Studio
One studio,
three perspectives
Outrenoir is a lighting design studio dedicated to showing artworks and spaces at their best: museums, exhibitions, heritage sites and cultural venues.
The studio builds on Ugo Cerina's career. After graduating with a DNSEP from the École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence in 2013, he discovered lighting while working with lighting designers and soon turned to museum lighting.
More than fifteen years of experience, from lighting technician to lighting designer, including seven years at the Musée d'Orsay lighting the collections, have given him a sensitive expertise in contact with the works. Since 2010, more than 270 projects: temporary and permanent exhibitions, new museums, in Paris, Monaco, Luxembourg, Doha or Abu Dhabi.
With Célia Jouve, Gauthier Le Rouzic and Fleur Cerina, the studio works with museums, artists, curators, architects, exhibition designers and other lighting designers, from design to technical delivery.
In contact
with the works
After graduating with a D.N.S.E.P from the École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence in 2013, Ugo discovered his passion for lighting while working with lighting designers, and quickly turned to museum lighting.
With more than fifteen years of experience, from lighting technician to lighting designer, and seven years at the Musée d’Orsay lighting the collections, Ugo has developed a sensitive expertise in contact with works of art.
Today, this experience informs each of his projects.
Between museum
and stage
A lighting designer and exhibition technician based in Lyon, Célia works in museums, the performing arts and contemporary art, where she puts her technical expertise at the service of works, spaces and stage productions.
Six years as lighting manager at the Musée des Confluences, from 2018 to 2024, taught her demanding lighting, designed to protect the collections, guide the visit and reveal the curators’ intentions. Touring with the Annie Tasset opera company, on sound, stage and lighting, gave her a feel for the stage.
Today, between the Seamless agency and her own exhibition projects, she links the rigour of technical management with close attention to perception, materials and the presence of the works.
Museum
Lighting manager for the exhibitions of the Musée des Confluences in Lyon from 2018 to 2024: exhibition installs, lighting and audiovisual, with lighting that protects the collections and guides the visit.
Stage
Sound manager, stage technician and lighting technician on tour with the Annie Tasset opera company: the rigour of stage management, serving the emotion of a performance.
Contemporary art
A lighting designer at the Seamless agency since May 2024, she also leads exhibition projects independently, where light becomes a tool for reading, perceiving and resonating with the works.
The work
and the machine
After graduating with a D.N.S.E.P from the École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence in 2014, Gauthier discovered light by building, wiring and programming artworks, his own as well as those of other artists, including Étienne Rey.
With more than fifteen years of practice, from visual artist to technician and then lighting designer, and an entrepreneur in the cultural and creative industries as co-director of Le Centre, where he creates VR digital twins of museums, Gauthier has developed an approach that links light with digital tools.
Today, he brings 3D and virtual reality to the studio: seeing the light of a space before it is installed.
Artist
A visual artist, since 2009 he has built pieces in which machines speak, from TypeWriterBot, the typewriter that converses, to the Érosion numérique series.
Technician
He builds, wires and programs other artists' works: electrics and light programming for Étienne Rey, installations, exhibition designs.
Entrepreneur
He co-directs Le Centre, a cultural innovation venue based between Marseille and Vierzon: VR digital twins of museums, 3D digitisation, NFT collections for institutions.
A space
to light?
Tell us about the space, how it is used and your schedule: we will come back to you with a first reading and a proposal.
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- Post
- Outrenoir
25 Remparts Berluc Perussis
04300 Forcalquier, France - Meeting
- By appointment, at the studio or at the space to be lit
- Publisher
- Outrenoir SAS
- Registered office
- 25 Remparts Berluc Perussis
04300 Forcalquier, France - Registration
- SIREN to be completed
- Publication director
- Gauthier Le Rouzic
- Host
- Infomaniak Network SA, rue Eugène-Marziano 25, 1227 Les Acacias (Genève), Switzerland
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