Les Grands Trans-Parents
- Description
- Designer Bio
A mirror that reveals its
special, unexpected, touch wherever it is used, the enigmatic wordplay
screen-printed on the glass merging with whatever is being reflected. Created
by Man Ray, the American painter, photographer and film-maker. One of the more
radical and multi-talented exponents of both Dada and Surrealism, he was
particularly renowned for his love of experimentation, which included his
achieving some extremely innovative results using air-brushes, photographic
film, and common objects. This oval mirror, is backed with stiff polyurethane,
and derives from a larger piece created by the artist, adapting a Surrealist
artwork into an object for everyday use. This mirror has been in production
since 1971, as part of Ultramobile SimonCollezione.
| About Designer | |
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Man Ray |
Philadelphia/Paris, 1890/1976 U.S. painter, photographer, film maker; one of the
founders of the New York Dada movement, long associated with Surrealism, was,
by temperament an eclectic. In the 1920s and 1930s he worked in Paris, mainly
as a photographer: he and Moholy-Nagy explored the principles of space and
motion in a type of photography that bypassed the camera and concerned itself
with forms produced directly on photographic printing paper.
He realizes his first rayogrammes, one of the most
extraordinary inventions of the XX century: images obtained from photosensitive
materials, exposed without the use of targets and cameras, and without the
mediation of negative, realized by dipping the object directly inside the
emulsion liquid. A random discover: “a piece of paper was accidentally ended up
into the emulsion", this is what Man Ray himself will write in his
biography in 1963. |
