Ingo Maurer
Ingo Maurer ( born May 12, 1932 on the island of Reichenau ) is a German industrial designer who specializes in lighting fixtures and installations.
Life
Ingo Maurer is the son of a fisherman, who also worked as an inventor. Mason grew up with his four brothers and sisters on the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance. After his father's death, he completed a typesetter teaching in Konstanz. He then moved on to graphic design and studied from 1954 to 1958 in Munich commercial art. In 1960 he emigrated to the USA where he worked as a graphic designer in New York and San Francisco until 1963. In 1966 he founded as an autodidact in the field of industrial design under the name of M Design a company in which he developed his own designs for lights to product maturity, produced and sold. One of his first designs, " Bulb " (1966 ) was included in the Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1969.
In 1984 he introduced the low-voltage lighting system " YaYaHo ", which consists of two horizontally stretched metal cables and freely moving light elements with halogen bulbs. The lighting system has become the template for numerous imitators. The company was renamed M Design Ingo Maurer GmbH and grow as required. The headquarters, however, always remained in Munich.
1989 shows the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Jouy -en- Josas, near Paris mason first work with light that were not commercial in nature. The exhibition was titled Ingo Maurer: Lumière Hasard Réflexion. Since then, his designs and objects including solo exhibitions Ingo Maurer were shown in a series of exhibitions: Working with light in the Villa Stuck, Munich ( 1992), light light at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1993 ), ephemeral visionary Ingo Maurer.Licht in Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt. The Vitra Design Museum organized in 2002, the Ingo Maurer - Light - Reaching for the Moon, a traveling exhibition, which was shown in Europe and in Japan. 2007 showed the Cooper -Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the exhibition Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer.
Since 1990, Ingo Maurer addition to the design of lamps for serial production with the planning of lighting installations for rooms public and private clients, such as the dome-shaped light objects for the metro station West Cemetery in Munich ( 1998). For Issey Miyake he realized an installation for a fashion show in Paris ( 1999) and a light object for Miyake's London showroom. In 2006 he designed light objects such as installations for the interiors of the Atomium in Brussels.
Known designs are, inter alia, the winged bulb Lucellino (1992 ), the shards lamp Porca Miseria! (1994). Maurer has been working since the early 1980s with a team of designers / developers to assist him in implementing his ideas. At the fairs in the furnishing industry in Frankfurt, Cologne and Milan, he falls since the 1970s due to its unusual presentations. In 1999 he opened his own showroom in New York, in 2009 a second, larger showroom in Munich, which is also used for exhibition.
Quotes
" I have been following do not own strategy in my work. I love the unconscious. It is as if a child sees a crack in the wall and gives rise to his imagination from a valley. This way of working often produces pleasure but sometimes pain in me. Anyway, it's important to me to work so that I will not one day stand beside me, looking over my shoulder and wondering what I was doing there. The analysis of my work I leave to others. I really am often amazed at what others interpret my work into it. "
" Design, in which behind it no longer feels the people disgusts me. [ ... ] Important to me is the easy - and impermanence. A thing is not to stand there like a block of concrete, as a monument for eternity. We are successful when we trigger a sense in humans. At the show, it often happens that people with dark faces sneak through the gears, then come in to us, look around and start to smile. This joy in their faces, that's what makes me happy. "