We travel back in time to for this story, before the pandemic, and to the magical environs of Ljubljana Castle — which features several cool, charismatic converted event spaces elegantly blending historic and nouveaux industrial chic …. The Castle invested in 16 new Robe LEDBeam moving light fixtures, which assisted in lighting a major exhibition of theatrical costumes by famous Slovenian designer, Alan Hranitelj.
Commissioned to light the exhibition was LD Andrej Hajdinjak whose own impressive CV includes working extensively with the National Theatre and various high-profile opera, theatre and ballet companies both in Slovenia and internationally. For practicality and safety, the fixtures were rigged in the roof spaces of the two expo halls. The theatre section in particular was deliberately very dark and in keeping with the environment for which the costumes were designed.
Creating a theatrical ambience was a key to presenting this show elucidated Andrej, who wanted to add drama, magic and vibrance to the costumes so they came alive just as if they were onstage and being worn by actors. He immediately saw the 16 x LEDBeam s on the list and thought that — overall — they would need more of these or similar lights to cover all of the expo properly.
At this point, Tomaz and his team decided the sensible route, especially with the expo due to run for 2 months, was to purchase more LEDBeam s. Most of the front illumination for the exhibits was achieved utilising the DL4S LED profiles, with the Spiiders for adding volume and discreet side lighting.
The biggest goal on site was to get the exhibition lit in a very short time window which involved lots of detailed programming. The lighting — including LED strips in the waistcoat cabinets — were all controlled via a grandMA console — the Castle has a large MA network with consoles in multiple spaces that can control lighting flexibly from throughout the venue.
