Kari Kola Drenches Connemara Mountains In GLP Color For Galway 2020
Wednesday May 6, 2020
To celebrate Galway’s status as European Capital of Culture, Finnish light artist Kari Kola was commissioned to turn the beautiful Connemara Mountains emerald green and sapphire blue. The result—a massive artwork called Savage Beauty, with Lough Na Fuaiche in the foreground—owed its success to around 900 lighting fixtures, many from the GLP catalog. With the illuminated area spanning 500 hectares (measuring around 6.5km wide and 700m high), this vast canvas is believed to be the biggest light art project ever created. Kari Kola had originally been approached by Galway 2020’s creative director, Helen Marriage, back in February 2019. The artist…
