Video: Hanging Around - light fixture installation at the Philadelphia Museum
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Light is something without which life would not exist. Many times people have met all sorts of terrible incidents on their way, the tragedy of which was the absence of light. But with the advent of electricity into our lives, light could appear in everyone's house, pocket, phone and the like. Deliberate pricelessness of light and show at the exhibition Hanging around (Just Hanging) at the Museum of Modern Art in Philadelphia, reminding us of its importance.
Beginning with the discovery of the electric incandescent lamp by Comrade Thomas Edison, the world began to invent all sorts of variations to frame such a simple but ingenious thing like a light bulb. Not to mention the great variety of different bulbs, the places and objects into which they are screwed are even more diverse. Since the Second World War, lamps began to be made in the form of hanging chandeliers, they were embellished with hanging crystals, more levels were added - all this just so that the light shimmered wherever he could think of.
Hero of the exhibition, German Ingo maurer (Ingo Maurer) "lit up" with many of his works. One of them called (Where are you, Edison? ") Is a holographic image of a light bulb, visible equally from all 360-degrees of view, projected onto a cylindrical" lampshade "through a portrait of Thomas Edison. It seems that the light comes from a holographic image, but in fact, the light source is the light bulb above it.
Ingo Maurer's second stunning creation is a wonderful chandelier (Rybak's Tears). This is a crystal chandelier, the idea for which Ingo came up with during his last visit to Venice - he saw the water drops glitter and shimmer in the sun on the fishing nets of an old Italian fisherman.
Also on display were (Ross Lovegrove),) George Nelson), (Marcel Wonders), (Rodi Graumans), and (Paul Hanningsen). Separately, I would like to say about the work of the designer (Felix Gonzalez-Torres), who created the most beautiful "waterfall" from light bulbs combined into one. His work shows the integrity of light and electricity in general - it seems that the previous lamp is feeding the next.
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