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Welcome to Luckyland
Navn
Nathan Lartigue
Uddannelsesgrad
Professionsbachelor
Fagfelt
Design
Institut
Bygningskunst og Design
Program
Crafts in Glass and Ceramics
År
2024
With delicate intentions of expressing his very precious relationship with superstition, Lartigue Nathan is using the glass qualities combined with his appetite for sculpted glass to invite you to Luckyland, his kingdom of luck. Inspired by the venetian tradition, Lartigue Nathan´s chandelier is offering you a place to discuss freely about your own relation to superstition and symbols. Be welcome to Luckyland.
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"With this new approach towards chandeliers, I had the great want of taking my try making one I could play with by adding elements in relation with the superstition & luck. I imagined a chandelier that would not include any lights at the end of its branches, but symbols of luck. The point is to propose an art piece that would create a place for the reflexion about the place of the superstition in our society." _Lartigue Nathan.
Process pictures & portrait : I DO ART. https://www.idoart.dk
Chandelier "Welcome to Luckyland". 2024. | Photo : Peter Vinther
“ With his very baroque object, maximalistic, almost ostentatious, Lartigue Nathan drag the attention to put the light on the uncommon and discreet theme of the superstition. „
Since childhood times, I have loved curious, unknown, mysterious objects and symbols linked to the field of spirituality. In my work, I almost always let the influence of these ethnological details from civilisations’ thoughts and beliefs get a place in my artistic creative process.
Then, for my last project at the academy, I chose to work with people’s beliefs once more. This time through the superstition prism and the notion of the luck.
Any non-superstitious person can possibly describe trusting superstitions as an act of folklore or a «lower-religion» because of its lack of structure in the current society (at least in the West). This low consideration is leading some supertitous people to feel less comfortable sharing their beliefs or feeling judged/laughed at due to the global History of superstitious people being discriminated for their singular thoughts.
By being superstitious myself, I wanted to express a different sensible and surprising glance on different elements of the notion of luck through glass pieces. I wished to share a new view on the luck and its symbols thanks to iconographies representing the « luck », «the fortune» into an art piece that would be use as a communication medium to help me sharing my vision of it, as a catharsis.
Nathan's necklace : The number 13 all the time. | Photo : I DO ART.
Lartigue Nathan sculpting a glass "crossed fingers" hand - Glass blowing workshop of the academy. | Photo : I DO ART.
Lartigue Nathan. Royal Danish Academy. Bachelor project "Welcome to Luckyland". 2024. | Video : I DO ART Agency. (DK)
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