Elation’s Artiste Mondrian™ LED profile FX luminaire is now in stock and shipping. The Artiste Mondrian is designed to be “a high-impact lighting solution for any application requiring powerful beam looks, stunning air effects and superior color,” according to the announcement. It has 51,000 lumens and offers advanced features surpassing outdated and inefficient lamp technology.
The new Mondrian partners alongside and uses the same technology as the acclaimed Artiste Monet and Artiste Rembrandt moving heads, including Elation’s 7-flag SpectraColor color mixing system, and endless and continuous rotational framing system. The Artiste Mondrian is the brightest, full-featured LED Profile FX fixture Elation has produced to date.
“The Artiste Mondrian really has it all,” states Elation Product Manager Matthias Hinrichs. “Tight beams from its massive front lens, smooth washes with unprecedented light output and sharp images without ever compromising on its incredible projection performance. It’s a true all-in-one workhorse that outperforms any discharge fixture in the market without the usual drawbacks of distracting fan noise and rapid degradation of light quality. Its mid-air creative FX are phenomenal due to the beautiful SpectraColors and carefully designed gobo selection. It’s a truly stunning luminaire and a great finale to the Artiste range of products. Like its namesake, Piet Mondrian, this fixture will create iconic looks for lighting designers for many years to come.”
The Mondrian harnesses long-throw power from an efficient 950W 6,500K White Hotspot LED engine. The custom peak-field LED engine features a 2-to-1 center to edge LED ratio for a high center intensity beam and wash throws while allowing for unique air FX.
A custom-designed 226mm (8 3/4") Plano Convex lens create a thick beam look that is deceptively tangible. Combined with a tight 3.3-degree narrow beam that zooms out to 45-degrees, the Mondrian is designed to power through great distances in arena touring environments or any large-scale show setting as a long-throw followspot.
The Mondrian integrates Elation's SpectraColor color mixing system, which offers traditional CMY mixing but adds a variable RGB color mix for saturated primaries. In combination with a variable CTO, the Mondrian allows for colors from theatrical pastels to the most vibrant red or blues. The seven color-mixing flags align at 16-bit precision. A 6-position fixed color wheel offers UV and high CRI options to round out the fixture’s color range.
The full-blackout framing array includes Elation's newly designed, unlimited indexing and continuous 360° rotation control, eliminating the need to rotate the fixture to hit the spot or angle desired. Users can refine the beam shape as needed and frame around objects to be highlighted. Shapes can rotate like gobos while morphing and transforming, allowing for new creative transitions, interesting projections and aerial effects not previously possible with other Elation fixtures.
The Artiste Mondrian offers a comprehensive FX package with 12 rotating interchangeable glass gobos on two wheels and bi-directional animation wheel for limitless texture and layering solutions for the large and demanding applications. Effects can be multiplied via dual prisms for more bustling looks and dual linear frost filters can be applied for an even diffusion of light for softer gobo or soft wash effects. A high-speed iris can be engaged for further impression.
