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Marcelo Suro grasps a playful route on lamp design with The Pink Robots Won
The ‘Pink Robots Won’ collection
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Marcelo Suro grasps a playful route on lamp design with The Pink Robots Won

The vibrant collection by Marcelo Suro transposes lamp design into a theoretical realm of inanimate objects.

by STIRpad
Published on : Feb 18, 2023

Mexican designer Marcelo Suro crafts product designs as the convergence of contrary concepts – questioning notions of interaction, symbiosis and transmutation. “Through my designs, I seek to explore and continue to develop this design language…I look forward to see how this visual language can be translated into different mediums, processes and finishes,” shares Suro. Currently residing in Savannah GA, graduated from the Industrial Design Program at Savannah College of Arts and Design in 2022, Suro has showcased his bespoke lighting design at the MUAC - UNAM exhibition last year. His designs have also been exhibited internationally at the Milan Design Week, Campamento Design Fair, the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño festival, the Albergue Transitorio showroom, and Stage 4 in the Isola Design District, among others.

Abstract, subtle, colourful and functional encompass the foundation for Suro’s design language. From traditional ceramic practices to sandblasted 975 silver his products range from lamp designs, abstracting the concept of lighting design to wearable designs establishing a symbiotic relationship between the wearer and object. Lighting design by Suro touted – FOSA lamp is a symbolic manifestation of a blob of material in a permanent state of transmutation crafted in colour-glazed Faenza ceramic and Abeam lamps juxtapose the strength of light and fragility of ceramics crafted in colour-glazed Baja ceramic. Product designs by Suro touted - Symbiosis ring made with sandblasted 975 silver represents the intimate interaction and coexistence of space between multiple entities and QUI an ice bucket made to explore and question the way we interact with everyday objects prepared using colour-glazed Gres ceramic.

Suro’s latest lighting design endeavour is brought to fruition with the ‘The Pink Robots Won’ collection which gives character to an ordinary floor lamp. “The Pink Robots Won attempts to convey a living personality or entity while at the same time performing and functioning as a floor lamp, which in some instances can be perceived as an inanimate and lifeless object,” explains Suro. The ceramic lamps stand on three limbs with a singular illumination unit as the eye of the lamp if it were an animate object. Slip cast in low-temperature ceramic and glazed monochromatic tonalities subtly accentuate the three distinct components of this eclectic structure. Available in a mélange of soft pastel colours, a slight lean in the form arouses a sense of amusement – is it standing or about to fall?

The materiality of ceramic poses a challenge accomplished by pointing the exact window between dry enough and steady enough to be moulded together. After mastering the art of ceramic sculptural design , Suro has embarked on developing a new series of pieces in cast bronze and fuse-coloured glass displayed at the brand's gallery representative Ballista in Mexico City. Designs by Marcelo Suro are an extension of his idiosyncratic thoughts behind everyday objects transfused into playful pieces.

Text by Ria Jha

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