The Arriaga Theater in Bilbao comes to life thanks to Perla28's mapping techniques

The Barcelona production company Perla28 has made a spectacular mapping on the façade of the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao within the framework of the fourth edition of the 'White Night'’ from the capital of Biscay, a cultural event that includes more than a dozen music shows, animation and performing arts.

last saturday 16 June Bilbao experienced the 'White Night' for the fourth consecutive year, that transformed the city into the stage for more than a dozen music shows, animation, performing arts and activities linked to culture; designed specifically for this evening. The Fundación Bilbao 700-III Millenium Foundation, with the sponsorship of the Bilbao City Council, organizes this annual event in which it aims to highlight the city's own infrastructure and cultural centers through a different program than usual; more playful and collective, diverse reach and audience. Those in charge of “giving life” to each of the spaces are outstanding professionals in different fields of action.: to literature, the music, theater and even gastronomy.

The buildings also take on a special role in this artistic night, with special lighting that surprises the public on their night walk through the capital of Biscay. The TBA The Butterflyes Advertising agency commissioned the multipurpose production company Perla28 the production of the contents of a mapping on the façade of the Arriaga Theater specifically conceived for this evening. This mapping was carried out with different overlapping techniques: 3D, 2D with illustration and Aquarela, creating content linked to the story, the tradition and culture of the Basque Country; a combination of the fantastic, understood as magical realism and projected architecture, which allowed Perla28 to build and deconstruct the Arriaga Theater at its convenience to give it a surprising spectacularity.

City history

The script of the audiovisual projection created by this Catalan production company attempts to recreate 3 phases of the city's history: the mythical or linked to Basque nature, the sea and the forest; the industrial with its manufacturing and metallurgical development, the pollution of the estuary and its noise; and finally the new Bilbao with avant-garde architecture, green and sustainable spaces and a city order suitable for the 21st century. So, The mapping tells the history of the city in just over 7 minutes in 7 different sections:

– Introduction: The city is destroyed by natural forces to clear the “scenery” for history.
– The Sea: Bilbao is a city on the shores of the sea and the sea. We see a seaman with a harpoon hunting whales, since traditionally the Basque people hunted whales.
– underwater: Commemoration of the sea as one of the main resources of Bilbao.
– The Forest: Commemoration of the forest as another of the main resources of the Basque Country.
– Bilbao industrial: At the end of the 19th century, Bilbao became a highly industrialized city. The metal wheels falling from the sky represent that change, from the forest to the industry. Old Bilbao with its steamboats and the machinery of that time, growing into a large factory.
– Kronos, time travel: A sequence to take us to today.
– The modern Bilbao: The building is drawn with a pencil, like a work of architecture. This leads to contemporary Bilbao. A prosperous city with impressive buildings, such as the Guggenheim and other architectural structures that have become an icon of the city.

The original soundtrack composed by Roger Pasto Cortina exalts these phases with great skill and evocation., the same as a sound design at the level of a feature film.

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