Baldwin/Guggisberg Beyond Glass: Au-delà du verre - Hardcover

 
9788874396153: Baldwin/Guggisberg Beyond Glass: Au-delà du verre
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8874396155 ISBN 13: 9788874396153
Verlag: 5 CONTINENTS ED, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin met in 1979 as apprentices at the Orrefors glass factory in Sweden. Since then, the Swiss Guggisberg and American Baldwin have forged an intense partnership, resulting in a unique and unmistakable style that combines pure design and Scandinavian-inspired techniques together with the Venetian cold-working process battuto. From tableware to sculptural and monumental installations, including blown and cut pieces created for such esteemed glass manufacturers as Venini, Rosenthal, and Steuben, the work of Guggisberg and Baldwin is truly captivating. Vases are decorated with geometric wheel–engraved patterns; glass spheres become mobiles or sparkling, brightly colored installations; and groups of oblong, almost organically shaped sculptures celebrate the incredible elasticity of glass. This new book presents the full scope of their work in lush illustrations.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tina Oldknow is head curator of the modern and contemporary glass collections at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. James Yood teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Isabelle Naef-Galuba is the director of the Ariana Museum, Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass, Geneva.

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Artists and master glassblowers of international repute, Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg have explored all the techniques associated with glass production to develop their own captivating style made up of shapes and colours, drawing out the very essence of light and turning it into form. Their experiments have produced extraordinarily effective combinations, such as a Scandinavian-inspired glass coated with layers of fire-blown and coloured material decorated using a cold-engraved process ofVenetian origin known as bottuto. The legacy of three decades of work is a large spectrum of creations ranging from tableware to installations of a sculptural and even monumental nature.Vases decorated with vaguely geo-metric abstract patterns, spheres arranged into mobiles or forming extravagant installations, clus-ters of sentries and guards celebrating the elasticity of matter: all works that capture our gaze with the magnetism of their poetic power Tucked away among these highly original works is a special category of pieces: boats, loaded with amphorae and objects culled from memory, evoking the migrations and the cultural stepping stones which mankind has left behind over the ages, a manna which posterity can appropriate and use to create a fresh page of history. Passionate about every facet of their art, Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg have also made their mark in the design world, creating models for illustrious firms, such as Venini, Rosenthal and Steuben. Published in collaboration with the Ariana Museum, Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass, this book displays the present creations of Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg, while offering a lavishly illustrated overall view of their prolific production. Five critical essays provide different viewpoints on how this exceptional pair of artists approach their work and offers insights into their way of life and the philosophy guiding them ever forward; indeed, beyond glass.

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Verlag
5 CONTINENTS ED
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
8874396155
ISBN 13 
9788874396153
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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