"THE BALLROOM" GROUP SHOW
- January 29, 2022 - February 26, 2022
- Exhibition
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- Artwork
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- Artists
Light Bulb #1
- Cristal soufflé (Royal Leerdam Crystal), LEDS
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40 x 30 x 30 cm
(15.75 x 11.81 x 11.81 in)
- Pieke Bergmans
« You may wonder: What is a Light Blub??
The answer is simple: it is a light bulb that has gone way out of line. Infected by the dreaded Design Virus, these Blubs have taken on all kinds of forms and sizes you wouldn’t expect from such well behaving and reliable little products.
The Light Blubs are a series of crystal lamps, that are all unique handcrafted crystal pieces, equipped with LED lights.
Bergmans first ‘infected’ bulbs appeared in Milan in 2008, which means melted bulbs came dripping down from the ceiling... But the infection did not cure. It’s on the rampage with no cure in sight. Even the bulbs in the safe haven of their lamps are not spared. Their DNA has mutated, more grotesque, more mutilated than ever before. Like with an infection, the older the product the more susceptible it is: Old and tired lamps surrendering their bulbs to gravity. A desk lamp giving up on life, its last gasp forming the bulb. Office cupboards, made superfluous by digital databases, prop up Light Blubs with care and love. A lamp ejects her Light Blub in desperation.
These symptoms are unique, their phenomena unpredictable.
The Light Blubs accepting their fate and the pull of gravity.”