Amoire is about the collaboration of art, design and materialization. A colour, a texture or even a simple shape can initiate curiosity that fuels inspiration. Amoire provides architects and designers with both inspirational elements and products that are distinctly different from what they have experienced before. We invite the design industry to explore with us.
Ralph Russo - Creative Director / Artist
ARTIST'S STATEMENT - Ralph Remo Russo - Gallery Amoire
To say that the convergence of art, design and technology has exposed us to a rich, new source of inspiration, is a gross understatement. Their influence has re-energized a powerful exploratory curiosity in material purposes, properties and alternative uses. This is what I believe stimulates true breakthrough inventive creativity.
I am fascinated by the rich vibrant visual effects that light, volume, form and texture create. I started experimenting with various materials such as glass, acrylics and even laser cut hardened corrugated cardboard. The material that gave me the most attitude and consequently the greatest inspiration was stainless steel fabric, mesh and wire. Light reacts unpredictably when it’s traveling through the stainless steel fabric forms and rich textures. This is what initiates the vivid, gravity defying volumes we can see, touch and view 360 degrees.
My two constant creative objectives are to first experiment with a material to discover it’s personality and artistic properties. Secondly, to fashion these new creative insights to produce art that will re-awaken the child curiosity in the viewer. Sculpted forms and textures are geometrically orchestrated to re-act to light and ambient motion as it transforms into a tangible holographic like feature. You instantly know when this happens because the person viewing the art tends to sway back and forth to fully experience the unique layered optical effects.
To say that the convergence of art, design and technology has exposed us to a rich, new source of inspiration, is a gross understatement. Their influence has re-energized a powerful exploratory curiosity in material purposes, properties and alternative uses. This is what I believe stimulates true breakthrough inventive creativity.
I am fascinated by the rich vibrant visual effects that light, volume, form and texture create. I started experimenting with various materials such as glass, acrylics and even laser cut hardened corrugated cardboard. The material that gave me the most attitude and consequently the greatest inspiration was stainless steel fabric, mesh and wire. Light reacts unpredictably when it’s traveling through the stainless steel fabric forms and rich textures. This is what initiates the vivid, gravity defying volumes we can see, touch and view 360 degrees.
My two constant creative objectives are to first experiment with a material to discover it’s personality and artistic properties. Secondly, to fashion these new creative insights to produce art that will re-awaken the child curiosity in the viewer. Sculpted forms and textures are geometrically orchestrated to re-act to light and ambient motion as it transforms into a tangible holographic like feature. You instantly know when this happens because the person viewing the art tends to sway back and forth to fully experience the unique layered optical effects.