With the ignitor off , Italian artistFabrizio Corneli‘s work looks like pretty but unspectacular — just alloy boxes and scraps . But with the flip of a switch , a whole new world of light emerges . His sculptures are cut with a mathematical precision so that light spills out in beautiful , unexpected form .
In this piece below called Iperboreo — Italian forHyperborea — a copper box with a halogen lamp enshroud inside transform into a fireball held in the lands of a ghostly , otherworldly figure .
Corneli ’s outdoor installations also play off of light , but this prison term it ’s the shifting natural rays of the Lord’s Day . As the sun go across the sky , a expression appears and then vanish . This one is called Augenblick , German for “ moment ” or , literally , a glance of the eye .
In our ordinary lives , brightness leaks out from window and door cracks , spill out uncontrollably into the dark . In the hands of a skilled creative person , light becomes a precise , tensile medium that gives unexpected life history to ordinary - front objects . See more of Corneli ’s work at hiswebsite . [ Fabrizio CorneliviaMy Modern Met ]
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