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San fernando cathedral light show cancelled!
Xavier de richemont biography of william hill
San Fernando Cathedral's 'The Saga' will continue its run downtown
In June 2014, when "The Saga" by French artist Xavier de Richemont, first debuted in downtown San Antonio, the city had never seen anything like it.
He was in San Antonio for the attraction’s debut.
"It’s a video painting of the cathedral," de Richemont explained. He harnessed the light, the images, and textures and mapped them onto the San Fernando Cathedral facade.
The cathedral’s earthen tones, twin towers, rose windows and triple wooden doors, don’t necessarily lend themselves to video animation.
But de Richemont found a way to breathe life into the inanimate objects.
"I’m working with the architecture of the cathedral, using it and transforming it depending on what I am talking about," he said.
The original 2014 contract was due to expire this June, but the Main Plaza Conservancy’s Molly Hall-Villareal said they came to an agreement with de Richemont.
The show will go on.
“We signed a cont