Review on Sustainable Lighting Design in Art Galleries to Balance Between Visibility and Conservation of Light Sensitive
The core function of the Art gallery is art exhibition as well as conservation. Protection of light sensitive exhibits from damaging effect of light while maintaining the higher exhibition quality with respect to visibility is a key concern in lighting de
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Abstract The core function of the Art gallery is art exhibition as well as conservation. Protection of light sensitive exhibits from damaging effect of light while maintaining the higher exhibition quality with respect to visibility is a key concern in lighting design of art galleries. The conflict between light level for visibility of exhibition from viewers’ perspective and conservation of artifacts creates philosophical dilemma for lighting design in art galleries. So, a review of literature has been done in this regard as this conflict still exists. The existing recommended light level for the art galleries from the view of conservation and the need for verification of this existing light level for better visibility have been discussed. As a consequence, this review of literature will help to find out the need of further research so that balance between visibility and conservation of light sensitive art exhibits can be done properly by lighting design of art galleries.
Keywords Art galleries Lighting design Visibility Exhibition Conservation
1 Introduction Art galleries collect, preserve, analyse, and display [1] various artefacts which are often unique in size, shape, texture and colour. Though light is one of the aspects of art gallery design [2] but many of the exhibits are extremely sensitive to light damage. Thus effective exhibit lighting design must balance required visibility level for exhibition and conservation needs [1] simultaneously. Exposure to light in all forms causes a chemical reaction to happen within the molecular level of an artefact [3]. Light exposure can cause textiles to weaken, paints to darken or change colour and paper to become weak, bleached, yellowed or darkened. The best preservation practice would be to house all artefacts in complete darkness whereas the exhibition need of art galleries is failed in that case. As recognized by the International A. Bhattacharjee (&) S. Pal Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 A. Chakrabarti and D. Chakrabarti (eds.), Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 66, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_21
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Commission on Illumination (CIE), an object poorly seen is partially wasted [4]. So, this conflict between two fundamental functions of exhibition in art galleries creates the philosophical dilemma of lighting. High standards of conservation may lead to poor conditions of exhibition [5]. On the other hand, a visually comfortable ambiance for exhibition may expose valuable objects to lower conservation standards. However, this area need more research as the dilemma still exists. In view of this a literature review has been done to focus on the present situation and existing recommendations in this area of conflict.
2 Methodology To fulfill the objectives of this study a systematic review of the English-language literature has been conducted from various
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