As part of the cultural festivities, the city of Madrid instigated a celebration of its architecture through a temporary City Beautification project. The project consisted of lighting a number of culturally important buildings and monuments including the Puerta de Alcalá, the fountain in the Plaza de Cibeles, monuments to Neptune and Apollo, the Correos building (Post Office) and Museo Nacional Del Prado.
Cinelux, Ecler, Martin - The experienced team of entertainment and architectural lighting professionals at company Cinelux SA was behind the remarkable success. Martin's Spanish distributor Ecler also played a key role in what has been called one of the biggest temporary lighting installations in the world. The Cinelux technical team, which included top domestic and international experts, successfully incorporated the latest technology from leading brands in entertainment lighting.
Martin MAC 2000s with dichroic litho gobos and MAC 600 moving heads constituted the basic lighting element with over 600 MAC moving head fixtures used altogether. The response among citizens of the capital to the outstanding lighting overwhelmed the Madrid City Council, so much in fact that in order to avoid spontaneous gatherings of spectators anxious to see the spectacle, it was suggested on the eve of the event that the lighting display be called off, thus avoiding foreseeable traffic and security problems.
Other lighting facts of the Madrid illumination project: - 1,450 washlight and profile spot moving heads - 500,000W of high power Space Cannon and Syncrolite projectors - High power Xenon lamp projection - six 12 and 18 Kw HMI projectors - 300 and 20,000 W incandescent projectors - Chromatic effects and texture projection from dichroic litho gobos - 18 computerized systems for lighting control - Approximately 20,000m of DMX control cable.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
