Let's travel together #60 - Spotlight 2018 (Bucharest International Light Festival) [Part 2 of a great adventure!]

Today is a special day as I've reached the beautiful number #60 on my Let's travel together series and I love the fact that I can present something different in today's post.
Something more colorful which I'm sure will light up everyone's heart.
Of course the fabulous event that my eyes got the chance to enjoy can't be described with a few pictures and words, but I will try my best.
Let's discover together the 2nd part of a great day!

Spotlight is an international video mapping contest where many professionals and artists from different countries are participating, being ready to color the city for a few evenings with their talent.
It's the 4th year in a row when Spotlight is unfolding in Romania bringing 11 artists who will project different illustrations on some of the biggest and most important buildings from Bucharest.
The event was held between 12-15 April every evening between 8.00-11.00 PM and it brought in the streets around 500.000 people who got fascinated by the beautiful play of lights.
The picture from the right represents the official map from Bucharest containing the buildings where the festival of lights was presented. But let's take them one by one..

Arcul de Triumf is a monumental structure situated on the Kiseleff Road in the north of Bucharest.
The artistic projection was realized by Daniel Margraf from Germany which starts the beautiful show of the festival of lights.

Arcul de Triumf is about 27 meters height and it represents one of the most known symbols of the capital.
The illustration from the sculpture is not random as the projection is reminding about the Romania's Victory from the World War I but also the interesting fact that many victorious forces are walking under it every year such as parades from the National Day.

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Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History represents one of the oldest research institutions from our country but also an important place for education and culture for the visitors.
The projection on the museum is realized by the same Daniel Margraf from Germany who shows the theme of the museum - animals.
The museum hides around 2 million different pieces which creates many zoological collections but also osteological, geological, mineralogical and many more, some of them being kept for special scientific reserches.

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Ştirbey Palace became an restaurant which is open for both clubbing lovers but also lazy people who can relax on a hot day of summer in this place.
The restaurant hosts numerous events for any kind of people which is always welcoming with warmth its visitors.
The illustration you see on the palace was projected by the same talented guy - Daniel Margraf from Germany.

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Romanian Athenaeum represents one of the most important concert halls from Bucharest which shelters the the headquarters of the philharmonic "George Enescu".
The neoclassical and eclectic styles of the building highlights the fact that the building itself is pure art and the projection from it, makes it look even more amazing.
Illustration realized by Daniel Margraf from Germany.

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Revolution Square from Bucharest includes more important buildings that are around but the one you see in the picture represents the the seat of the Senate and also the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform.
The artistic projection was created by Daniel Margraf from Germany and it shows the celebration of 100 years since the great union happened, back in 1918.

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The Odeon Theater has two showrooms - Majestic Showroom being one of them which is the only the only one existing in Europe with a sliding roof and Studio Showroom located in the basement of the theater.
The illustration from theater represents the language of love projected by Daniel Bandke from Germany.

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100 STYLES OF TEXTURES nothing else but some of the cultures of Romania, presenting people dressed up with traditional clothes which are dancing, being surrounded by eggs - because on 8th April we celebrated the Orthodox Easter.
The illustration was realized by Christopher Noelle from Germany.

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CEC Palace represents the palace of deposits, savings and consignations and the illustrations presented on it left the watchers speechless.
The illustrations presented on the palace showed the projections created by different artists among whom we mention: Darklight Studio from Spain, Hermes Mangialardo from Italy, KEDR Visuals from Russia, Mindscape Studio from Romania, Multiscalar from Germany and Skgmedia from China.

Grand Hôtel du Boulevard is an historical hotel which is ready to satisfy even the finest luxury requirements by the visitors.
The hotel has over 50 rooms and apartments ready to be rent by the most prestigious people.
The artistic projection was realized by Daniel margraf from Germany.

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The colorful flags by Sébastien Lefèvre from France are located on The bridge from Piata Natiunile Unite

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The nomadic cats are projected by Alexandru Ciubotariu from Romania, which represents the street art of Bucharest.
The cats are showing different feelings of people from: angry, sad, happy, funny, tired and so on and the mood of the cats can be changed just by pressing a button.
The dimension of the cats is about 4 meters height each one of them and even though they look pretty unusual comparing with the other illustrations we've seen, they caught the attention of many people.

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Facelessmen is a 3 meters height mask carved in metal created by Radu Ignat from Romania.
The mask is located on Lipscani Street and it represents different emotions, thoughts and feelings of people which can be formed just with the power of lights.
The artist argues that without light on our faces we could never see each other emotions and we would be nothing else but faceless.

Novotel Hotel is one of the best hotels from Bucharest, being located in the center of the capital, really close to the most important locations.
The hotel has 232 rooms and 16 apartments which offers the most qualitative accommodation conditions for any kind of guests.
The illustrations presented on the building were created by Les Ateliers Nomad.

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The Telephone Palace is about 52,5 meters height and it currently represents the headquarters of the Telekom mobile telephony.
The illustrations are showing an interpretation of the Pac Man game played in real lime, realized by Tom Brânduș from Romania.
Even though there are lots of illustrations you can enjoy, there are also different activities going on on the streets, from break dancing to singing, or even some food trucks where you can stop by and take a break from exploring.

House of Cards presents 128 giant cards which are lighting according to the beat of the music representing one of the biggest attractions from Spotlight 2018.
The artistic cards were created by OGE Creative Group from Israel and each one of the cards have a different design, being created by 25 visual artists.

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Right next to the House of cards we have The Commercial Bank of Romania (BCR) who's illustrations are created by Daniel Margraf from Germany showing two important aspects.
One of them would be the architecture of the building and the other one is represented by the slogan "United We Shine."

I will end this post by saying it was a great day around Bucharest, even though I live in this city for 2 years I always tend to get to the mountains or some wild places, rather than discovering the city.
So 15th April was a beautiful day when I discovered a little bit more of the Romania's capital and it totally worth it.
16KM well spent!
The only thing that I'm sad about is that I haven't managed to see all 27 illustrations created by the artists but that was impossible with 500.000 people in the streets, it was way too crowded.
For a few times we even got lost as the GPS wouldn't work anymore and everyone was running in all directions to see as many projections as they could but it was still fun.
Anyway I'm happy that I could share with you my first experience on Spotlight and who knows, maybe next year I will see all of them.
I hope I was able to bring some color into your life with the help of Festival of Lights and don't forget to spear a smile. 😄
Have a great week(end)!✌️

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