An artist in Los Angeles creates amazing lighting fixtures entirely from non-working bicycle parts. The creator transforms technical junk into huge chandeliers and other lighting items.
In honor of these works, for you, an article was written and a video of the entire step-by-step assembly process was shot.
Carolina Fontoura Alzaga is an artist who invents masterpiece chandeliers and lamps from bicycle parts. The most complex ones contain several hundred details. For example, in her last work there are about 400 chains and many discs and screws..
The latest Alzaga chandelier is named Connect-27. On a well-assembled luminaire, each chain is assembled by hand.
Here is another piece that now adorns the F.P. Journe in Los Angeles.
Many of Alzaga’s clients buy her works into their homes. Carolina has already produced 60 chandeliers, lamps and a bar. All items are taken from discarded bicycles.
The artist was born in Mexico City but grew up in Denver, where she received her BA in painting and digital arts. Lived in a house with 12 other people, calling them a community, interacting and sharing resources.
Once the artist, together with her neighbors, wandered into a bicycle store. A few years later, when it was time for her dissertation, the girl came up with the idea to create a chandelier from bicycle parts. The project won Best in Show.
She then moved to Mexico City, where the gallery owner ordered her a chandelier for his premises. He liked the work so much that Alzaga was asked to hold a solo exhibition.
The creative concept is the use of vehicle parts. Using a secret combination of techniques in assembling discarded bicycles, a real masterpiece of art is created.
According to Carolina Fontoura Alzaga, she likes the fact that the fate of the material is changing. Each chain tells about its origin. They all come to the artist from different parts of Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Imagine the story behind a chandelier with hundreds of chains..
