Visionnaire Los Angeles
THE TENDER POWER OF LIGHT ON OUR EMOTIONS
In occasion of Frieze Los Angeles 2024 international art fair, Visionnaire’s
showroom illuminates the art scene with a captivating exhibition
showcasing Gupica’s Lucente lighting family. Transforming the
showroom windows into an enchanting canvas, the installation features
various sizes and configurations, creating a dynamic play of light and
shadow.
The project is a delicate reflection on the power that light has on
our emotions and the suggestion that the refractions of gemstones
generate in those who contemplate them when light meets the faceted
and symmetrical surfaces of the stone, causing evocative luminous and
kaleidoscopic effects. The lamp diffusers are indeed inspired by the
famous ‘baguette’ cut of diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, and rubies,
arranged together to form single, double, or cascading sky-ground light
systems.
Creativity and innovation come together: the chosen material for the
creation of the lightings is PMMA, with different color gradients, a
regenerated material, a special “second” raw material that, thanks to
various transformation phases, is given new life and a new purpose.
The opaque LED light source, passing through the stones, produces a
diffused lighting that enhances the transparencies and colours, made by
hand with a particular gradient appearance. A beam of light that radiates
into the surrounding environment, animating the chromatic spectrum.
Photo credit:
Filippo Candotti, Simone Fico
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