'Frankfurt-based artist, Tobias Rehberger creates environments, sculptures, furniture and ceiling installations that are inspired by modernist art history and design classics from the 1960s and 1970s. Playful and interactive, his installations and objects are often dependent on the active participation of his audience. 'Adaption 13' is a series of lamps, which reverse the standard process of works being built from model forms. Rehberger has taken a large-scale model as the basis for his small-scale lamps. The model is the cafeteria at Suddeutsche Zeitung Verlag, Munich, for which Rehberger designed a large centrally-located block, made of different coloured acrylic panels and illuminated from behind. The brightness of the acrylic wall changes according to the information stream that runs through the building's Electronic Data Processing system, and it is this design feature which the artist has distilled for his lamp series.'
I took some photos od the work which are shown below, in some of the photos i took away the focus from the photograph so as just to portray the 'auras' of coloured light and the contrasting colours which appear beautifully in each lamp.
