Light Cuts

It has been more than fifty years since Lucio Fontana, traveling the time of contemporary art, presented to the public his spatial concepts, canvases slashed by cuts that symbolically opened the two-dimensional space and created a crack through which have a glimpse of the absolute.

It was back in the ‘60s, a time when an artist reacted to the most suggestive of his obsessions with extreme gestures, holes, slashes, cuts that caused an earthquake and pave the way for the whole contemporary art to which we are used to nowadays. The fascination with artwork able to oblige people to reflect, the love of gestures both violent and elegant, the love of space is the first concrete emotion that strikes whoever enters this new, modern record and many more music-related things’ store, which opened in Lecce, in the central and crowded Piazza Mazzini. The project, curated by Enrico Surdo and carried out by Kubico L.d.t, has a very simple facility that meets the needs of any commercial activity thanks to a careful organization and distribution, thus behind a transparent window that allows to get a glimpse of the interior space through the items on display, is placed a Corian case adorned with the Youm logo, graphically elegant, embossed and emphasized by light effect. The whole shop is black, therefore the space is canceled and then reinvented by using light cuts throughout the upper part of the walls and the ceiling; they represent both lighting and decoration, function and aesthetics that-together- trace an essential interpretation of the space.

A series of white exhibitors are built into the wall and neatly display all the products for sale. In the main hall there is a small staircase leading to a lofted area, which consists of a room completely realized by using a white-varnished metal grid, that becomes an aperture able to separate this small corner destined to vinyl records to be listened with headphones, without isolating it. As to say: music archeology and architecture archeology combined, in short, the music factory.

Every time, a project can be “something else”, it can be interpreted and faced as an occasion to reflect, to experiment and to hand the World a portion of our passions, filtered by experience, and whenever that happens it is a Kubico work.

YUOMUSIC – LECCE