Fountain Scan
Site-specific Installation [2020]
Cutting through the 30m heigh fountain, fast moving laser beams create stroboscope-like momentary planes of colored light, revealing that what appears to be a while wall of water is in fact millions of individual drops, illuminated for fractions of a second.
The position of those planes change slowly offering different perspectives and experiences over time.
Additionally four static laser beams follow the main axes of the park and meet at the base of the large fountain. The longest beam starts at the castle and bridges 500m, guiding visitors to the fountain. The beams are using a special 488nM laser source, a pure cyan color which is outside the standard RGB range, and cannot be perfectly (re)created with computer screens or correctly captured on digital cameras.
Fountain Scan is a commissioned production for KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen 2020 on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the fountain in the Herrenhausen Gardens.
September 24 - October 11 2020
Great Fountain, Schloss Herrenhausen
Hannover, Germany
Installation made possible with the generous support of LaserAnimation Sollinger Berlin . Photos by Mihály Podobni and Helge Krückeberg.