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Gallery: A monumental ‘Light Art Grand Tour USA’ gives Iowa City a tour of America in light
Swiss Light Artist Gerry Hofstetter and his daughter Céline Hofstetter brought their ‘Light Art Grand Tour USA – 50 US Monuments in the Spotlight' to the University of Iowa's Pentacrest Thursday night.
The tour stop in Iowa is one of a tour of 50 state monuments. The show in Iowa City featured light art created by the Hofstetters and their team projected onto the Old Capitol building.
'I selected the building because it stands for the birth of the state, it stands for the vision of the nation,” Hofstetter told the Gazette. 'In this building, there were sessions, meetings, events; it's an interactive place, where people exchange ideas. That's a philosophical link to our tour - we are about exchanging ideas.”
A test image for a projected light show is displayed on the Old Capitol Building in Iowa City on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. Swiss Light Artist Gerry Hofstetter and his daughter Céline Hofstetter present Light Art Grand Tour USA – 50 US Monuments in the Spotlight – Exploring history and friendship. The 'Light Art Grand Tour USA', which runs from 2017 to 2019, will feature one U.S. monument/landmark per state. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
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