourful, the team did minor adjustments to the white base formula I had created in order to augment the actual car colour. It was a very long process, but the results were impressive.”
