REVIEWS BY STUDENTS: Barragán

Hernando Barragán

Acumulated Transparency

http://barraganstudio.com/b/?p=83

By Iltze Bautista Castillo and Gabriela Cárdenas Ramírez

 Hernando Barragán is a Colombian artist and designer who divides his time between the Openwork studio in New York and the Department of Architecture and Design at the University of los Andes, Colombia. He studied Systems Engineering and Computing at the same university and a master in Interactive Design for the Interaction Design Institute of Ivrea, Italy. 

His first exhibition was at the Museum of Modern Art of Bogota, Colombia in 2002, with the piece Hipercubo/ok/. Since then his pieces have been shown in countries like Canada, Korea, Italy and Spain. He has received numerous prizes, like the Association of Sustainability and Architecture, Ars Electrónica and the Latin-American Biennial of Design. Generally his work focuses on the relations between public/users and the piece. 

The piece that we are interested in analyzing is en.light.en Interactives Lamps, which was realized in the Barragan Studio during 2009 and won the prize of design Pencil of Steel on the following year. It works with seven lamps controlled by the program Wiring. [1] This piece, seeks to re-accommodate the form in which we relate to the daily objects, working with the limits between the unique work and massive product. As well the idea of an original piece of art and design product. It is a set of eight lamps of simple appearance, which daily functions are inserted in a playful sense, but technologically complex.

NOTES

 [1] Program that combines hardware and opened software, which serves to illustrate in the physical world ideas and concepts. Barragán began the development of the project in the Interaction Design Institute and was continued by a small group of persons in the University of los Andes.