MARCUS TREMONTO, the artist/designer started his New York based design studio, Treluce studios, with wife and partner Monica Tremonto in 2002. He has received international recognition and acclaim for his innovative limited edition ‘Lightworks’ pieces. Following his 2007 one man show at Phillips de Pury in New York, he was chosen for the coveted Swaroski Crystal Palace in Milan 2008. He holds a Masters in painting and a BS in Mathematics and Physics.
The Getty series of designs focus on image, structure and illusion ; working with the materials to create dimensions and layers, carefully composing forms that seem as if they carry on into the space freelyand indefinitely. When off these pieces simply reflect the environment around but turned on they reveal a new world and dimension beyond both sides. Expanding on the architectural perspective of the paper Landscape series, first exhibited in Milan for Salone de Mobile 2009, the new series of work further explores the continuing use of light source as a material to express form and shape whilst utilizing new techniques and manufacturing processes.
The Getty series of designs focus on image, structure and illusion; working with the materials to create dimensions and layers, carefully composing forms that seem as if they carry on into the space freely and indefinitely. When off these pieces simply reflect the environment around but turned on they reveal a new world and dimension beyond from both sides.
When designing a piece out of carbon fibre for Patrick Brillet, Marcus Tremonto decided to celebrate and utilize the best of the material true physical properties, its strengh and lightness. The complexity of curves and required thinness could not be duplicated in any other material while maintaining its ability to support itself completely.
We are working on another monumental hanging light and a table , again keeping in mind these same properties to achieve illusions in form and weight.
HEXALIGHTS is a mass of Hexahedron cubes, paying homage to the designer’s love of structure and architecture. This collection, which explores cartoon imagery employs new printing techniques using color that applied to light transform flat (only 1.5mm thin) imagery into 3-D illusions.
Further pushing illusion through the relation of manipulating 2D and 3D imaging. The Plug Light is an illustration based on origin, with inspiration from French Pop Comics of the 60’s , which so well delineated what was necessary to translate the image ;the suggestion of a solid form through simple line gesture. By manipulating and exaggerating size and form, the work forces the viewer to re-examine, question and consider the surroundings in which it exists as part of the piece, much like a cell in a comic or frame that tells a story.
Vackpack which was inspired by vacuum packed products, allows the servient material of the packing to be integral in the form and design.
When designing a piece out of carbon fibre for Patrick Brillet, Marcus Tremonto decided to celebrate and utilize the best of the material true physical properties, its strength and lightness. The complexity of curves and required thinness could not be duplicated in any other material while maintaining its ability to support itself completely. We are working on another monumental hanging light and a table , again keeping in mind these same properties to achieve illusions in form and weight.
