Patrice Warrener

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.

[1] 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 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.