Martino Gamper

Luci in bici (Bike lights) consists of bicycles from the ToBike circuit whose wheels, through their movement, turn into screens on which luminous geometric designs take shape. Created as a mobile work and spread throughout the city, it was exhibited in two editions of Luci d’Artista: in 2012 it included 11 bicycles available for use and 2 others displayed upside down, with the wheels in the air, to illustrate how they work. The following year, the mobile component was lost and the project took an exclusively installation form, with 6 bicycles fixed high up on light poles. 

With a creative process at the crossroads between art and design, Gamper deconstructs elements of the past to reconfigure new contemporary scenarios where function and symbolic value, invention and irony coexist, in a logic of transformation and rebirth of objects that, as in the work Luci in bici, also reflects his ecological sensitivity. After an apprenticeship in cabinetmaking, Martino Gamper (Merano, 1971) studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Michelangelo Pistoletto, graduated with Ron Arad from the Royal College of Art in London and then developed a research that soon led him to exhibit in prestigious international contexts and shows. He collaborates with art galleries and well-known design brands. He received the Moroso Award for Contemporary Art and the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year, Furniture Award for 100 Chairs in 100 Days, the project that brought him to critical acclaim. 

Silvia Maria Sara Cammarata