This year, Lumiere London will brighten up the streets on Jan. 14 until 17 and all of it are of free admission.
Artichoke, an event organizer team responsible for the project, enlisted 20 artists who are tasked to lighten up buildings, streets and landscape of London. The said affair will have neon displays, illuminated works of art, 3D projections and light performances across the King Cross and West End.
The light display event will stretch from the West End in places such as Leicester Square, Piccadilly, St. James, Carnaby Street and Oxford Circus. In the King's Cross, the illuminated works of art will fill Granary Square and German Gymnasium.
Aquarium, 1.8 London, Les Voyageurs and Guardian of Light are the many attractions that have already been revealed on the West End. For the Aquarium, French artist Benedetto Bufalino transforms a Mayfair phone booth into an aquarium filled with live fish inside. Another group of French artists called TILT will see the Leicester Square with illuminated gigantic plants for The Garden of Light. Les Voyageurs are giant illuminated figures made by French artist Cedric le Borgne.
In the Oxford Circus, a net-like masterpiece made out of colorful strings hovers above the sky for visitors to admire at. It's referred to as the '1.8 London' and is made by American sculptor Janet Echelman. She got the name from the 2011 Japanese Tsunami so tremendous that it caused a single day to be shortened by 1.8 micro-seconds.
For those who are fond of animals, a collection of Neon Dogs made by an artist from Northern Ireland named Deepa Mann Kler can also be found in the light-filled festival. Catherine Garret and Top'la Design uses fog in order to project a massive elephant as large as the real thing that will make its way through the urban jungle of Air Street between Piccadilly and Regent Streets.
Julian Opie, visual artist of the New British Sculpture movement, will also create an artwork surprise, which will be exhibited permanently in Carnaby Street once the festival ends.
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