The lamp that I intend to propose comes from thinking that set in opposition to the different perceptions that exist between young and old about the years of lead. If he goes to a boy now the big question: "What do you think of the sixties and seventies?" Probably the answer you get will sound similar to something like "so cool." In fact, in the imagination of young people, this term is surrounded by an aura of legend, a mythical aura, linked to the vindication of the rights of women, at a massive and widespread use of drugs (and consequent effects on the perception of reality), the Jimy Hendrix's guitar and the raspy voice of Janis Joplin, free love and so many other flavors of freedom that make it seem like time apparently a wonderful and unique.
not feel the same way the older people, those who at the time they experienced on their own. Time, as the years 60'-70's, when social unrest was increasing, and street demonstrations became moments of pure violence. The protesters preferred instead to make their voices heard screaming, wearing a mask and get a bars, wrenches (the famous "Hazet 36" long 40-45 cm) of incendiary bombs, guns P38. With each new violent piece of news the public, more and more confused and asked "who benefits?".
In this logic of terror and violence, a growing proportion of citizens, not only belonging to the electorate traditionally "conservative", was prepared and resigned to accept a response like "military" from the state, and to justify the enactment of Read more "special". Italian democracy is still fragile and immature, she stepped back and the country is a crucial step in its history, however, necessary for the salvation of a democracy (or its simulacrum?) Attacked from all sides.
However these events, which represent the most important and perhaps more real than those years, they fall terribly at odds with the image that most young people today have of the '60s and '70s: a world made only of sex, drugs and rock n 'roll.
And in this sense I want to object to contrast these two different aspects of reality, these perceptions so far apart.
The idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a lamp was not made at random: a lamp is, in fact, an object that diffuses light, which "puts" in the light. The general form was obtained by the classic stylized lamp shade in the shape of a cone, reversing the shape and rounded edges in accordance to the styles in vogue in those days, typical of designers such as Saarinen, Eames and Castiglioni. The decision to create a form pointing to the lamp shade roversciata because it has a very specific, namely to highlight the fact that the vision that young people today have of that bygone era is nearly opposite to reality: "high" rather than fear, joy instead of terror.
The bottom of the lamp, which also serves as area lighting, is designed polycarbonate. On its surface texture incorporates graphics that recall those years (this is a work of Lichtenstein, which is topped by the background graphics of its time, with the addition of a woman's face brought to the fore, which highlighted the role predominantly of the fairer sex in those days) and generates, at power, a kaleidoscope of colors that is projected on the surrounding environment, clearly the concept that the image of this period is predominantly psychedelic than darker linked to terrorism and social unrest.
The upper part consists of an element in black plastic with holes made along the entire surface, making the effect of holes caused by bullets.
This project, in its ideal sense, would bring out a far more powerful truth about that time: namely that the drug, the "high" and free sex are just part of a much more complex reality, made also of tension Social fear, a campaign of death that affects individuals, groups of honest citizens and the very structures of the state.
The decision to use a plastic matte black (color, this, that our culture is associated with death) that prevents the passage of light from the top of the body (apart from the holes), wishes to emphasize that the appearance of violent those years in which so much talk about the youth of today, is often "obscured", erased, even relegated to secondary consideration. Ultimately
a lamp, in addition to highlighting, also projects the shadows.
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