After nearly twenty-five years in the business, with the aim to highlight its commitment in supporting the new generation of creators, Arturo Alvarez Emotional Light announce its 1st Arturo Alvarez Young Talent Award. The challenge consists of designing a decorative interior lamp and the sole winner will receive a prize consisting of: – 2500 € – The possibility of seeing his own design produced and forming part of the new brand catalogue. The name of the creator of the design will be included in all of the company’s publications respecting the intellectual authorship of the design at all times. – A trip to Milan with Arturo Álvarez to present the company’s new designs at the “Fiera del Mobile Euroluce” in the spring of 2019. This includes a return air ticket, two nights’ hotel accommodation, and a pass for the event. The deadline for the presentation of entries is from 21 November 2017 to 23 March 2018. The finalists will be published on Arturo Alvarez website and social media on 17 April, and the winner will be announced in these channels on 24 April 2018. download terms and conditions Arturo Álvarez, designer an founder of the company, is an established recognized creator both inside and outside of Spain, by his conceptual contributions to the world of design lightening. He was born in Pontevedra, Spain, in 1964. From the beginning he develops an own style with strong personality. He handles shapes, volumes and light sources fluently in a simple and elegant way, masterfully mixing them and bringing a new vision of creative lighting, coming to conceive in the spaces surprising scenographic and light staging. Currently he continues to explore different lines of work and expression. There are three defined times in the career of Arturo Alvarez. In the early years he explores and works with figurative concepts based on nature. In a second time he progresses toward abstraction exploring simple geometric shapes without abandoning references to nature, it appears the female body, a theme that is repeated and which he keeps on researching along the years. Arturo Álvarez is currently developing new forms of expression, with light as his guiding thread and with the human being and its relations as the main subject. In the last ten years he has been conducting a comprehensive experimental and research work to develop his own materials for his lighting designs. It has developed SIMETECH®, a material of silicone mesh characterized by its visual beauty and luminosity. From its experimentation, is born the BALLET collection: its shapes are formed by the superposition or gathering of its vertexes, allowing freedom for the own flexibility of the material. The resulting volumes are fluid and natural due to the tension of the SIMETECH®. Its asymmetry makes its forms change depending on the point of view in a constant dance of light and shadows.
