This is Spotlight, today with DGA we interview Andrea Cacaci from Lombardini 22 to whom we asked if a correct light is functional to the creation of an identity of place
Hello, good evening or maybe goodnight
I'm talking from Milano in late June afternoon
the light tha enlight me is a mix between of what's left of a bright day and an artificial source
if we were in Helsinki right now the light would come into this room must be completely different
I'd have a chance to turn off the artificial light and maybe there will be a few rays of the setting sun
if we were in Casablanca most likely the only chance we have to see each other would be the artificial source
because it would be dark outside by now
except extreme situations like sunrise and sunset, also during the day the natural light creates particular scenes that uniquely characterize every city and every place
today we spent time inside biuldings that are homes, offices
and it is artificial light that has become our reference source
losing our relationship with natural light we have partially lost the sense of time
we created daylight saving time, lot of us has sleeping troubles beacauese our biological clock can read the reality
a good exercise could be to go and look at the brightness used by painters who lived at different latitudes
the light we found in Spanish painter Sorolla is not the same we found in Segantini artworks and less than ever in that of Nordic artists like Vermeer
the difference is clear and clarifying, the lighting designer has a great master to learn from, to take example from: the nature
goodbye
