Kunst, licht en publieke ruimte zijn mijn speelveld. De publieke ruimte zie ik als levend organisme. Een steeds veranderende omgeving met een enorme impact op het menselijk gedrag, op onze waarden en op ons handelen. Licht speelt hierin een essentiële rol. Met licht creëer ik, op de grens van kunst, wetenschap & techniek, installaties, in o.a. ziekenhuizen, pleinen, musea of festivals, in binnen- en buitenland.
Ik ben ambassadeur van de Light Challenge, vanwege mijn passie voor licht en het belang van licht in onze leefomgeving. Licht zie ik als metafoor, als visualisatie van het leven, uitwisseling van energie, als poëzie. Glowing Nature is een mooi actueel thema om natuurlijke lichtbronnen uit te diepen en het gebruik van artificieel licht te heroverwegen. Geleidelijk aan zijn we onze lichamelijke gevoeligheid voor natuurlijk licht verloren en in de avond is er een zekere ‘scheefheid’ van licht ontstaan.
Een suggestie voor de teams: Kijk bewust om je heen, onderzoek hoe je licht in je dagelijks leven beleeft en je deze zintuiglijke ervaringen kan toepassen in jullie zoektocht naar het licht.
Mijn naam is Titia Ex – Kunst, licht en publieke ruimte zijn mijn speelveld. De publieke ruimte zie ik als levend organisme. Een steeds veranderende omgeving met een enorme impact op ...
So honored to receive an Honorable Mention for Bunny Lights - part of the yearly Design AwardsBunny Lights symbolizes the Continuity of existence. With its mystery, history, nature and symbolism, the native rabbit is the perfect bearer for the centuries-long intertwining of man and beast in Heemskerk in the Netherlands. It is a landmark in the scenery and a beacon of the existence of man and animal in its wetlands.
My congratulations to the winners of 2020 and the other HonorableMentioned colleagues.
LIT Design Awards is an annual lighting design competition where all entries are voted on by a grand jury panel composed of experienced and prominent academics, professionals, press members, entrepreneurs and key people from the lighting design industry.These awards are created to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and lighting implementers and are envisioned to celebrate creativity and innovation in the fields of lighting products and applications.
With its mystery, history, nature and symbolism, the native rabbit is the perfect bearer for the centuries-long intertwining of man and beast in Heemskerk in the Netherlands. She symbolizes the continuity of existence. It is a landmark in the scenery and a beacon of the existence of man and animal i...
DutchCulture brengt internationale makers in beeld. Deze keer lichtkunstenaar Titia Ex.
Ruim 4000 Nederlandse makers en organisaties met internationale ambities gaan jaarlijks Buitengaats. DutchCulture brengt ze in een reeks interviews in beeld. Deze keer: lichtkunstenaar Titia Ex.
DutchCulture brengt makers in beeld die internationaal gaan. Deze keer lichtkunstenaar Titia Ex.
08/01/2020
Juicy Lights en Bunny Lights
08/01/2020
Bunny Lights
With its mystery, history, nature and symbolism, the native rabbit is the perfect bearer for the centuries-long intertwining of man and beast in Heemskerk in the Netherlands. She symbolizes the continuity of existence. It is a landmark in the scenery and a beacon of the existence of man and animal in its wetlands.
The design concerns a rabbit-shaped outer shape, divided into steel smooth discs of stainless steel with printed 'vertebrae' of recycled polycarbonate. These intervertebral vertebrae are transparent tubes in which LED is incorporated. Recordings of waves, recorded at various locations, including the sea nearby, alternate with each other, rippling, rough or with a reflection in the water.
Het inheemse konijn is met zijn mysterie, geschiedenis, natuur en symboliek de perfecte drager voor de eeuwenlange verstrengeling tussen mens en dier in Heemskerk. Ze symboliseert de continuïteit van het bestaan. Een baken in het landschap en het heem-zijn van mens en dier in haar waterrijke omgeving.
Along West Amsterdam’s Ten Kate market, a street often filled with food stalls, Titia Ex suspended six aerial sculptures, crafted in mirror-steel like ultra-fecund bunches of grapes. During daylight, these clusters, titled Juicy Lights, dimly reflect distorted fragments of the streetscape. After dark, they are activated by video projections and integrated leds to adorn the avenue like a necklace of dazzling jewels. They also tease wanderers by seeping drops of coloured light onto the road, creating oscillating puddles of radiance. Partly inspired by poet Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate’s 1866 poem The Creation, this lightwork exemplifies Titia Ex’s remarkable imagination and talents to choreograph light, form, time, space and atmosphere. Davina Jackson https://vimeo.com/252894202
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Titia Ex is an artist whose ideas are shaped by the experience of space. This means that she rarely produces work you can look at while it is there hanging immobile on the wall. Most of the works by Ex are experienced as they arise in space. You can adopt several standpoints vis-à-vis this work, and view it from various angles, by crossing the spaces in which the artist places her work. You can think what you like about it, because she allows you the space to do this.
Much of the work by Titia Ex is made for the public space, on plazas, on and inside buildings, in the city and the landscape, in traffic, in the midst of infrastructure and gardens, next to houses and offices. The meaning of her work must therefore be sought in the relationships it enters into with the surroundings. The history of that place or specific situation is important, but also the current use of the space, the variable ways of approaching that place. Titia Ex does not select a pre-existing work from her oeuvre for these public situations, but seeks out the exigency of imbuing these spaces with a special significance. She creates a new work to achieve this.
Her style is personal and as such it is distinctive. Applying a coherent and intrinsic methodology, she employs a clear and legible visual idiom. She might, for example, use a figurative interplay of lines in neon light. This means she immediately has to overcome something in the minds of viewers, who think they are familiar with the significance of her use of materials.Neon light is used for advertising in the entertainment industry, sometimes fairly dubious in character. Titia Ex does not immediately want to nullify the attraction of this in some politically correct manner. She sooner exploits that association to create an initial uncertainty, so that her work will be looked at critically. This results in the discovery that something else is intended, something more than a straightforward image with a simple message.
Viewed from a greater distance her work looks two-dimensional. That perception is soon undermined, however, because the lines in her work often consist of shimmering light. In close-up, these lines can also be diffracted three-dimensionally, and take on a different guise. The work moves around the viewer, it has a front and a rear, sometimes dissolving in a side-view and reappearing once you have passed it by. Two- and three-dimensional manifestations alternate. The agile and playful visual idiom employed by Ex is captivating and simultaneously slightly disturbing. After all, a light beacon in the distance is usually also a warning, a signal. Watch out for what you are about to encounter.
Her oeuvre now encompasses dozens of monumental works. It is difficult to gain a coherent overview, because these works stand dispersed at numerous locations across the Netherlands. This website is probably the most suitable way to provide an overview, bringing together several works in documentary form. However, it is primarily something to experience and perceive. Despite the usually straightforward vocabulary, in her work you find yourself in a visual maze of visual associations. There is no escape: it disappears in front of your eyes, because you no longer need an exit. It is a rich idiom. You play a film in your mind’s eye, making a montage of the images provided by Titia Ex that results in a coherent narrative for you personally. Anyone who sees the work of Ex can make sense of it for themselves by looking actively. Experience the work and be absorbed into its domain, its atmosphere.
You do not need to agree with a work of art in order to appreciate it. Titia Ex expresses how different standpoints are related. This work of art in Culemborg encapsulates her simple metaphor in the form of a dialogue:
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Do you like my hat?
- Well, not really.
- See you.
- See you.
There is no need to be at each other’s throat simply because you hold different opinions. You can accept each other as you are.
Interactive light monument for the heroes of the resistance. The monument: LOOM LIGHT is a tribute to Jan Zwartendijk and many other invisible heroes of resistance from the region during the Second World War. The impressive interactive lightwork marks 75 years of living in freedom.
“The work changes shape and moves with you. During the day, the monument reflects the sunlight. In the evening, a feast of lights is created referring to the Hanukkiah, in which the light is lit by an invisible hand for eight days. It is a tribute to Jan Zwartendijk and the countless invisibles who have engaged to save lives.” – Titia Ex
The story goes on... the light sculpture for Titia Ex
Everything about the project is custom made: starting with the design to the structure made of steel, the light leds, the shells 3D printed and now also the supports to make the connection between the steel and the shells.
Perfectly fitted, strongly made to carry the weight these supports are printed in translucent filament so that the light can shine right trough. By that we avoid any interruption in the light flow and prevent unwanted black spots.
Tommorrow we are continuing the project, so keep following us to see the progress.
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Together with our friends Colossus working on the art project for Titia Ex
This print project is starting to take shape, a shape off Colossus proportions! Together with our partner OMD3D we are able to handle all your projects, small or really really big. Stay tuned for this will become! Ex
And how about this? Slightly bigger & look at that surface design!✨ making the sun shine like a diamond which will become live together at Ex
