Kostas Lambridis Li Tan - Mirror

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Unique
2023
Metal

The "Li Tan" mirror is named after the Chinese monk accredited for inventing the fireworks around 600AD. The firework is an essential motif to Kostas Lambridis; its elemental and inherently deconstructive properties have formed a conceptual link throughout the Reverse Fireworks in Slow Motion exhibition. This artwork encapsulates those concepts, as seen in how Lambridis translates the metal through various states of dematerialisation.

"Li Tan" shows a firework mid-explosion. A flame brush escapes from its top corner, and the fan of curved tubes that lines its base forms a rocketing tail. The force of the blast is contained behind the burnished bronze compartment that Kostas Lambridis has beaten into shape by hand and attached to a buckling metal sheet to mimic an explosive impact. Swinging forward on its hinges, however, it reveals a further compartment.

Artist Biography

Kostas Lambridis (born 1988, Greece) lives and works in Athens. After graduating from the School of Engineering, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering at the University of the Aegean in Syros, he moved to the Netherlands to work in the studio of Nacho Carbonell, where he gained eight years of formative experience. During this time, he also completed a master’s degree in Contextual Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven, graduating cum laude in 2017.