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Objet
Pièce unique
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In a small, dark workshop that opens on a sunny garden, Christophe Côme creates light out of rusted iron and optical blocks of glass. Each piece is handmade and each gives off a very different sort of light. The 55 kilo cube of solid glass glows a warm shade of yellow-orange, perhaps the sort of light given off by a fire in an igloo ; the thinner, 5 cm thick rectangle of glass edged in weathered metal bands glows with the eerie, watery clarity of an aquarium at night. "It's always a surprise when I turn them on for the first time - I never know what to expect" explains Côme, "each onedepends upon the pieces of glass - sometimes the traces of the saw the workers used to cut the pieces give wavy undulations to the light ; sometimes the minerals and dust that setteled onto the glass bring a very elemental feel."
Whatever the particularity, Côme likes his lamps to show how time that worked on the materials, even rubbing water along the borders of the darkened, rusty metal to unify and heighten the effect.
for nine years Côme has been making light of his job and continues to create in small series of 1-8, so as to be able to change proportion and direction with total freedom, defying categorisation. From long columns of graphic light to smaller jewels of set glass, his lamps are indeed poised on the edge of craft and industry. |
Technique
optical glass, sawed, polished
Dimensions
h 24 cm
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Rapports de matières
iron & optical glass |
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