Light according to acclaimed artist James Turrell is a powerful substance which we all have a primal connection to. For Rotterdam-based designer Sabine Marcelis it is also a materia prima whose properties she poetically manipulates through the inventive use of neon lamps, reflective surfaces and coloured translucencies. Effortlessly moving between product design, installation and art, Marcelis’ work, whether it is being commissioned by commercial clients or created for art galleries, is underpinned by a minimalist sensibility established by such artists such as Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin. At the same time, fueled by a curious mind, her work is empowered by a daring sense of experimentation based on cutting-edge technologies and innovative manufacturing processes. Inspired by nature’s magical colour palette during sunrise, the Dawn Lights series explores the relationship between light and colour by casting neon tubes into seductively hued resin forms. Similar in construction, the Voie Lights trace the path of light by having the neon tubes emerge from the resin casts, while the layered and polychromatic glass objects in the Seeing Glass series are the product of Marcelis’ ongoing study into optical effects created with glass, conducted in collaboration with Brit van Nerven.

根据著名艺术家詹姆斯·特雷尔 (JamesTurrell) 的说法，光是一种强大的物质，我们都有着原始的联系。对鹿特丹的设计师萨宾·马塞利斯来说，这也是一种质料，她通过独创地使用霓虹灯、反光表面和彩色半透明物来实现她的特性。马塞利斯的作品在产品设计、安装和艺术之间毫不费力地移动，无论是由商业客户委托，还是为艺术画廊创作，都是由丹·弗莱文 (Dan Flavin) 和罗伯特·欧文 (Robert Irwin) 等艺术家确立的极简主义情感支撑。同时，在好奇心的推动下，她的工作被一种基于尖端技术和创新制造工艺的大胆的实验意识所赋予。灵感来自大自然的神奇色彩调色板在日出，黎明灯系列探索光和颜色之间的关系，通过将霓虹灯管铸造成诱人的色彩树脂形式。在结构上类似，VIE 灯通过树脂铸型中的霓虹灯管来追踪光的路径，而在可视玻璃系列中的分层和多色玻璃物体是 Marcelis 正在与 Brit van Nerven 合作对玻璃产生的光学效果进行研究的产物。

Sabine Marcelis, Dawn Lights, 2015. Photo © Lee Wei Swee.

萨宾·马塞利斯，“黎明之灯”，2015 年。照片：李伟。

Sabine Marcelis, Candy Cubes, 2014. Photo by Jeroen Verrecht.

Sabine Marcelis,“糖果立方体”，2014 年。图片来源于 Jeroen Verrecht。