You’re So Vain: Nonesiste’s Motherboard Mirror
By Jenny Rector on Friday, April 24th, 2009
Motherboard. Designed by Romolo Stanco for Nonesiste.
What is a mirror? “By definition, [it] is an object which copies reality, transports it into a different space, [and] transforms what is three-dimensional into two-dimensional.” according to designer Romolo Stanco of nonesiste design Lab. Interested in the interaction between the subject and the object, as evident in his previous works including V/AGRA, and intrigued by the idea of questioning the functional value of the mirror, Romolo embarked on a new project: Motherboard.
“[It] is a mirror which alters the reflected image, contaminating it and thus rendering the image different from the original…[it] represents a transfiguring mirror or, better yet, an instrument for interactive reflection.” In physical terms, Motherboard is a crystal mirror with laser etchings made inside the glass slab rather than on the mirror’s surface, rendering them untouchable. The etchings are made using a technological laser that disintegrated the “singular glass crystals within the sheet which forms the mirror,” the designer explains. The etchings are circuits “an intersection of lines borrowed from the world of electronics, a metaphor for connections, global systems, [and] electronic systems for common use which few of us understand the real technical sense.” The circuits effectively lose their function, “transformed into organic traces [and] imprisoned… “reflected and frozen inside the mirror.”
“It is an instrument for reflection,” according to the designer, both literally and conceptually. Motherboard continues an ongoing theme of dynamic action and interaction within Nonesiste’s work. Stanco references his chair “LaDinDon” which changes according to its use. Another of his products, V/IAGRA is a “responsive” agent of motion, as the name suggests, which rises up when turned on (the light fixture, that is). Motherboard is a limited edition piece produced for Edizioni Galleria Colombari in three versions: rectangular, square or circular.
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Hey Mike, I would have to agree… more of an art-piece than a bathroom mirror. Definitely worth showing off, but the question is: are you going with circular, square or rectangular??
And where exactly do you plan buying these? Their just concepts from what i understand…
They are available for purchase through the gallery: Edizioni Galleria Colombari… see the following link for more information
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425957806/425114098/romolo-stanco-mirror-motherboard.html
What does this exactly do? Can someone explain?
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Hey Beaty— just seeing your question now. It doesn’t “do” anything beyond serving as a metaphor - the circuit etchings, within the glass slab rather than on the surface, serve as a metaphor, “imprisoned” within the mirror. It’s “conceptual” not “functioning” if that makes sense! Thanks
This is so sick, my friend and I are grabbing one of these for our apartment. Although I don’t imagine it will end up in the bathroom, it’d be a shame not to show it off :)