This Friday begins the last presentation weekend of a lighting series on Havana Cathedral. This visual show inspired by the Holy Scriptures, will be projected until Sunday together with sacred music, which involves the Cathedral Square with an exquisite celestial aura.
Every weekend, from January 12, the Baroque facade of Havana’s main Catholic institution exhibits this show included in the exhibition ¨The Bible: God’s way in the way of man.¨
Gaspare Di Caro, Italian-French artist (based in Brazil), is the protagonist of these very refined projections, which according to him are erected on a lighting show, similar to video mapping, but using artistically worked snapshots, as through the use of the obscure camera and four projectors the ecclesiastical building is illuminated with pieces related to the story perpetuated in the holy scriptures.
This sample runs until Sunday , and comes under the auspices of Havana’s Archdiocese, the Biblical Commission of the Cuban Council of Churches, The American Bible Society, Verbum Domini, the Museum of the Bible and The Office of the Historian of the city.
This is the second time that Di Caro arrived in Havana, as he has already done similar works at the Corcovado Christ Statue in Brazil, or the Fontana Di Trevi and the Saint Pietro Cathedral in Italy. In this regard, he stressed that his return to the Cuban capital, where he already conducted similar tasks during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, is due to high architectural value of Havana’s Baroque Cathedral habanera, which differs from similar buildings in the rest of world.
The artist said that the projections are held from 8: 00 pm to 12: 00 am, and are enlivened with sacred music, which allows higher emotions to the public attending the show, which will be presented for the last time this weekend with projections of two different images each weekend, because according to the artist, he did not want the images to be the main attractions, but the building itself.
The main objective of this exhibition, he added, is a tribute to those who in one way or another contributed in making the Havana Cathedral, or in its conservation today.
For his luminography, Gaspare Di Caro uses the obscure camera, as the great masters of the Renaissance, Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci did, and also uses a modernized magic lantern in low consumption projector, which can also perform buildings lighting permanently.
