GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA – Waterfall of Light, a new sculpture by artist Dimitar Lukanov was unveiled at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) in April. Lukanov’s design was the winning proposal of a nation-wide competition organized by the airport. Waterfall of Light is the largest and last of eight other art and design features at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport Terminal that are part of Art Program Phase One.  There will be a WINGSPAN Grand Opening Celebration on May 23 from 6-8 pm.

Installed at one of GSP airport’s most prominent locations – North Pyramid Fountain - the sculpture will “live” as a visual crossroad of GSP's renovated air Terminal; a welcoming beacon and a focal perspective point as if all trajectories of travel converge into one. The constant yet never-the-same reflection of the water creates the illusion of Waterfall of Light being always in motion.

Lukanov created the 19 ft (6m) (1,000 lb.) sculpture - made of 250 ft of bent steel tubing with an upward sequence of 300 light-filled filigree steel elements - based on only two drawings. No computer was used. He built the sculpture in his Schoharie County, upstate New York studio as a veritable drawing in space with work development, all scaled by eye.

As a symbol of growth, renewal and continuum, the sculpture’s ascendant cascades of light culminate in a sun, oriented to both airport’s interior and GSP’s unique, nature-saturated exterior grounds. Much like people in an airport, the beams of light - veritable comets, visualized by hundreds of sculpture’s elements, converge into a single apex, only to disperse ad infinitum at its next level. Like the flow of water, Waterfall of Light is a never-ending gesture of movement, and life.

Millions of people around the world are familiar with Dimitar Lukanov’s public art as his 2014 major three-piece (Outside Time, Voice of Tomorrow, History of Time) sculpture commission for JFK International Airport in New York continues to garner praise.

ABOUT DIMITAR LUKANOV

Born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1969, Dimitar Lukanov lives in Brooklyn and works in his studio in Schoharie County, New York. An American citizen since 2003, Lukanov studied art on full scholarship in Paris and New York receiving his MFA from Columbia University in 1997. He is the recipient of numerous grants including: Pollack Krasner, Michel and Helene David-Weill grant, Paris and New York, Clews Center for the Arts fellowship, France, Soros Open Society, Skowhegan Fellowship, ArtCultureStudio, Geneva, Switzerland, Medal for Sculpture, First International Sculpture Symposium, Mexico and Invited Artist International Art Fair, Shanghai and Moscow, ExpressArte, Mexico. He is member of the Chilean Association of Painters and Sculptors.

www.dimitarlukanov.com

ABOUT GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

More than 1.9 million passengers per year are served by 5 major airlines offering 49 non-stop average daily departures to 14 major cities and 18 airports across the US. A connection in one of those 14 cities makes access to the world easy from GSP International. Over fifty years ago, the seeds were planted for what is known today as Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport – Roger Milliken Field. Since that first flight which took place in 1962, GSP has earned a reputation of safety and has grown into one of the finest airports in the country. www.gspairport.com