The latest version of the Angles light object is called Angles XL. A fascinating lamp in which can get lost, similar to M.C. Escher’s ‘House of Stairs’. This intriguing illumination resembles a maze, a labyrinth of repetitive forms, a spatial optical illusion, and is almost psychedelic.
Nevertheless, Alex Groot Jebbink uses only a simple form in which the power lies in the repetition of that simple form. Using as little material as possible – four plates of MDF of only four millimeters thick – he tries to create as much volume as possible with precise, dimensionally stable laser technology by assembling rectangles in a specific way, like a building made of Lego blocks.
It results in an impressive new image with a great deal of depth, in which a single light source casts unusual and poetic shadows on the surroundings. Groot Jebbink, who believes that astonishment lies in the repetition of a simple form, calls it magic when you are able to tell a simple story in which materials, shapes, light, space, technique, and coluors are the chapters, without losing sight of the essence.
He uses his background as a mechanical engineer, interior architect, and furniture designer to realize his new lighting objects, both standing and hanging: the Lamp / Ovals XL and the Lamp / Angles XL. Ovals consists of forty laser-cut oval shapes, Angles consists of numerous rectangles that are connected to each other with the same half-timber connections, as is customary in interior architecture.
The architect’s style can be found in these spatial lighting objects; he certainly surprises us with this atmospheric mini-architecture.
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