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Matteo Messervy
Matteo Messervy (born 1971 in Paris, France) is a French artist and Lighting designer known for large-scale art installations and lighting design works using elemental materials such as light and water to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1997 he established Atelier Matteo Messervy in Montreuil, a suburb of Paris, in a former textile factory. Messervy is best known for his Monumental installation in the Hotel de Ville, Paris’city hall employing light, sculpture, projection and sound. Messervy also designed significant commercial projects in The Centre Pompidou and the airport Charles de Gaulle in Paris. Matteo Messervy was raised in France, Guatemala and Spain. He studied Design at the École Supérieure d‘Arts Graphiques Penninghen in Paris. Recently Messervy opened his studio in Asia and is currently working on projects in India and Thailand. The core of the Artist's Philosophy is that “Every city can return to it’s splendour by creating a refurbished vision of the achievements of it’s inhabitants. The urban experience is enhanced when there is a reference to the past”.

* MARVEL EDGE, Pune, India (work in progress)
The french conceptual light-designer Matteo Messervy has won the design competition for the Marvel Edge Building in Pune, India. This next generation of cutting-edge, technologically-advanced and sustainable buildings, presenting a new vision of work and commercial spaces, will be illuminated by Matteo Messervy and his team of engineers. The nine stories, 36 meters high building spreading over a 1 420 000 square feet area, masterfully incorporates : - Offices, conference and meeting rooms, event spaces - A 30 Keys Luxury Boutique Hotel with private plunge pools - A rooftop recreational area featuring a fine dining restaurant, a bar, a pool, a Gym&Spa - Innovative green spaces with eight Sky Gardens running across the entire circumference of the building

* THE OPUS, Bangkok, Thailand
The Opus Building clearly stands out in the urban setting of its surrounding neighbourhood : Thonglor. An area fast becoming a hotspot in Bangkok, known for its excellent choice of fashionable and upmarket residential, commercial and entertainment experiences, catering to a trendy and vibrant crowd of both locals and expatriates. The lighting effects would attempt to breathe life inside The Opus walls, setting it aside from the usually static nature of most constructions by lending to the building façade the lively, steady and intimate movement of a heartbeat when seen from the outside. It must transform a place into an outstanding entity. We aim at visually connect and harmonize the façade with the passers by, bringing out the outstanding nature and quality of the place, satisfying both performance and aesthetics. We want to create a playful interaction between people and the building’s façade with the use of a specifically developed smartphone app, through which people would be enabled to literally connect to the façade’s LED lighting display, and play with it following a precise scenario. This kind of interactive visual concept with mobile devices would be a world premiere. Designed by Matteo Messervy and programmed by the french based tech. firm REMU, specialized in high-end interactive and multimedia scenographies.

* Embassy of France in Thailand
Following a call to project for the embassy of France in Thailand, the artist and lighting designer Matteo Messervy was among the five designers chosen to present a concep- tual lighting design for the french embassy’s new premises in Bangkok. The building’s prismatic shaped monolithic appearance is accentuated by a sleek, icy white Corian cladded façade. The material and aesthetic quality of this type of solid surface lenders itself perfectly to colorful and creative designs. The lighting design proposed by Matteo Messervy is an invitation to travel and discovery. Through shadows and lights, he tries to reconnect with a cultural past through a certain kind of literary genre : travel literature. To materialize this concept, two types of works would be carried out: 1) A light-installation in the form of a projection on the building’s main façade representing silhouettes of people reading extracts of literary texts : The smooth, angular, white surface of this contemporary piece of architecture provides an excellent platform for the projection of images . 2) Illumination of the building’s base at ground level : The aim would be to emulate the illumination generated from candles through the use of artificial lighting. 16 External LED lights would be fitted on the ground, spreading along the building’s dark granite ground-floor base that constitutes the bottom of the façade. From each LED would emanate a light beam directed from the ground up, towards the ceiling of the recessed alcove, on either side of the main entrance the building. A pre- programmed DMX LED controler would create a movement in each beam of light, like a rhythm, a respiration simulating the flickering light of a candle flame.

* Boutique Louis Vuitton, Printemps-Haussmann
In the wake of the opening of its new flagship store inside the famous Parisian retail landmark, The Printemps-Haussmann, Louis Vuitton commissioned Matteo Messervy to create a monumental masterpiece that would bring a strong and unique visual signature to the space. The artist conceived a sculpture made of intricately intertwined laces of metal representing a miniature global network of quantum universes, punctuated by crystal balls delicately lining up like planets on this ultra connected cosmogonic grid. The whole ensemble seems to be gravitating around the center of the masterpiece which bears the luxury brand’s internationnaly famous initials “LV” in its center. A nod at the hyper-connected world in which we live, with fashion and luxury as its epicenter.

* NOTIFY Showroom, Ron Arad
Matteo Messervy was commissioned by architect Ron Arad to assist him in transforming a 1930s factory in central Milano, Italy, into a modern showroom for Notify jeans, in which to exhibit its collections each season, The lighting design concept for Notify shop in Milan aims to offer the visitor a subtle and refined sensory pathway that would culminate by the central sculpture of Ron Arad. Sweet and moving, the light Concept breathes life into the volumes and reveals the architecture. The play of light on the main sculpture marks the identity of the lighting project, a sort of leitmotiv carrying the harmony and coherence of the whole project.

* ATELIER NOTIFY, Zaha Hadid
The Atelier Notify fashion retail space in Paris was designed by architect Zaha Hadid, who asked Matteo Messervy to conceive and implement the lighting design of the Notify brand’s shop interiors. The aim was to highlight the fluidity, originality and elegance of the interiors architetural forms, outlining the powerful and dynamic flow of their curves. When entering this place, the client must get the feeling of being welcomed in a world of harmony, calm and serenity. The lighting effects would create a cocoon-like atmosphere, warm and intimate. Bringing the consumers to an entirely new sensory experience. Such qualities being a trademark in the lighting designer’s works and ethics.