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Damned.MGX by Luc Merx

Posted ideaonly on November 15th, 2007 | Filed under - sculpture, Fine Arts

Dutch architect Luc Merx’s lampshade is an algorithmic mass of writhing nudes that recalls the classical motif of the fall of the damned. He imagines the lamp hanging above a dining table, the shock of the frozen, terrified bodies disturbing diners with age-old questions of guilt and morality, issues usually kept behind closed doors. By producing the piece with Materialise’s technology, Merx also has another historical reference in mind: “The lamp is a masterpiece of virtuosity, similar to that of 18th-century ivory furniture,” he says. “But the difference is that this is not the result of our virtuosity, but that of a computer.”
The lampshade appears as a hovering mass of ornaments, opulent and bombastic. When looked at from closer by it dissolves into single bodies, which are twisted in fear and seem to be frozen in falling.

Technology: SLS
Material: polyamide (nylon)
Colour: white
Models: pendant
Dimensions: 606 x 630 x 273 mm

[Via: materialise ]