Luminous Mushroom

Embodiment by Eric Franklin

Luminous Mushroom — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:34:53 +0000

Portland-based sculptor Eric Franklin constructs stunning anatomical light structures that are fully hollow and filled with ionized krypton, causing them to glow similar to a neon light. The blue glass skeleton above, Embodiment, took over 1,000 hours of work over a two year period and is actually built from 10 separate units of glass formed from borosilicate glass tubing. The process of creating something like this is unbelievably painstaking.

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Luminaris by Juan Pablo Zaramella

Luminous Mushroom — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:31:04 +0000

Luminaris is a recent stop motion short from Argentine director Juan Pablo Zaramella featuring some delightful sequences using shadows, lightbulbs, and marbles. The film tells the story of a man living in a world controlled and timed by light and the plan he hatches to escape. Luminaris won the Audience Award and Fipresci Award at Annecy 2011, and was included in the Oscars shortlist for Best Animated Short.

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Mutant Weeds by Luzinterruptus

Luminous Mushroom — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:12:19 +0000

Luzinterruptus, an anonymous artistic group, who carries out urban interventions in public spaces, created the Mutant Weeds installation, to protest the light pollution caused by the new high power pharmacy signs in Madrid. To accomplish this mission, they acquired fluorescent sticks, which they gave the form of blades of grass and placed them on the pavement, converting the reflections into small radioactive fields that produced a curious anticipation in the many citizens who walked the streets at those hours.

Luzinterruptus: ”Without wanting to play down such a serious subject, but trying to approach it with a sense of humor, which never hurts, we carried out our installation Mutant Weeds in which we recreated a not-too-distant future, in which a new and hardy species of photosensitive plant, grows in the asphalt around the pharmacies, nourished by the photosynthesis of its powerful “low” light.”

by Luzinterruptus

Mole Antonelliana Installation by Italo Lupi

Luminous Mushroom — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:10:02 +0000

Set upon the tallest building in Turin, Italy is the ‘Torino + Light + Italian Colours Mole Antonelliana Lighting Installation’, a project by Italian architect Italo Lupi and Milan-based practice Migliore + Servetto Architetti Associati, in collaboration with Dutch electronics company Philips and Italian lighting fixture company Luceplan. The historic landmark, ‘Mole Antonelliana’, is currently sporting three rectangular steel frames which contain red, white and green LED lights to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. Suspended from the spire and floating above the dome approximately 80 to 100 meters high, the perimeter of the tilted frameworks are 168 meters in length.

Coming to life at night, the brightly illuminated elements project the colors of the Italian flag in celebration to the city. The structure’s new dressing of colorful rings becomes a main symbol to the citizens, communicating this milestone to the pedestrian level and reaching as far as the suburbs. Visible from all perspectives, visitors have a panoramic vista of the emblematic gesture as they approach from the surrounding hills.

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Eco and Horizon by Ivan Navarro

Luminous Mushroom — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:30:53 +0000

Continuing in the same vein as his one way mirror ‘Bed’ installation featured in the Chilean Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Art Biennale, Brooklyn-based artist Iván Navarro has created ‘Eco 1 (Cherry)’ and ‘Horizon’. The two neon light sculptures were both developed in 2011 and have been composed as patterned fluorescent installations on display at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York City, USA.

As the viewer looks down into the unpeeled drum of ‘Eco 1 (Cherry)’, resting upon the gallery floor, he/she is able to peer through a precisely-positioned one-way mirror in order to see the word ‘eco’ scrawled in bright tube-lighting material. Due to the interaction of the see-through mirrors, an illusion is created as the word seems to be multiplied in an endlessly echoed descent into a darkness.

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Anatomical Neon by Jessica Lloyd-Jones

Luminous Mushroom — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:50:05 +0000

Anatomical Neon is a series of blown glass lights by North Wales-based artist Jessica Lloyd-Jones meant to focus attention on how energy is used by the human body. Describing the four pieces via her website she says:

Brain Wave conveys neurological processing activity as a kinetic and sensory, physical phenomena through its display of moving electric plasma. Optic Nerve shows a similar effect, more akin to the blood vessels of the eye and with a front ‘lens’ magnifying the movement and the intensity of light. Heart is a representation of the human heart illuminated by still red neon gas. Electric Lungsis a more technically intricate structure with xenon gas spreading through its passage ways, communicating our human unawareness of the trace gases we inhale in our breathable atmosphere.

The pieces were funded in part by awards from Arts Council Wales and Wales Arts International and executed at Urban Glass in New York in 2010.

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Atomic by Nike Savvas

Luminous Mushroom — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:31:03 +0000

Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder was a 2005 installation by artist Nike Savvas at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. The piece involved an immense array of suspended bouncy balls creating a dense field of color in the gallery space that was gently moved in waves by a nearby fan. Savvas most recently exhibited a series of complex geometric thread installations at Breenspace.

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Tuft Pula by Numen/ For Use

Luminous Mushroom — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:46:03 +0000

Numen/For Use creates large scale interactive sculptures made predominantly from tape. The Austrian-Croatian studio’s latest work is ‘Tuft Pula’, whereby the adhesive material is used to form the structural framework of the organically shaped habitable space. The interior of the piece is precisely lined with carpet, achieved through the division of the floor covering into two-dimensional segments. Executed using traditional tufting technology, the development and production was executed in a Croatian factory, Regenarcija.

The backside of the carpet is deliberately exposed, its rough and industrial surface acting as a contrast to the warmth and softness projected by the red rug which creates an almost womb-like effect from within. Situated within a former church in Pula, Croatia, ’Tuft Pula’ hangs at a height of 4 meters above ground level, enhancing the tension and sensory perception of the visitor.

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EL-Dance Performance by Wrecking Crew Orchestra

Luminous Mushroom — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:24:38 +0000

A new 5 minutes dance routine that was created for a commercial advertising Docomo’s new Xperia Smartphone. The carefully choreographed number features members of Japanese street dance troupe Wrecking Crew Orchestra decked out in wirelessly controlled electro luminescent wire suits.

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Oculus by Chris Ryan

Luminous Mushroom — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:11:13 +0000

“Oculus pendants originated in contrast to hyper-minimalistic styling trends in lighting. Meant to convey a sense of pod-like fleshiness when lit, the unlit state is boney and protective. The forms aim to entice curiosity while suggesting something in a private state of being. Mainly shedding up-light, the diffusers also cast a single curious ellipse from their oculus.”

Oculus pendants are slip cast translucent porcelain and their dimensions are 11″ x 8″.

by Chris Ryan