Colors of the times inspire SNFCC light installations

What color is the joy of Christmas? The sadness of the pandemic and grief for its victims? With those emotions running rampant these days, Peru's Renzo B. Larriviere and Australia's Simone Chua of the renowned lighting design firm Amigo & Amigo have translated feelings into colors with the installation "Parabolic Light Cloud" at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Athens' southern coast.

The artists were inspired by the Fibonacci sequence to create a parabolic installation of 1,000 lights whose color combinations are aimed at expressing different powerful emotions. The installation is on display at the Dome of the SNFCC's Labyrinth, and was unveiled on Tuesday during the grand launch of the park's annual holiday light show.

Legends, myths and all sorts of fantastical tales of wonder, meanwhile, are the inspiration behind "Moon Garden" on the...