MOKA Light (2008) Design by Lampons

Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi was born in Milan and graduated as a surveyor in 1968. After three years of attending the faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Milan (he would have preferred the faculty of Architecture) he decided to stop studying because he wanted to be free to focus his curiosity on the most varied fields of creation. For a few years he worked at the family business (artistic foundry) where he learned how to work with plaster and epoxy resins for the creation of foundry models.

But the desire to live and work in a more creative and stimulating world led him to collaborate with an advertising photographer in 1976 and then to open his own studio in 1984. During this period, however, he also dedicated himself to the research and creation of wooden objects and lamps in a basement made available to him by the group "Le mani d'oro" (Golden Hands). where it coexists with acrylic paintings and trompe-l'oeil. The creation of objects in tune with the American world of the 40s and 50s is accompanied by the opportunity to meet Giuseppe Ciocca - director of the Kronos gallery in Pavia - and begins a collaboration that finally brings him into the market of sophisticated objects and to create a good clientele.

With the death of Giuseppe Ciocca, a period of stagnation begins for what concerns objects to the full advantage of photography and experimentation with 3D computer graphics. In 2001, the world of photography and graphics in general entered into a crisis and therefore photographic work has fallen to a minimum, hence the decision to return with new ideas and energy to what, after all, has always been the "game" most important and most fun thing in his life since he was a boy, that is, "BUILDING".
From the creation of his objects, Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi tries first of all to be amazed but also amused, everything is born and takes place in the head (even if now it often passes through an initial creation in 3D graphics), waking up in the morning is the magic moment in which all the pieces fall into place like in a puzzle that has been waiting to be seen and created for a long time.

The work is not focused on a single object at a time but on several pieces that grow in alternating phases, the last and final act is the happy realization that the finished object coincides perfectly with the mental image from which everything began.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1948
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists