Patrice Warrener is a French light artist, mostly known for his Chromolithe Polychromatic Illumination System. Warrener has made more than 60 chromolithe installations over the last fifteen years, lighting up buildings in close to a dozen different nations. Warrener's work has influenced the rising numbers of Light Festivals in many cities of
World Heritage
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status around the world.
Trained as a
printer
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, Patrice made his mark in the world of light shows: first, with the French
co-operative
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''Open Light'', and then with his collaboration with the English musician, and
electronic music
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pioneer,
Tim Blake
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, with whom he introduced Laser Lighting effects in their Crystal Machine shows in the early 1970s.
In 2016 Warrener illuminated the front of
Westminster Abbey
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in
London
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with coloured light projected onto statues as part of the
Lumiere light festival.
In 2025, from 20 to 22 June, Patrice Warrener illuminated the
church of the Pilgrim Virgin in the Spanish city of
Pontevedra
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, during the first 3 days of the 32nd edition of the Pontevedra International Art Biennial.
Chromolithe
Chromolithe installations have been made for cathedrals and churches, historic public buildings, modern art museums, and even banks.
The chromolithe process starts with data collection, using a specially-built photographic chamber, months of meticulous art work on computer screens, and finally re-projecting the image, printed to 24x24 cm photographic plates, back onto the building from a series of custom-built 6000Kva
Xenon
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projectors, discreetly placed, so as to make the light source appear invisible.
Some of the cathedrals and intricate sculptured Gothic buildings that have been chromolithed, were originally painted. Thus, Warrener's work can be seen as a restoration of heritage buildings.
Gallery
Image:Lichtkunst2.jpg, Second projection
Image:Lichtkunst3.jpg, Third projection
Image:Westminster Abbey Lumiere London 2016.jpg, Coloured light projected onto Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British m ...
for Lumiere
Image:Roemer_2017.jpg, Römerberg (Frankfurt)
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October 2017
References
External links
Chromolithe web siteChromolithe at Lyon on YouTube
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French artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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