Wednesday June 17, 2009
Lighten Up
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I’ve been obsessed with neon lights in art and installation recently, possibly triggered by the VIVID Festival that’s been going on around Sydney.

My favourite collective, United Visual Artists, recently opened an exhibition at The Smithfield in London, and I think it’s really beautiful. It’s a bit of a departure from their usual interactive installations. They say “We travelled to the darkest depths of Britain, looking for places that had been influenced by man’s intervention but never artificially illuminated. Introducing the artificial light had a transforming effect, literally creating a new place that only existed momentarily”. Or something. The pieces are stills mounted on lightboxes.

I also love the work of Stefan Bruggeman, which you can see here.

And I find loads of light-art-inspiration on this website. And lots of design inspiration in general too.
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